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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Agantuk<br />
| image = Agantuk poster.jpg<br />
| alt = Agantuk<br />
| caption = Poster<br />
| director = [[Satyajit Ray]]<br />
| producer = Satyajit Ray<br />
| screenplay = Satyajit Ray<br />
| based_on = {{based on|''Atithi'' (short story)|Satyajit Ray}}<br />
| starring = [[Utpal Dutt]]<br />[[Mamata Shankar]]<br />[[Deepankar De]]<br />[[Dhritiman Chatterjee]]<br />Promod Ganguli<br />[[Rabi Ghosh]]<br />
| music = [[Satyajit Ray]]<br />
| cinematography = Barun Raha<br />
| editing = [[Dulal Dutta]]<br />
| studio = [[National Film Development Corporation of India|NFDC]]<br />DD Productions<br />
| distributor = [[Artificial Eye]] (UK)<br />
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1991|||India|1992|05|22|US|1993|11|19|UK}}<br />
| runtime = 120 minutes<br />
| country = [[India]]<br />[[France]]<br />
| language = Bengali<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Agantuk''''' ({{Literal translation|The Stranger}}) is a 1991 [[Bengali language|Bengali-language]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] written and directed by [[Satyajit Ray]].<ref name="Chawdhary2011">{{cite book|author=Surendar Chawdhary|title=The Pather Panchali of Satyajit Ray: An Illustrated Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SaMvnBjn9m4C&pg=PA192|year=2011|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-6353-4|page=192}}</ref> It was Ray's last film, based on one of Ray's own short stories, ''Atithi''. It was a joint Indian-French production with financial backing from companies such as [[Gérard Depardieu]]'s DD Productions and [[Canal+]].<ref name=CompanyCredits>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101279/companycredits IMDb: Company credits for Agantuk] Retrieved 2013-05-08</ref><br />
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== Plot summary ==<br />
Anila Bose, who lives in Calcutta, receives a letter from someone claiming to be her long lost uncle, Manomohan Mitra. He writes that he is visiting India after 35 years abroad and, as Anila is his only surviving relative, wants to meet her before he sets off again. Anila looks forward to it, but her husband, Sudhindra, is suspicious. The uncle arrives and stays. He says that he is an [[anthropologist]]<ref name="RayCardullo2007">{{cite book|author1=Satyajit Ray|author2=Bert Cardullo|title=Satyajit Ray: Interviews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fQYs4X5d9WAC&pg=PA210|year=2007|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-57806-937-8|page=210}}</ref> who has traveled all over the world, and immediately wins the friendship of their son, Satyaki.<br />
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Anila suddenly remembers her grandfather's will, and Sudhindra is quick to suspect that the man calling himself Manomohan has come only to claim his share of the inheritance. Anila also starts to doubt his identity, while their son truly believes that he is who he claims to be.<br />
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The central conflict of the film rests upon the identity of the man and the family's struggle to determine it. Sudhindra subjects the visitor to various tests, such as looking at his passport. In a final attempt to establish the truth, he invites a lawyer friend to gently question the guest. However, things turn ugly as the lawyer's frustration builds up until he orders the guest to "either come clean or just clear out". The next morning, the visitor is gone. Desperate to find him and win him back, the family finally learns that he is in fact Manmohan Mitra, and has visited the executor of the will. The couple apologises and persuades him to return. Back in Calcutta, after he leaves for Australia, the couple learn that Manmohan has given them his share of the inheritance.<br />
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== Cast ==<br />
*[[Deepankar De]] ... Sudhindra Bose<br />
*[[Mamata Shankar]] ... Anila Bose<br />
*[[Bikram Bhattacharya]] ... Satyaki Bose<br />
*[[Utpal Dutt]] ... Manomohan Mitra / The Agantuk<br />
*[[Dhritiman Chatterjee]] ... Prithwish Sen Gupta<br />
*[[Rabi Ghosh]] ... Ranjan Rakshit<br />
*[[Subrata Chatterjee]] ... Chhanda Rakshit<br />
*[[Promode Ganguly]] ... Tridib Mukherjee<br />
*[[Ajit Bandyopadhyay (actor)|Ajit Bandyopadhyay]] ... Sital Sarkar<br />
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== Production ==<br />
