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Kapurush O Mahapurush (The Coward and the Holy Man)
| Year | 1965 |
|---|---|
| Producer | R. D. Bansal & Co. (R. D. B. Productions) |
| Distributor | R. D. Bansal & Co. |
| Screenplay | Satyajit Ray |
| Based on | The short stories Janaiko Kapuruser Kahini by Premendra Mitra (The Coward) and Birinchibaba by Parasuram (The Holy Man) |
| Photography | Soumendu Roy |
| Editor | Dulal Dutta |
| Art Director | Bansi Chandragupta |
| Music | Satyajit Ray |
| Sound | Nripen Paul, Atul Chatterjee, Sujit Sarkar |
| Length | Kapurush 74 min.; Mahapurush 65 min. |
| Black & White |
Cast for Kapurush:
| Bimal Gupta | Haradhan Bannerjee |
|---|---|
| Amitabha Roy | Soumitra Chatterjee |
| Karuna Gupta | Madhabi Mukherjee |
Amitabh, a scriptwriter of commercial films, drives in the country, scouting for locations. When his vehicle breaks down, he is taken in by a tea planter whose wife is Karuna, a woman whom he had formerly loved but whom he was unable or unwilling to take care of. In those days he was a poor student, uncomfortable with his involvement with this woman from a well-off family; just as she had made up her mind to accept his situation and bravely confront her family's disapproval, he left her. Now that he has become successful on his own, Amitabh would love for Karuna to leave her husband and live with him. He arranges a rendezvous at the train station.
Cast for Mahapurush:
| Birinchi Baba | Charuprakash Ghosh |
|---|---|
| His assistant | Rabi Ghosh |
| Gurupada Mitter | Prasad Mukherjee |
| Buchki | Gitali Roy |
| Satya | Satindra Banerjee |
| Nibaran | Somen Bose |
| Professor Nani | Santosh Dutta |
| His wife | Renuka Roy |
Birinchi
manages to pass himself off as a sadhu (sage, holy man) and takes
advantage of the credulity of a father and his daughter Buchki. This does
not suit her fiance Satya, who fears that her religious conversion will
pull her away from him. He will do anything to recover his beloved and
expose the sadhu or holy man.
