Three Daughters (1961)
তিন কন্যা
Three stories with three central female characters linking the stories together. The first one concerns an orphan girl who grows attached to the postmaster she is caring for after he teaches her to read and write. The second one is a supernatural tale about a woman obsessed with the jewels her husband buys for her. The final one follows a young man who falls for an unconventional girl from his new village instead of his arranged bride, the daughter of a respectable family.
- Date of release
- 1961-05-05
- TMDB
- 7.6 / 10 (22)
- Runtime
- 2h 53m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Director
- Satyajit Ray
Casting
- Anil Chatterjee — Nandal (segment "The Postmaster")
- Chandana Banerjee — Ratan (segment "The Postmaster")
- Nripati Chatterjee — Bishey (segment "The Postmaster")
- Khagen Pathak — Khagen (segment "The Postmaster")
- Gopay Roy — Bilash (segment "The Postmaster")
- Kali Bannerjee — Phanibhushan Saha (segment "The Lost Jewels")
- Kanika Majumdar — Monimalika (segment "The Lost Jewels")
- Kumar Roy — Madhusudhan (segment "The Lost Jewels")
- Gobinda Chakravarti — Schoolmaster (segment "The Lost Jewels")
- Soumitra Chatterjee — Amulya (segment "The Conclusion")
- Aparna Sen — Mrinmoyee "Pagli" (segment "The Conclusion")
- Sita Mukherjee — Jogmaya (segment "The Conclusion")
Interesting facts
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: National Film Award for Best Bengali Feature Film
Teen Kanya is a 1961 Indian Bengali-language anthology film directed by Satyajit Ray, and based upon short stories by Rabindranath Tagore. The film's original Indian release contained three stories. The international release of the film contained two stories, missing the second. This version was released on VHS in 1997 under the title Two Daughters. The Academy Film Archive preserved the international version of Teen Kanya in 1996.
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