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''Bari Theke Paliye'' (English-language title: ''Runaway'' or ''The Runaway'') is a 1958
coming-of-age Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult. The specific age at which this transition takes place varies between societies, as does the nature of the change. It can be a simple legal convention or can ...
Bengali film by director
Ritwik Ghatak Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (; 4 November 19256 February 1976) was a noted Indian film director, screenwriter, and playwright. Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers Satyajit Ray, Tapan Sinha and Mrinal Sen, his cinema is primarily rememb ...
. It stars Parambhattarak Lahiri, Kali Bannerjee, Nripati Chatterjee, Padma Devi, and Gyanesh Mukherjee. This film was directed by alternative Indian filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak in
Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
(then Calcutta) in 1958. The plot is about a misbehaving boy who runs away from his village and goes to Calcutta.


Plot

Kanchan, all of eight years old is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, i.e. Kolkata till he reaches there. But the glimpses of reality are harsher and the victims he meets give him a different view of the city. He gets to know the dialectics of life in the city of joy, love and hate, honesty and dishonesty. He meets the small and loving girl Mini and her family, folk singers, street hawkers, footpath magicians, beggars, thieves. He himself has to struggle for survival and experiences life as it is, only to go back to his village home. This time as a mature person he realises that his father is no demon after all, but yet another victim struggling with poverty and still a loving father.


Soundtrack

* ''Ore–ore Nore–nore, Shonkure... Bulbul Bhaja...'' * ''O, Ami Onek, Ghuriya... Koilkatta'' * ''Mago Amay Deko Na Ko Aar''


See also

* List of works of Ritwik Ghatak


References


External links

* 1958 films Bengali-language Indian films Films directed by Ritwik Ghatak Films set in Kolkata Indian children's films 1950s Bengali-language films Indian coming-of-age films {{1950s-Bengali-film-stub