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A devout Hindu family falls victim to a charlatan posing as a holy man.A devout Hindu family falls victim to a charlatan posing as a holy man.A devout Hindu family falls victim to a charlatan posing as a holy man.
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Rabi Ghosh
- Birinchi Baba's assistant
- (as Robi Ghosh)
Prasad Mukherjee
- Gurupada Mitter
- (as Prasad Mukhopadhyay)
Somen Bose
- Nibaran
- (as Somen Basu)
Satya Banerjee
- Nitai
- (as Satya Bandyopadhyay)
Haridhan Mukherjee
- Ganesh
- (as Haridhan Mukhopadhyay)
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- TriviaEach session ends with Birinchi swooning into a cataleptic trance, requiring that he be carried unconscious back to his room. It's a gag favored by witch doctors and mediums, even Peter Finch's news anchor Howard Beale in Sidney Lumet's Network (1976). The dramatic ritual lets Birinchi Baba evade inconvenient questions, but also provides Satya's friends with a clever means to expose him as a fraud.
- GoofsPlato is claimed to have been a Roman astrologer instead of a Greek philosopher.
- Alternate versionsThere is an Italian edition of this film on DVD (Extra Movie in "IL MONDO DI APU"), re-edited with the contribution of film historian Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available for streaming on some platforms.
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I did not think it was funny, but was amusing
(1965) The Holy Man/ Mahapurush
(In Bengali with English subtitles)
COMEDY DRAMA
Adapted from the story "Birinchi Baba" by Rajshekhar 'Parashuram' Basu, music, co-written and directed by Satyajit Ray that has popular spiritual leader, Birinchi Baba (Charuprakash Ghosh) and his sidekick, Kyabla (Rabi Ghosh) happened to share the same boxcar with a retired lawyer and his daughter, Buchki ((Gitali Roy) welcoming them to their home. It is there, is when things become complicated is when the daughter, Buchi were given instructions by the guru to stray far away from the student, Satya (Satindra Bhattacharya) who happen to take a liking to her. Once Satya and his peers begin to realize this, they then attempt to go to great lengths to expose the guru, Birinchi Baba and his sidekick for who they really are, as a fraud or as con men.
Saw this on TCM and was late at night after seeing Satyajit Ray's other movie "Devi" or "The Goddess", and although it was labelled as a comedy, I did not see a single thing I thought was funny. It was amusing but it could be the fact that I was kind of tired, despite spiritual con men is still happening today.
Adapted from the story "Birinchi Baba" by Rajshekhar 'Parashuram' Basu, music, co-written and directed by Satyajit Ray that has popular spiritual leader, Birinchi Baba (Charuprakash Ghosh) and his sidekick, Kyabla (Rabi Ghosh) happened to share the same boxcar with a retired lawyer and his daughter, Buchki ((Gitali Roy) welcoming them to their home. It is there, is when things become complicated is when the daughter, Buchi were given instructions by the guru to stray far away from the student, Satya (Satindra Bhattacharya) who happen to take a liking to her. Once Satya and his peers begin to realize this, they then attempt to go to great lengths to expose the guru, Birinchi Baba and his sidekick for who they really are, as a fraud or as con men.
Saw this on TCM and was late at night after seeing Satyajit Ray's other movie "Devi" or "The Goddess", and although it was labelled as a comedy, I did not see a single thing I thought was funny. It was amusing but it could be the fact that I was kind of tired, despite spiritual con men is still happening today.
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- Mahapurush: The Holy Man
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- Runtime1 hour 5 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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