Ghare Baire
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Ghare Bairey...Bengali
Ghare Baire (transl. The Home and the World) is a 1984 Indian Bengali-language romantic drama film directed and written by Satyajit Ray. .
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghare_Baire_(film)
The film is based on Rabindranath Tagore's novel of the same name, and stars
Soumitra Chatterjee,
Victor Banerjee,
Swatilekha Chatterjee and Jennifer Kendal.
Wiki
The film has a complex portrayal of several themes including nationalism, women emancipation, spiritual and materialistic take on life, tradition versus modernism, and others.
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The story is set in 1907 on the estate of the rich and influential Bengali noble Nikhilesh "Nikhil" Choudhary (Victor Banerjee) in Sukhsayar.
In the chaotic aftermath of Lord Curzon's partition of Bengal into Muslim and Hindu states, the Swadeshi movement is trying to impose a boycott of foreign goods by claiming that imports are at the root of Indian poverty.
Nikhilesh was the first in his family to receive a Western education and he has modern views.
He married Bimala (Swatilekha Sengupta).
He appointed Miss Gilby to teach his wife Bimala Piano and English songs.
He lives happily with his wife Bimala and his widowed sister-in-law until the appearance of his friend, a revolutionist and a strong supporter of the Swadeshi movement, Sandip (Soumitra Chatterjee).
Sandip comes to Sukhsayar to convince Nikhilesh and the villagers to renounce foreign goods in exchange for the Swadeshi ones.
Sandip, a passionate and active man, is a contradiction to the peace-loving and somewhat passive Nikhilesh.
Nikhilesh introduces him to his wife Bimala.
However, Sandip feels infatuated with Bimala.
He insists she meets him daily and decided to stay in Nikhilesh's bungalow.
He easily attracts innocent and unsuspecting Bimala.
Meanwhile, Miss Gilby is hit by a student who was associated with the Swadeshi movement when she was returning from the Church.
Because of this, she decides to leave Sukhsayar.
Although Nikhilesh figures out what is happening between Sandip and Bimala through his sister-in-law and close associates, he is mature and grants Bimala the freedom to grow and explore what she wants in life, as their marriage was arranged when she was a girl.
Further, Nikhilesh tells Bimala that he would like her to have a life not only inside the home but outside of it as well — a controversial stance in 1916 when the novel was written.
Sandip convinces Bimala to support the Swadeshi movement and urges her to convince Nikhilesh too about the movement who is against the Swadeshi movement because it is not affordable for the poor.
According to Nikhilesh, poor people can't afford the movement because foreign goods are cheap and have better quality than the Swadeshi ones and they would suffer if foreign goods are banned.
Thus, he doesn't ban foreign goods in Sukhsayar.
Although Sandip doesn't concede defeat and starts to make some sinister plan when local poor Muslim tenants also refused to stop buying and selling foreign goods.
He creates groups that would often snatch foreign items from the local Muslim traders and bribe the local administrator to sink the boats carrying the foreign goods in Sukhsayar.
This results in the growing hatred between Hindus and Muslims.
Muslim preachers from other areas started to take benefit of these problems between Hindus and Muslims of Sukhsayar and started to preach hatred to poor Muslim peasants against Hindus.
Sandip demands money from Bimala for the Swadeshi cause.
Unsuspecting Bimala gives him the required money but found later that he had demanded more money than required.
She also found that he is creating problems in Sukhsayar.
Bimala ultimately realizes that it is indeed her husband Nikhilesh who actually loves her rather than Sandip.
She regrets her actions in front of Nikhilesh who forgives her.
In Sukhsayar, riots broke out between Muslims and Hindus.
Nikhilesh decides to go himself and stop the riots between the two groups.
Meanwhile, Sandip leaves Sukhsayar by train as soon as he hears about the riots.
In the morning, to the horror of Bimala and all the people close to Nikhilesh, Nikhilesh is found dead and Bimala becomes a widow.
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