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Nayak (The Hero)
| Year | 1966 |
|---|---|
| Producer | R. D. Bansal & Co. (R. D. B. Productions) |
| Distributor | R. D. Bansal & Co. |
| Screenplay | Satyajit Ray |
| Photography | Subrata Mitra |
| Editor | Dulal Dutta |
| Art Director | Bansi Chandragupta |
| Music | Satyajit Ray |
| Sound | Nripen Paul, Atul Chatterjee, Sujit Sarkar |
| Length | 120 min. |
| Black & White |
Cast:
| Arindan Mukherjee | Uttam Kumar |
|---|---|
| Aditi Sen Gupta | Sharmila Tagore |
| Shankar | Somen Bose |
| Makunda Lahiri | Bireswar Sen |
| Jyoti | Bimal Ghosh |
| Biresh | Premangsu Bose |
| Promila | Sumita Sanyal |
| Mr. Bose | Ranjit Sen |
| Manorama | Bharati Devi |
| Bulbul | Lali Chowdhury |
| Pritish Sarkar | Kamu Mukherjee |
| Molly | Susmita Mukherjee |
| Ajoy | Subrata Sen Sharma |
| Sefalika | Jamuna Sinha |
| Kamal Misra | Hiralal |
| Aghore | Jogesh Chatterjee |
| Swamiji | Satyaj Banerjee |
| Conductor | Gopal Dey |
When all the flights are booked, Arindan, a star of Bengali films, is forced to take the train from Calcutta to New Delhi in order to receive an award. Habituated to admiring crowds around him it is a young journalist, Aditi, who engages his attention. Lucidly, and critical of the function of a star, she interrogates him and compels him to re-examine his life. Through the bond that develops between them, the hero reviews his actor's life, his moments of strength and moments of crisis, and is again stricken by doubt. In the end, the journalist chooses to suppress the confidences the hero has revealed in order to allow him to preserve his public image.
