Three Daughters

(1961)

★ 7.6 IMDb · 21 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Year: 1961

Runtime: 173 мин

Country: India

Director: Satyajit Ray

Cast: Anil Chatterjee, Chandana Banerjee, Nripati Chatterjee, Khagen Pathak, Gopay Roy, Kali Bannerjee, Kanika Majumdar, Kumar Roy, Gobinda Chakravarti, Soumitra Chatterjee

Plot

Three stories with three central female characters linking the stories together. The first one concerns an orphan girl who grows attached to the postmaster she is caring for after he teaches her to read and write. The second one is a supernatural tale about a woman obsessed with the jewels her husband buys for her. The final one follows a young man who falls for an unconventional girl from his new village instead of his arranged bride, the daughter of a respectable family.