Ashani Sanket
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Ashani Sanket (1973; Bangla: অশনি সংকেত, English title: Distant Thunder) is a Bengali-language film by the renowned Indian director Satyajit Ray.
The film is set in the rural Indian province of Bengal during the Second World War, and is a searing examination of the arrival of the great famine of 1943 to the villages of Bengal. Through the eyes of a young Brahmin doctor-teacher and his pretty wife, Ray shows the human scale of a cataclysmic event that killed more than 3 million people. The film unfolds at a leisurely pace, reflecting the rhythms of village life, but proceeds to show the gradual breakdown of traditional village norms caused by the existential pressure of hunger and starvation.
Unlike most of Ray's early films, Ashani Sanket was filmed in colour. It starred Soumitra Chatterjee who headlined numerous Ray films, and the Bangladeshi actress Bobita in her only prominent international role.
Ashani Sanket won the Golden Bear award at the 1973 Berlin Film Festival.
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