| 1 | '''Charachar''' |
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| 3 | |
| 4 | aka Shelter of the Wings |
| 5 | 1993 86’ col Bengali |
| 6 | d/sc Buddhadev Dasgupta pc Gope Movies |
| 7 | p Shankar and Geeta Gope st Prafulla Roy |
| 8 | c Soumendu Roy m Biswadeb Dasgupta |
| 9 | lp Rajit Kapoor, Laboni Sarkar, Sadhu Meher, |
| 10 | Indrani Haldar, Manoj Mitra |
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| 12 | |
| 13 | As a result of his young son’s death, Lakhinder, |
| 14 | descending from a family of bird-catchers, |
| 15 | develops a mania for releasing captive birds, |
| 16 | estranging his wife in the process. He turns |
| 17 | increasingly inwards, rejecting the cruelty of |
| 18 | the bird market in Calcutta and eventually also |
| 19 | releasing his wife. At the end of this lyrical |
| 20 | movie with exquisite panoramic and tracking |
| 21 | shots, he is ‘saved’ by the birds as they (in an |
| 22 | ironic reversal of the end of Hitchcock’s The |
| 23 | Birds, 1963) enter his hut and offer him their |
| 24 | protection. |
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| 26 | [[Film]] |