Runaway
About Runaway
Kanchan is eight and always in trouble in his village. He sees his father as a tyrant who keeps his mother shut in. In his dreams the city is a golden place. He runs away to Calcutta. The city is not what he pictured.
Cast & crew
More about Runaway
Ritwik Ghatak wrote and directed the film in Calcutta from Shibram Chakraborty's novel of the same name. Salil Chowdhury wrote the music. English Wikipedia dates it 1959 and gives the Bengali title Bari Theke Paliye. The running time is 124 minutes.
Themes
Background
A Bengali coming-of-age film by Ghatak about a village boy who treats Calcutta as a dream and then meets it.
Making
Ghatak shot the boy's flight from the village into Calcutta, using Chakraborty's novel.
Music
Salil Chowdhury wrote the score.
Preservation
The film survives and is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- English titles are Runaway and The Runaway.
- Kali Banerjee, Keshto Mukherjee, and Jahor Roy are in the cast.
- The Bengali title means running away from home.
Scenes
- Kanchan leaves the village for Calcutta and finds it is not the city in his dreams.
Influenced by
- Shibram Chakraborty's novel Bari Theke Paliye
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Bari Thekey Paliye (Runaway) (1959).webm)