Abhijan
Director: Satyajit Ray
Genre: Art film, Drama
Year: 1962
Country: India
Language: Bengali Language
Starring: Soumitra Chatterjee, Waheeda Rehman, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Gyanesh Mukherjee, Charuprakash Ghosh, Rabi Ghosh, Arun Roy
Abhijan (অভিযান) is a 1962 Bengali film directed by the Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray.
The filming of Abhijan began by the first half of 1961 when Bijoy Chatterjee asked Satyajit Ray to write a script on a popular Bengali novel of the same name by Tarashankar Bandopadhyay. Ray took up the job happily as he wrote scripts (or directed music) for various Bengali film for money. At the time his one of the most intriguing film Kanchenjungha was being shot at Darjiling. After the heartbreaking box office failure (both in home and away ) Ray found himself "anxious to reach out to a wider audience." Even at this point it was for Bijoy Chatterjee the script was being written, Ray had no idea of making the film himself, much like the other notable film not wholeheartedly made by Ray, Chiriyakhana.
Ray got involved into the film when they went to the famous hill-spot Dubrajpur in Birbhum not much away from bolpur shantiniketan. It was then that the looming (almost as a recurring motif ) Mama Bhagne pahar was assimilated into the films backbone. As a result we see that the motif of human being with their baggage of sin and adultery will be symbolised into the stone pillar. When Ray further
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