02.05.2024 | Frankfurt am Main
Movie
Ray beyond realism: On the irrational and non-human in MONIHARA and DEVI – Meheli Sen (New Brunswick)
Satyajit Ray occupies a central position in research on Indian cinema. His films are usually read in terms of humanism and realism. DEVI and MONIHARA (The Lost Jewels), the centerpiece of the episodic film The Three Daughters and Ray’s only horror film, offer an opportunity to reflect on the uncanny and the non-human in his work.
Meheli Sen is Associate Professor in the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literature and in the Cinema Studies program at Rutgers University.
Film: MONIHARA (The Lost Jewels), as part of Three Daughters India 1961, 158 min