''Agantuk'' was to become Satyajit Ray's last film. He died on 23 April 1992, at the age of 70. The film was a joint Indian-French production with financial backing from [[Gérard Depardieu]]'s DD Productions, [[Canal+]] and a couple of other French companies.<ref name=CompanyCredits /> Depardieu is credited as executive producer.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101279/combined IMDb: ''Full cast and crew for Agantuk''] Retrieved 2013-05-08</ref><br />
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==Reception==<br />
The film was critically acclaimed upon its release. The film ranked 2nd on [[Cahiers du Cinéma]]'s [[Cahiers du Cinéma's Annual Top 10 Lists|Top 10 Films of the Year List]] in 1992.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/critics/cahiers.html|title=Cahiers du Cinema: Top Ten Lists 1951-2009|last=Johnson|first=Eric C.|website=alumnus.caltech.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327102838/http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/critics/cahiers.html|archive-date=2012-03-27|url-status=dead}}</ref> Leah Garchik of [[San Francisco Chronicle]] wrote the film "is a fitting ending to Ray's 30-film career -- it was Film of the Year in India in 1992 -- a strong and underlined summing- up statement about capital-M Man and capital-C Civilization."<ref>{{cite web|title=Film Review:The Stranger|url=https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/FILM-REVIEW-Stranger-Brings-Color-to-Ray-Film-3021933.php|website=sfgate}}</ref> Hal Hinson of [[Washington Post]] wrote the film "shows all the virtues of a master artist in full maturity."<ref>{{cite web|title=The Stranger|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/thestrangernrhinson_c03113.htm|website=Washington Post}}</ref> [[Vincent Canby]] of [[New York Times]] wrote about the film "A small, gentle, exquisitely realized comedy about, among other things, family loyalties and trust in a world in which traditions have been devalued."<ref>{{cite web|title=Satyajit Ray: A Wrok of Closure|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/22/movies/review-film-satyajit-ray-a-work-of-closure.html|website=New York Times|date=22 May 1992}}</ref><br />
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== Awards ==<br />
At the 1992 Indian [[National Film Awards]], ''Agantuk'' won the awards for [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|Best Feature Film]] and [[National Film Award for Best Direction|Best Directing]], and the [[National Film Award – Special Mention (Feature Film)|Special Jury Award]] went to [[Mamata Shankar]] for her portrayal of Anila.{{citation needed|date=May 2014}} At the Ritwik Ghatak awards, it was named the Best Film, while Ray was named the Best Scenario Writer.<ref>{{cite news|title="Agantuk" bags best Bengali film award|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19931106|access-date=22 January 2018|work=The Indian Express|date=6 November 1993|page=23}}</ref><br />
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== Sequel ==<br />
A stand-alone sequel named ''[[Agantuker Pore]]'' was supposed to be in production, but has been shelved. [[Mamata Shankar]], [[Deepankar De]] and [[Dhritiman Chatterjee]] were to reprise their roles from this film. Actor [[Abir Chatterjee]] was to play the role of the adult Satyaki. [[Payel Sarkar]] and [[Tridha Chowdhury]] were to be seen in important roles.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/Abir-Paayel-to-star-in-Agantuker-Pore/articleshow/46886399.cms|title=Abir, Paayel to star in Agantuker Pore|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=29 April 2015}}</ref> It was supposed to be directed by Orko Sinha, who said the story would be completely different from the previous film.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31812&articlexml=Film-to-revisit-Rays-Agantuk-11042015101019|title=Film to revisit Ray's Agantuk|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=11 April 2015}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070811013741/http://www.satyajitray.org/films/agantuk.htm Satyajitray.org on Agantuk]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051105033127/http://satyajitray.ucsc.edu/films/agantuk.html UCSC on Agantuk]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051128211709/http://filmref.com/directors/dirpages/ray.html Reviews of all of Ray's film including Agantuk]<br />
*{{IMDb title|0101279}}<br />
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