Kanchenjungha

A delightful ensemble cast play a family vacationing in Darjeeling, at a popular hill station and resort. Chhabi Biswas’ overbearing patriarch fails to see that his older daughter is in a troubled marriage and that the younger one is resisting her tiresome suitor. Ray’s first film in colour and unfolding in linear real-time, it combines intimate exchanges with larger family scenes.

Print courtesy of the Packard Humanities Institute Collection at the Academy Film Archive.