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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Bari Theke Paliye<br />
| image = Dvd bari theke paliye.jpg<br />
| director = [[Ritwik Ghatak]]<br />
| producer = Chitrakalpa<br />
| music = [[Salil Chowdhury]]<br />
| writer = [[Ritwik Ghatak]] (screenplay), <br> [[Shibram Chakraborty]]<br>(the original novel)<br />
|cinematography = [[:bn:দীনেন_গুপ্ত|Dinen Gupta]]<br />
|editing = Ramesh Joshi<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bari Theke Paliye| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWzNxJjYPuw&list=RDSWzNxJjYPuw|date=20 September 2025}} <br />
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| starring = [[Kali Banerjee]]<br>[[Gyanesh Mukherjee]]<br>[[Keshto Mukherjee]]<br>[[Jahor Roy|Jahar Roy]]<br />
| studio = L.B. Films International<ref>{{cite web |title=Bari Theke Paliye |url=https://indiancine.ma/IZR/info |access-date=19 April 2024}}</ref><br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = {{Film date|1959|07|24|df=y}}<br />
| runtime = 117 min.<br />
| language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]<br />
| budget = <br />
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'''''Bari Theke Paliye''''' (English-language title: ''Runaway'' or ''The Runaway'') is a 1959 [[coming-of-age]] [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali film]] by director [[Ritwik Ghatak]].<ref name="Ritwik Kumar Ghatak : a monograph">{{cite book|last=Banerjee|first=Haimanti|title=Ritwik Kumar Ghatak : a monograph|year=1985|publisher=National Film Archive of India|location=Pune|isbn=8120100018|pages=8}}</ref><ref name="Global art cinema : new theories and histories">{{cite book|last=Schoonover|first=edited by Rosalind Galt, Karl|title=Global art cinema : new theories and histories|year=2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0195385625|pages=491–492}}</ref><br />
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This film was directed by [[Parallel Cinema|alternative Indian filmmaker]] Ritwik Ghatak in Kolkata (then Calcutta) based on the same name novel by [[Shibram Chakraborty]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Ayan Ray |title=Bari Theke Paliye {The Runaway} (1959) |url=http://archive.org/details/bari-theke-paliye-the-runaway-1959 |access-date=2024-04-19}}</ref> The plot is about a misbehaving boy who runs away from his village and goes to Calcutta.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Runaway |url=https://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-runaway/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |publisher=Film at Lincoln Center |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Bilingual E-archive Digital Platform for Bengal's Cinema |url=https://www.bengalfilmarchive.com/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Bengal Film Archive}}</ref><br />
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== Plot ==<br />
Eight-year-old Kanchan is always getting into mischief, playing pranks at home and around the village. He sees his father as a cruel demon who imprisons and oppresses his mother. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado — Kolkata — but when he arrives, he finds that reality is harsher than he expected. The glimpses of reality he catches, however, are harsher than he expected, and the people he meets offer him an alternative view of the city. He learns the dialectics of life in the City of Joy: love and hate, honesty and dishonesty. He meets Mini, a small, loving girl, and her family, as well as folk singers, street hawkers, magicians, beggars and thieves. After struggling to survive, he experiences life as it is, only to return home to his village. This time, he returns a more mature person, having realised that his father is not a demon, but another victim of poverty who remains a loving father.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chandrima S. Bhattacharya |title=There is nowhere left to run |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/there-is-nowhere-left-to-run/cid/1809986 |access-date=19 April 2024}}</ref><br />
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== Cast ==<br />
* Parambhattarak Lahiri as Kanchan<br />
* [[Gyanesh Mukherjee]] as Kanchan's father<br />
* [[Kali Banerjee]] as Haridas<br />
* Krishnajaya Gupta as Mini<br />
* [[Nripati Chattopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Jahor Roy]]<br />
* [[Bijon Bhattacharya]]<br />
* [[Keshto Mukherjee]] as Magician<br />
* Padma Devi as Kanchan's mother<br />
* Niti Pandit as Mini's mother<ref>{{Cite web |last=Das |first=Soumitra |date=2021-07-27 |title=Finding Ritwik Ghatak’s boy hero |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/watch/finding-ritwik-ghataks-boy-hero/article35554310.ece |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Business Line|location=Chennai |language=en}}</ref><br />
* Mani Shrimai<br />
* Satindra Bhattacharya<br />
* Shailen Ghosh<br />
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== Soundtrack==<br />
* ''Ore–ore Nore–nore, Shonkure... Bulbul Bhaja...''<br />
* ''O, Ami Onek, Ghuriya... Koilkatta''<br />
* ''Mago Amay Deko Na Ko Aar''<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of works of Ritwik Ghatak]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0051399}}<br />
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[[Category:Bengali-language Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by Ritwik Ghatak]]<br />
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[[Category:Indian children's films]]<br />
[[Category:1959 Bengali-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian coming-of-age films]]<br />
[[Category:Films based on Indian novels]]<br />
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