Bari Theke Paliye (English-language title: Runaway or The Runaway) is a 1959 coming-of-age Bengali film by director Ritwik Ghatak.
This film was directed by alternative Indian filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak in Kolkata (then Calcutta) based on the same name novel by Shibram Chakraborty. The plot is about a misbehaving boy who runs away from his village and goes to Calcutta.
Plot 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.
Cast Parambhattarak Lahiri as Kanchan Gyanesh Mukherjee as Kanchan's father Kali Banerjee as Haridas Krishnajaya Gupta as Mini Nripati Chattopadhyay Jahor Roy Bijon Bhattacharya Keshto Mukherjee as Magician Padma Devi as Kanchan's mother Niti Pandit as Mini's mother Mani Shrimai Satindra Bhattacharya Shailen Ghosh
Soundtrack Ore–ore Nore–nore, Shonkure... Bulbul Bhaja... O, Ami Onek, Ghuriya... Koilkatta Mago Amay Deko Na Ko Aar
See also List of works of Ritwik Ghatak
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