GANASHATRU (1989)
DIRECTOR
Satyajit Ray
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Satyajit Ray basado en la obra de Henrik Ibsen En folkefiende
CAST
Satya Banerjee
Dhritiman Chatterjee .... Nishrith Gupta
Soumitra Chatterjee .... Dr. Ashok Gupta
Subhendu Chatterjee .... Biresh
Dipankar Dey .... Haridas Bagghi
Vishwa Guha Takurta .... Ranen Haldar
Ruma Guha Thakurta .... Maya Gupta
Manoj Mitra
Gobinda Mukherjee
Mamata Shankar .... Indrani Gupta
Rajaram Yagnik
MÚSICA ORIGINAL
Satyajit Ray
FOTOGRAFIA
Barun Raha
MONTAJE
Dulal Dutta
SINOPSIS
[quote]"Ganashatru", an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People", went on the floors with certain differences that a Ray watcher could easily distinguish. The director's son, Sandip (himself a good filmmaker today), had graduated from being a mere, though alert, observer to an active cameraman. Ray told one of his friends, "thank God for Babu (Sandip). He knows exactly what I want".
The master's biographer, Andrew Robinson, says: "Ray himself now spent most of his time sitting down, watching and listening, getting up only to look through the camera or, occasionally, to demonstrate a point to an actor. Often, he seemed less in evidence than he had earlier".
Yet, nobody, not even his arch critics, could say that his absorption in this movie was less than total. He made important alterations and guided his cast with usual patience and affection. And when his baritone voice cried out "cut" at the end of a take, one could not miss the fact that the man was still in full command.
Ray changed Ibsen's play to make it contemporary. It is 1989. It is a small town, close to Kolkata, where Dr. Ashok Gupta (excellently played by Soumitra Chatterjee in his fourteenth role for Ray) heads a hospital, owned by a trust which also runs a temple. An outbreak of jaundice in the town leads the doctor to conclude that the temple's holy water ("Charanamrita") is to blame, the result of shoddy pipe-laying work when the place was built.
But the doctor's motive is questioned by his own brother, who heads the trust. Gupta's credentials as a Hindu are at stake, because few are inclined to believe that the water - which contains sacred basil leaves -can ever be contaminated.
Robinson makes an apt observation here. "Once again, Ray has accurately sensed the mood of the times in selecting 'Ganashatru' - not just in India, where the scientific attitude has a tenuous hold, and religious fanaticism is just below the surface of democratic debate, but all over the world. It is, after all, no more irrational for Hindus to believe that 'charanamrita' is always free from germs than it is to believe that AIDS is God's curse on Man".
"Ganashatru" was, and continues to be, a provocative experience, the like of which only a Ray could have handled with ease and without causing a riotous situation.[/quote]The Hindu dated March 2 2001
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DIRECTOR
Satyajit Ray
GUIÓN
Satyajit Ray basado en la obra de Henrik Ibsen En folkefiende
CAST
Satya Banerjee
Dhritiman Chatterjee .... Nishrith Gupta
Soumitra Chatterjee .... Dr. Ashok Gupta
Subhendu Chatterjee .... Biresh
Dipankar Dey .... Haridas Bagghi
Vishwa Guha Takurta .... Ranen Haldar
Ruma Guha Thakurta .... Maya Gupta
Manoj Mitra
Gobinda Mukherjee
Mamata Shankar .... Indrani Gupta
Rajaram Yagnik
MÚSICA ORIGINAL
Satyajit Ray
FOTOGRAFIA
Barun Raha
MONTAJE
Dulal Dutta
SINOPSIS
[quote]"Ganashatru", an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People", went on the floors with certain differences that a Ray watcher could easily distinguish. The director's son, Sandip (himself a good filmmaker today), had graduated from being a mere, though alert, observer to an active cameraman. Ray told one of his friends, "thank God for Babu (Sandip). He knows exactly what I want".
The master's biographer, Andrew Robinson, says: "Ray himself now spent most of his time sitting down, watching and listening, getting up only to look through the camera or, occasionally, to demonstrate a point to an actor. Often, he seemed less in evidence than he had earlier".
Yet, nobody, not even his arch critics, could say that his absorption in this movie was less than total. He made important alterations and guided his cast with usual patience and affection. And when his baritone voice cried out "cut" at the end of a take, one could not miss the fact that the man was still in full command.
Ray changed Ibsen's play to make it contemporary. It is 1989. It is a small town, close to Kolkata, where Dr. Ashok Gupta (excellently played by Soumitra Chatterjee in his fourteenth role for Ray) heads a hospital, owned by a trust which also runs a temple. An outbreak of jaundice in the town leads the doctor to conclude that the temple's holy water ("Charanamrita") is to blame, the result of shoddy pipe-laying work when the place was built.
But the doctor's motive is questioned by his own brother, who heads the trust. Gupta's credentials as a Hindu are at stake, because few are inclined to believe that the water - which contains sacred basil leaves -can ever be contaminated.
Robinson makes an apt observation here. "Once again, Ray has accurately sensed the mood of the times in selecting 'Ganashatru' - not just in India, where the scientific attitude has a tenuous hold, and religious fanaticism is just below the surface of democratic debate, but all over the world. It is, after all, no more irrational for Hindus to believe that 'charanamrita' is always free from germs than it is to believe that AIDS is God's curse on Man".
"Ganashatru" was, and continues to be, a provocative experience, the like of which only a Ray could have handled with ease and without causing a riotous situation.[/quote]The Hindu dated March 2 2001
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