Bari Theke Paliye

Bari Theke Paliye
Directed byRitwik Ghatak
Written byRitwik Ghatak (screenplay),
Shibram Chakraborty
(the original novel)
Produced byChitrakalpa
StarringKali Banerjee
Gyanesh Mukherjee
Keshto Mukherjee
Jahar Roy
Music bySalil Chowdhury
Production
company
L.B. Films International[1]
Release date
  • 24 July 1959 (1959-07-24)
Running time
117 min.
LanguageBengali

Bari Theke Paliye (English-language title: Runaway or The Runaway) is a 1959 coming-of-age Bengali film by director Ritwik Ghatak.[2][3]

This film was directed by alternative Indian filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak in Kolkata (then Calcutta) based on the same name novel by Shibram Chakraborty.[4] The plot is about a misbehaving boy who runs away from his village and goes to Calcutta.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Bari Theke Paliye". Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  2. ^ Banerjee, Haimanti (1985). Ritwik Kumar Ghatak : a monograph. Pune: National Film Archive of India. p. 8. ISBN 8120100018.
  3. ^ Schoonover, edited by Rosalind Galt, Karl (2010). Global art cinema : new theories and histories. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 491–492. ISBN 978-0195385625. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Ayan Ray, Bari Theke Paliye {The Runaway} (1959), retrieved 19 April 2024
  5. ^ "The Runaway". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  6. ^ "Bilingual E-archive Digital Platform for Bengal's Cinema". Bengal Film Archive. Retrieved 19 April 2024.