Teen Kanya
The postmaster
- Anil Chatterjee: Nandalal
- Chandana Banerjee Ratan
- Nripati Chatterjee: Bisay
- Khagen Pathak: Khagen
Monihara
- Kali Banerjee: Phanibhusan Saha
- Kanika Majumdar: Manimalika
- Kumar Roy: Madhusudhan
- Gobinda Chakrabarty: teacher and storyteller
Samapti
- Soumitra Chatterjee: Amulya
- Aparna Das Gupta: Mrinmoyee
- Sita Mukherjee: Jogmaya
- Gita Dey: Nistarini
- Santosh Dutta: Kishori
- Mihir Chakravarti: Rakhal
- Devi Neogy: Haripada
Three daughters ( Bengali: তিন কন্যা, tin Kanya ) is an Indian film by Satyajit Ray from 1961 consists of three episodic film which, respectively, developed a short story by Rabindranath Thakur and independent films. .
Action
The postmaster
Nandalal, a young man comes on in a remote village, proceeding to take up the post of Postmaster. The Orphan Girl Ratan takes housekeepers activities for him. Nandalal can not mentally involved with village life, the farmers are nice but simple and the village idiot shocked him. Having grown up and studied in Kolkata is Nandalal quickly bored by his work in solitude and therefore begins to teach Ratan reading and writing. She adores him for it. As Nandalal razed to the ground with malaria, Ratan is taking care of him.
Nandalal is tired of the country life after this experience, announces the location and prepares his departure, without having noticed how Ratan has made him dear to us. Ratan is sad and hurt when she observed the arrival of the new postmaster. Nandalal would be after the handover his place and last words of goodbye with the villagers by Ratan and give it to you a part of his final salary, but it goes with the bucket of water, which she has brought for the new postmaster, ignoring past him. She cried, but is too sad and proud to take his money.
Nandalal notices his insensitivity, pocketed the money thoughtful piece back in his pocket and walks away.
Monihara
A village school teacher meets the river a man with hood and told him the local ghost story about the abandoned palace of the landlords family Saha.
Phanibhusan Saha and his wife Manimalika have come from Kolkata to live on the family estate. Manimalika endured no longer living in the extended family. She was treated with hostility because it has not created a offspring. To her husband she is repellent. He hopes to be able to buy their love through jewels. This seems initially to make you happier, but the woman developed an obsession for gems and jewelry and bullies her husband, her constantly buy new ones. They also developed a phobia that her husband could demand the return of the jewels of a day. When his business burns down, she offers him to help, although the sale of the jewels on, but backs down when her husband not discuss. While the husband is on the way to raise money, she goes on with her cousin, together with the jewels. The man is shocked when he returns from the absence of his wife and the jewels and drifts - alone in the empty property - slowly into madness from. He hears voices and footsteps and is finally followed by the spirit of his wife.
After hearing the story, says the man with the hood, that she liked him, just have some errors. He revealed to be the man from the story itself, and dissolves into thin air. Scared the teacher runs away.
Samapti
Amulya returns after his graduation in Kolkata to his widowed mother country back. When he gets out of the boat, he fights his way through a muddy path and is observed here of the teenager Mrinmoyee. When he discovered she bursts into giggles and runs away.
Amulyas mother has arranged her marriage to the daughter of a respectable family for him. He is reluctant to visit the family in the neighboring village, since he finds the girl boring and a marriage declines. Mrinmoyee looking through the window and interferes with getting to know, by throwing your little squirrel into the room, thus wreaking havoc. As Amulya leaves the house, his shoes are gone and he has to walk home barefoot. As he wades through the muddy so way back, a shoe thrown at him. He quickly finds out that there has been a string of Mrinmoyee that lurks behind a tree.
Made by their banter in love he wants to marry Mrinmoyee. His mother is shocked by Amulyas suggestion, is the wild and rebellious Mrinmoyee anything but a " decent bride " in their view. Mrinmoyee is unhappy with the accepted proposal of marriage from her mother, as a marriage would mean the end of their previous lifestyle. The marriage takes place, Mrinmoyee Amulya denied, however. On the first night, still in wedding dress she flees secretly through the window to her swing on the river. Amulya it blocks because of this scandal the next morning into the room and she throws a tantrum. When he is added, his books and battered objects are scattered in the room. He decides to go back to Kolkata and send it to her mother.
Only when Amulya is gone, remembers the desperate Mrinmoyee how much she loves him anyway. His mother brings Amulya under the pretext of being ill back to the village. At her request, he now goes to the House of Mrinmoyees mother, but Mrinmoyee ran away. Crying, she hears his call. He goes back to his room, where he meets Mrinmoyee, which now wants to live with him.
Background
This episode film was released internationally first without Monihara. Ray grabbed the three short stories Thakur as a contribution to its 100th birthday in 1961 and turned this occasion also the documentary Rabindranath Tagore.
Three daughters was released on 5 May 1961.
Reviews
If I were forced to choose only one work by Ray to show it to someone to whom his films are unknown, it would be "three daughters ". Andrew Robinson ( Ray's Biographer )
Awards
- National Film Award for Best Film in Bengali in 1961
- Golden Boomerang, Melbourne, 1962
- Selznik Golden Laurel Award, Berlin, 1963