TEEN KANYA
THREE DAUGHTERS
1961,
Janus Films,
174 min,
India,
Dir: Satyajit Ray
To commemorate the centennial of writer Rabindranath Tagore, director Satyajit Ray adapted the Nobel Prize-winner’s stories in this entertaining anthology. “The Postmaster” looks at the all-too-brief bond between a Calcutta man who takes a job as a village postmaster and the little girl who works as his housekeeper; one of Ray’s smallest but brightest gems. “Monihara (The Lost Jewels),” a ghost story about a jewelry-obsessed woman and her husband, had been edited out of the international release but is included in this restoration. In “Samapti (The Conclusion),” Soumitra Chatterjee plays a college graduate whose mother has a dull wife picked out for him - until a madcap young woman catches his eye. In Bengali with English subtitles.