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Teen Kanya (Three Daughters)
| Year | 1961 |
|---|---|
| Producer | Satyajit Ray Productions |
| Distributor | Satyajit Ray Productions |
| Screenplay | Satyajit Ray |
| Based on | Three short stories: Postmaster, Monihara, and Samapti by Rabindranath Tagore |
| Photography | Soumendu Roy |
| Editor | Dulal Dutta |
| Art Director | Bansi Chandragupta |
| Music | Satyajit Ray |
| Sound | Durgadas Mitra |
| Length | Postmaster 56 min.; Monihara 61 min.; Samapti 56 min. |
| Black & White |
Cast for Postmaster:
| Nandalal | Anil Chatterjee |
|---|---|
| Ratan | Chandana Banerjee |
| Bisay | Nripati Chatterjee |
| Khagen | Khagen Pathak |
| Bilash | Gopal Roy |
Newly arrived from Calcutta, Nandalal takes a position as the Postmaster of a tiny rural village in Bengal. He has for his servant Ratan, a young orphan girl. She is illiterate, but he teaches her how to read and write. When Nandalal falls ill, Ratan nurses him back to health. Nonetheless, he dreams of returning to Calcutta. He gets ready to leave, oblivious to how attached to him Ratan has become. The narrative concludes with his departure, in which he is forced to confront his misunderstanding of Ratan's feelings when she snubs him.
Cast for Monihara:
| Phanibhusan Saha | Kali Banerjee |
|---|---|
| Manimalika | Kanika Majumdar |
| Madhusudhan | Kumar Roy |
| Schoolmaster and narrator | Gobinda Chakravarty |
Near a sumptuous mansion, now abandoned, the village schoolteacher recounts the history of a book he holds in his hand to a man seated on the stairs, concealed under a shawl. It seems that the house was formerly inhabited by a man whose wife had a consuming passion for jewels, which led to their ruin. After having listened to the tale, the man points out some errors in it; his authority comes from the fact that he is the husband's ghost.
Cast for Samapti:
| Amulya | Soumitra Chatterjee |
|---|---|
| Mrinmoyee | Aparna Das Gupta |
| Jogmaya | Sita Mukherjee |
| Nistarini | Gita Dey |
| Kisori | Santosh Dutta |
| Rakhal | Mihir Chakravarty |
| Haripada | Devi Neogy |
Returning from Calcutta after passing his exams, Amulya spends a few days with his mother, who has arranged for him to marry the daughter of a respectable family. The son resists and, in order to forestall the marriage, suggests a different bride: Mrinmoyee, a mischievous and contrary adolescent girl whose family has lost their home. The mother finally gives in. After a difficult wedding night, Amulya, instead of facing his new circumstances, hastily goes back to Calcutta. Realizing the nature of the situation, his mother pretends to be sick in order to bring him back for a more responsible reunion.
