April 20, 2024 18:15 (IST)
Kolkata/IBNS: Film maestro Satyajit Ray's 1970 movie Pratidwandi, which was officially selected as the opening film for a special screening in the Cannes Classic section this year, makes a comeback on big screen with a theatrical re-release at the Priya Cinema in Kolkata from Friday (Aug 19).
Of sex work and Ray's women in the rough trade
The representation of the sex worker in Indian celluloid seldom displays attempt at non-voyeurism. Satyajit Ray, on the other hand, took a more nuanced look at the sex worker, finds Shoma A. Chatterji on the birth centenary year of the maestro
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