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Director
  
Release date
  
May 7, 1965 (India)

Duration
  

Language
  
7.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy

Music director
  
Country
  
India

Mahapurush movie poster

Release date
  
7 May 1965

Based on
  
Birinchibaba by Parashuram

Writer
  
Rajshekhar Parashuram Basu (story), Satyajit Ray (screenplay)

Characters
  
Birinchi Baba, Nibaran, Buchki, Satya

Cast
  
Charuprakash Ghosh
(Birinchi Baba),
Robi Ghosh
(Birinchi Baba's assistant),
Prasad Mukherjee
(Gurupada Mitra),
Gitali Roy
(Buchki),
Satindra Bhattacharya
(Satya), (Professor Nani)

Similar movies
  
Related Satyajit Ray movies

Tagline
  
comedy

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Mahapurush (Bengali: মহাপুরুষ), or The Holy Man, is a 1965 film directed by Satyajit Ray, based on a short story Birinchibaba (বিরিঞ্চি বাবা) by Rajshekhar Basu.

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Plot

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After the death of his wife, Gurupada Mitter (Prasad Mukherjee), an advocate, has not been at peace. He and his daughter Buchki (Gitali Roy), meet Birinchi (Charuprakash Ghosh). Birinchi Baba claims to be ageless. He tells stories from the past; about his arguments with 'Plato' about time, how he taught E=mc2 to Einstein, and was on first-name terms with Jesu (Christ) and Gautam (Buddha). Birinchi Baba has a growing band of rich devotees.

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Gurupada decides to patronize the holy man and become his disciple. Daughter Buchki is disappointed with her lover Satya. To teach him a lesson, she tells Satya that she is going to leave him and become a disciple of Birinchi Baba.

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Satya turns to his friend Nibaran for his help. It does not take Nibaran long to realize that Birinchi Baba is a fraud. Nibaran and friends expose Birinchi Baba. The devotees feel foolish and perhaps have learnt a lesson.

Cast

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  • Charuprakash Ghosh as Birinchi Baba
  • Rabi Ghosh as Birinchi Baba's assistant
  • Somen Bose as Nibaran da
  • Satya Bandopadhyay as Nitai da
  • Haridhan Mukherjee as Ganesh Mama
  • Satindra Bhattacharya as Satya
  • Santosh Dutta as Professor Nani
  • Geetali Roy as Buchki
  • Prasad Mukherjee as Gurupada Mittir
  • Renuka Roy as Nani's wife
  • Preservation

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    The Academy Film Archive preserved Mahapurush in 2005.

    References

    Mahapurush Wikipedia
    Mahapurush IMDb Mahapurush themoviedb.org


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