Devi (Bengali: দেবী Devi) is a 1960 film by
Bengali
director Satyajit Ray,
starring Soumitra Chatterjee and
Sharmila Tagore. It is based
on a short story by
Prabhat
Kumar Mukhopadhya. The title means "Goddess".
Plot synopsis
In 1860
rural Bengal
, Doyamoyee
(Sharmila Tagore) and her husband
Umaprasad (Soumitra Chatterjee)
live with Umaprasad's family. His father, Kalikinkar Roy, is
a devoted follower of the goddess
Kali. Since
Umaprasad is away at school, Doyamoyee takes care of her
father-in-law.
One evening, Kalikinkar has a dream that Doyamoyee is an
avatar of Kali and must be worshipped as such. Soon
other people too come to believe that she is an incarnation of the
goddess. After hearing the news, Umprasad returns home but is
unable to remedy the situation as Doyamoyee herself begins to
believe that she is an
avatar, a belief which
soon turns to tragedy.
Cast
Awards
The film won the President's Gold Medal in N.Delhi in 1961 and was
nominated for the
Palme d'Or (Golden
Palm) at the
1962 Cannes Film
Festival.
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