Devi

Dir. Satyajit Ray, Bengali with English subtitles, 1960

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Sat 28 April 2007 // 19:30 / Cinema

Devi focuses on a young woman who is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal landlord, envisions her as the Goddess Kali - a great depiction of the crisis faced by people struggling to be modern yet encumbered with the traditional systems and the spectre of having been colonized.