Director: Satyajit Ray
Screenplay: Satyajit Ray
Cinematographer: Barun Raha
Editing: Dulal Dutta
Sound: Sujit Sarkar
Art Director: Ashoke Bose
Music: Satyajit Ray
Cast.: Utpal Dutt, Mamta Shankar, Deepankar De, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Robi Ghosh
Production: NFDC
Year: 1993
DVD, Color, 110 min,
OV Bengali, French subtitles
With kind support of Indian embassy in Paris
Anila receives a strange letter. Her uncle Manomohan Mitra, who has come back after 35 years, wants to spend a few days at her place in Calcutta. She does not remember him at all. Who is this visitor? Is he an impostor as her husband seems to believe, a magician as her son thinks? Manomohan tells the peculiar story of his life among the last tribes from India and the world, his trips, the lifestyle he chose.
Isn’t this uncle fond of cave painting (incarnated by Utpal Dutt) like the film- maker himself, whose last film is Agantuk? Charming, with a sense of humor, educated, loved by children, he looks at the world around him with a deep humanist eye.
