Film TitleAshani Sanket (Distant Thunder), 1973, India, Bengali
Scene DescriptionThe wife tells Gangacharan that her friends' house has a rice mill. For every nine pali or forty and a half kilos of threshing, the women get a kilo of rice in payment. She can work there and earn themselves some to eat. Gangacharan refuses to let her work at the mill, first because she's too weak to do such labour and secondly because they would jeopardize their status as Brahmins in the village by working with other low caste women. He supposes that the war at Kurukshetra (of Mahabharat) ended in just eighteen days- the World War couldn't possibly run any longer! (7/24)
ProducerSharbani BhattacharyaDirectorSatyajit RayBannerBalaka Movies
Art DirectorAshoke Bose
CastChitra Banerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy, Bobita, Paritosh Banerjee, Sachin Chakraborty, Govinda Chakravarti
EditingDulal Dutta
Music DirectorSatyajit Ray
Script WriterSatyajit Ray
