Seemabaddha

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Seemabaddha (Company Limited)
Directed bySatyajit Ray
Written bySatyajit Ray, based on the novel Seemabaddha by Mani Shankar Mukherjee
Produced byChitranjali (Bharat Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana)
StarringBarun Chanda
Harindranath Chattopadhyay
Sharmila Tagore
Haradhan Bandopadhyay
Parumita Chowdhury
Indira Roy
Promod Ganguli
G. H. Mani Iyer
CinematographySoumendu Roy
Edited byDulal Dutta
Music bySatyajit Ray
Release date
  • September 24, 1971 (1971-09-24)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Seemabaddha (Bengali: সীমাবদ্ধ Shimabôddho; English title: Company Limited) is a 1971 social drama Bengali film directed by Satyajit Ray.[1] It is based on the novel Seemabaddha by Mani Shankar Mukherjee. It stars Barun Chanda, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, and Sharmila Tagore in lead roles. The film was the second entry in Ray's Calcutta trilogy, which included Pratidwandi (The Adversary) (1970) and Jana Aranya (The Middleman) (1976). The films deal with the rapid modernization of Calcutta, rising corporate culture and greed, and the futility of the rat race.[2] The film won the FIPRESCI Award at the 33rd Venice International Film Festival, and the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in 1971.[3]

  1. ^ Roy Armes (29 July 1987). Third World Film Making and the West. University of California Press. pp. 237–. ISBN 978-0-520-90801-7.
  2. ^ Andrew Robinson (1989). Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye. University of California Press. pp. 200–. ISBN 978-0-520-06946-6.
  3. ^ John W. Hood (2008). Beyond the world of apu: the films of Satyajit Ray. Orient Longman. p. 180. ISBN 978-81-250-3510-7.