The Home and the World
TRADITION VERSUS MODERNISM
When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband's visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought.
Where to Watch
Stream
Criterion Channel
Cast
Soumitra Chatterjee
Sandip Mukherjee
Victor Banerjee
Nikhilesh Choudhury
Swatilekha Sengupta
Bimala Choudhury
Gopa Aich
The Sister-in-Law
Jennifer Kendal
Miss Gilby
Manoj Mitra
Headmaster
Bimal Chatterjee
Kulada
Indrapramit Roy
Amulya
Sunil Sarkar
Tinu Ghosh
Bibhuti Nandi
Haradhan Basu
Subal Das
Shashanka Bhattacharya
Rasik Banerjee
