Title of film : Sukumar Ray
Cast & crew :
Producer : Government of West Bengal
Editor : Dulal Dutta
Cast :
Synopsis : With Soumitra Chatterjee as a narrator, the documentary begins by showcasing some of the drawings by Sukumar Ray, drawn for the children’s books “Abol Tabol”, “HaJaBaRaLa” and a short story, “Heshoram Hushiarer Diary” (The Diary of Heshoram: The Clever). Explaining the lineage of the Ray family starting from Hari Krishna Roy Chowdhury and Upendrakishore Ray, the documentary describes initial days of Sukumar Ray, his formation of the "Nonsense Group" in the college and publication of handwritten humorous magazine, "Thirty Two and a Half Fries". Utpal Dutt enacts as a teacher from Ray's first published poetical "nonsense"-play “Jhala Pala” (The Cacophony) and provides humorous explanation of the sentence in Bengali. Soumitra Chatterjee appears as Rama, the avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu, in a spoof based on an Indian epic “Ramayana”, “Lakshmaner Shaktishe” (The Magical spear of Lakshmana).
