Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ganashatru

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Jul 29, 2012, 7:32:58 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Ganashatru'''''''''
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+aka An Enemy of the People
+1989 99’ col Bengali
+d/sc/m Satyajit Ray pc NFDC st Henrik Ibsen’s
+play c Barun Raha
+lp Soumitra Chatterjee, Ruma Guha-
+Thakurta, Mamata Shankar, Dhritiman
+Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey, Subhendu
+Chatterjee, Manoj Mitra, Vishwa Guha-
+Thakurta, Rajaram Yagnik, Satya Bannerjee,
+Gobinda Mukherjee
+
+
+Having suffered a heart attack, Ray returned to
+cinema, extensively assisted by his son
+Sandeep, with a short documentary on his
+father, Sukumar Ray (1987), and with this first
+of three features set in contemporary Bengal,
+addressing, like his earlier trilogy, the theme of
+corruption. For his first contemporary story
+since Jana Aranya (1975), Ray transposes the
+Ibsen play into the story of Dr Ashok Gupta
+(Soumitra Chatterjee) who protests when the
+holy water in a temple turns out to be
+contaminated by bad plumbing and produces a
+jaundice epidemic. The doctor meets with
+powerful opposition from the temple trustees
+and the villagers. The plot device of making the
+holy water in a temple the cause of disease
+evoked the rise of the Hindu religious right
+wing in Indian politics. The film is shot
+predominantly in close-ups and mid-shots and
+seems to bear the stamp of Ray’s continuing ill
+health.
+
+[[Film]]