Tourism, Landscape and Interiority in ARANYER DIN RATRI – Ranjani Mazumdar (Delhi)

Four tourists from the city travel to the Bengal countryside and experience the ecology of the forests, the tribal life of the indigenous people and their village festivals. The journey away from the city becomes an exploratory journey into the life of the soul, in which the travelers’ self-image is at stake and which leads to a pendulum movement of discovery and destruction.

Ranjani Mazumdar is Professor of Film Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi

Film:ARANYER DIN RATRI(Days and Nights in the Wilderness) India 1969, 158 min.