Devi | |
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Directed by | Satyajit Ray |
Written by | Satyajit Ray |
Starring | Soumitra Chatterjee Sharmila Tagore |
Cinematography | Subrata Mitra |
Edited by | Dulal Dutta |
Music by | Ustad Ali Akbar Khan |
Release date |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Bengali |
Devi (transl. Goddess) is a 1960 Bengali-language Hindu drama film by director Satyajit Ray, starring debutante Sharmila Tagore and Soumitra Chatterjee. It is based on a short story by Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay. The film is based on the worship of women and young girls as incarnations of the goddesses Durga or Kali, which is more prevalent in Nepal as the Kumari tradition.