Mahapurush
- 1965
- 1h 5m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
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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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Simple story of a con man
A religious charlatan claims to have been around for thousands of years, and no matter how outrageous his lies, has an entire village rapt and under his influence. This includes a widower and his daughter, upsetting the plans of marriage for her suitor, so the young man turns to his friends for help. The film is based on a short story by Parashuram, but it seems like a variation of Molière's Tartuffe, or reminded me of it anyway. I certainly like the concept of exposing religious hypocrisy anywhere and everywhere, but the story here is too linear and simple to make a great film. Ray doesn't flesh out his characters or develop any other subplot, so even at 65 minutes it felt a little dry. It's kind of interesting to compare this fictional character to other con-men though.
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- May 25, 2021
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- Runtime1 hour 5 minutes
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- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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