#1328: RAY, Satyajit: Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)
RAY, Satyajit (India)
Days and Nights in the Forest [1970]
Spine #1328
4K
One of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements begins with the deceptively easy grace of a buddy comedy—only to give way to darker moral shading. Seeking a weekend escape from the city, four friends from Kolkata embark on a driving trip to the countryside, where their urban entitlement and prejudices are gradually exposed. Among these young bachelors is the overconfident Ashim (Soumitra Chatterjee), who finds his self-assurance shaken by Aparna (the radiant Sharmila Tagore), an enigmatic young woman whose cool intellect conceals turbulent emotional depths. Filmed luminously amid the sound-dappled splendor of the woodlands of India’s Palamu region, Days and Nights in the Forest deconstructs the masculine ego and India’s fraught class divisions with elegant complexity.
116 minutes
Monaural
Monaural
Black and White
in Bengali
1:37:1
1:37:1
Criterion Release 2026
Director/Writer
Satyajit Ray was 49 when he wrote and directed Days and Nights in the Forest.
Based on the novel Aranyer Din Ratri by Sunil Gangopadhyay.
Other Ray films in the Collection:
The Film
The Extras
The Booklet
Commentary
Video tribute
Documentary 1
Documentary 2
Documentary 3
Controversial altered ending
Theatrical trailer
The Booklet
Commentary
Video tribute
Documentary 1
Documentary 2
Documentary 3
Controversial altered ending
Theatrical trailer
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