Days and Nights in the Forest
One of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements begins with the deceptively easy grace of a buddy comedy—only to give way to darker moral shading. Seeking a weekend escape from the city, four friends from Kolkata embark on a driving trip to the countryside, where their urban entitlement and prejudices are gradually exposed. Among these young bachelors is the overconfident Ashim (Soumitra Chatterjee), who finds his self-assurance shaken by Aparna (the radiant Sharmila Tagore), an enigmatic young woman whose cool intellect conceals turbulent emotional depths. Filmed luminously amid the sound-dappled splendor of the woodlands of India’s Palamu region, Days and Nights in the Forest deconstructs the masculine ego and India’s fraught class divisions with elegant complexity.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration—undertaken by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project at L’Immagine Ritrovata in collaboration with Film Heritage Foundation, Janus Films, and the Criterion Collection—with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Introduction by filmmaker Wes Anderson
- Making-of program featuring new and archival interviews with director Satyajit Ray, actors Sharmila Tagore and Rabi Ghosh, and cinematographer Soumendu Roy
- Conversation about Ray and the film’s restoration featuring Anderson, Tagore, and Film Heritage Foundation founder Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Devika Girish
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration—undertaken by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project at L’Immagine Ritrovata in collaboration with Film Heritage Foundation, Janus Films, and the Criterion Collection—with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Introduction by filmmaker Wes Anderson
- Making-of program featuring new and archival interviews with director Satyajit Ray, actors Sharmila Tagore and Rabi Ghosh, and cinematographer Soumendu Roy
- Conversation about Ray and the film’s restoration featuring Anderson, Tagore, and Film Heritage Foundation founder Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Devika Girish
Cast
- Soumitra Chatterjee
- Ashim
- Subhendu Chatterjee
- Sanjoy
- Samit Bhanja
- Harinath
- Rabi Ghosh
- Shekhar
- Pahari Sanyal
- Sadashiv Tripathi
- Sharmila Tagore
- Aparna
- Kaveri Bose
- Jaya
- Simi Garewal
- Duli
- Aparna Sen
- Atasi
- Noni Ganguli
- Servant
Credits
- Director
- Satyajit Ray
- Written by
- Satyajit Ray
- Based on the novel Aranyer Din Ratri by
- Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Producer
- Asim Dutta
- Producer
- Nepal Dutta
- Cinematographer
- Soumendu Roy
- Editor
- Dulal Dutta
- Music
- Satyajit Ray
- Art direction
- Bansi Chandragupta
- Sound
- Sujit Sarkar
- Makeup
- Ananta Das
Trailer for Days and Nights in the Forest
