The Goddess
- IMDb link: 0053765
- IMDb rating: 7.8 (3,357 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Satyajit Ray
- Cast: Karuna Bannerjee, Sharmila Tagore, Soumitra Chatterjee, Chhabi Biswas and others
- Release date: 19 Feb 1960
- Release year: 1960
- Runtime: 93 minutes
- Country: India
- Keywords: reference to kali the hindu deity, india, critical acclaim, societal superstition, avatar, filmmaker writer director producer, generation gap, goddess in human form, reincarnated goddess, divine revelation
Plot:
In the countryside of India, Umaprasad has been happily married with his seventeen year-old wife Doyamoyee for three years. They live in the house of Umaprasad's father Kalikinkar Roy, who worships the goddess Kali, with Umaprasad's elder brother Taraprasad, his wife Harasundari and their child Khoka. Umaprasad has a conversation with Doyamoyee and explains that he will move to the big city to study English and she questions why he needs to travel to go to school. Sometime later, Kalikinkar has a dream that Doyamoyee is the reincarnation of Kali and the locals come to Kalikinkar's house to worship her. Doyamoyee asks Harasundari to write to Umaprasad and soon he returns home. But Doyamoyee has been brainwashed with the situation and begins to believe that she might be the reincarnation of Kali leading the family to a tragedy.
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