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Devi (1960)

Devi poster
Original title
দেবী
Directed by
Satyajit Ray
Genre
drama film
Country
India
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 62 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy landowner has a dream that his daughter in law is a goddess. He starts to worship her and this belief changes the lives of everyone in the house.

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What happens

Devi (transl. Goddess) is a 1960 Indian Bengali-language drama by director Satyajit Ray, starring Sharmila Tagore, Soumitra Chatterjee, and Chhabi Biswas. It is based on a short story by Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay. The plot follows a zamindar (Biswas) who believes that his daughter-in-law (Tagore) has revealed herself to be a Goddess incarnate in a dream. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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