TY  - ADVS
AU  - Ray,Satyajit 
AU  - Soumitra Chatterjee
AU  - Santosh Mitra
AU  - Shelly Pal
ED  - Max Tech Entertainment
TI  - Ashani Sanket 
SN  - 1572521775
U1  - 791.4372 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Calcutta  
PB  - Angel Video 
KW  - Feature films -- India, Balaka Movies, Drama - Film,  World War II,
N1  - Based on the novel "Ashani Sanket" by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay; All regions DVD. Colour recording system:NTSC; The film is set in 1943-44, when the famine struck Bengal during the British rule in India. It was a man made famine. As the British government cornered the civilian food supply for its armies, the people starved. The famine claimed the lives of five million people. The story takes place in a small village during the World War II. The famine affects the lives of the families in different ways.
Gangacharan, an educated Brahmin, has recently arrived to settle in the village with his wife. He decides to teach and conduct religious ceremonies in exchange for being supported by the villagers. The villagers readily agree. His wife, Ananga, is a sensuous woman. She is sensitive, giving, and devoted to her husband.

The film is set in a village in the Indian province of Bengal during World War II, and examines the effect of the Great Famine of 1943 on the villages of Bengal through the eyes of a young Brahmin doctor-teacher, Gangacharan, and his wife, Anaga. Ray shows the human scale of a cataclysmic event that killed more than 3 million people; Satyajit Ray; Soumitra Chatterjee; Santosh Mitra; Shelly Pal;
UR  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzoQwr4InZg
ER  -