Nayak - The Hero
by Satyajit Ray
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Actor: Uttam KumarSharmila TagoreBireswar SenSomen BoseNirmal GhoshPremangshu BoseSumita SanyalRanjit SenBharati DeviLali ChowdhuryKamu MukherjeeSusmita MukherjeeSubrata SensharmaJamuna SinhaDirector: Satyajit Ray
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-01
Studio: New York Film Annex
Movie Reviews of Nayak - The Hero
Movie Review: Slow moving, lengthy, and somewhat confusing
Summary: 3 Stars
Nayak (The Hero) was made in 1966. It was not one of my favorite Ray films. It comprises a matinee idol and common people interacting with an idol on a train journey. Apart from the setting on a train, the past is told through backflash and dreams interspersed.
Arindam, (Uttam Kumar), a handsome, well-known movie star is taking the train to Delhi from Calcutta to collect a prize. On the train, he encounters a journalist who decides to interview him. He then reveals some of his past, his guilt by leaving the theatre for movie film, his refusal to help a friend politically, his drinking, confessing to an affair, etc.
The people on the train have a role as we see how they interact to the movie star. There are a few subplots within the characters of the train, but none seem to prove much to the core of the moral story. The film is very lengthy and at times confusing in its storytelling.
According to Andrew Robinson in "The Inner Eye", Ray wanted to investigate the psychology of a star, his adulators and detractors and to do a train journey.
Nayak had won the Critics Prize in Berlin in 1966. And in 1974, it was released in the U.S. with only decent reviews. ...Rizzo
Summary of Nayak - The Hero
A famous film actor travels by train to New Delhi for an award ceremony. On the train he meets a young journalist who edits a serious women's magazine. Filled with contempt for the likes of him, she secretly plans to interview him for an "expose" into the meaningless existance of a self centered actor. As she interrogates him he begins to re-examine his life. Through a series of flashbacks and dreams the film explores the psychology of the star and his admirers. Winner, Best Screenplay and Story New Delhi, 1967 Winner, Critics' Prize (Unicrit award) Berlin, 1966 Winner, Special Jury Award Berlin, 1966Art House & International DVD Video
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