Overview
This short film shows an encounter, through a series of games, between a street child from the shantytowns and a child of a rich family, stationed at his window. The film has no dialogue and the action moves through the attempts at one-upmanship evident in their successive display of their toys. Their rivalry (a kite shot down by a toy rifle, for example) concludes with the opposition between the world of noise (the toys inside the house) and that of music (the street child's flute). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 8, 1965
- Original language
- XX
- Countries
- India
- Cast
- Ravi Kiran
- Director
- Satyajit Ray
- Writer
- Satyajit Ray
- Cinematography
- Soumendu Roy
- Music
- Satyajit Ray
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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