Nayak

Nayak (The Hero) 1966

Year - 1966
Producer - R. D. Bansal & Co. (R. D. B. Productions)
Screenplay - Satyajit Ray
Photography - Subrata Mitra
Editor - Dulal Dutta
Art Director - Bansi Chandragupta
Music - Satyajit Ray
Sound - Nripen Paul, Atul Chatterjee, Sujit Sarkar
Length - 120 min.
Print - Black & White

Cast:
Arindan Mukherjee - Uttam Kumar
Aditi Sen Gupta - Sharmila Tagore
Shankar - Somen Bose
Makunda Lahiri - Bireswar Sen
Jyoti - Bimal Ghosh
Biresh - Premangsu Bose
Promila - Sumita Sanyal
Mr. Bose - Ranjit Sen
Manorama - Bharati Devi
Bulbul - Lali Chowdhury
Pritish Sarkar - Kamu Mukherjee
Molly - Susmita Mukherjee
Ajoy - Subrata Sen Sharma
Sefalika - Jamuna Sinha
Kamal Misra - Hiralal
Aghore - Jogesh Chatterjee
Swamiji - Satyaj Banerjee
Conductor - Gopal Dey

When all the flights are booked, Arindan, a star of Bengali films, is forced to take the train from Calcutta to New Delhi in order to receive an award. Habituated to admiring crowds around him it is a young journalist, Aditi, who engages his attention. Lucidly, and critical of the function of a star, she interrogates him and compels him to re-examine his life. Through the bond that develops between them, the hero reviews his actor's life, his moments of strength and moments of crisis, and is again stricken by doubt. In the end, the journalist chooses to suppress the confidences the hero has revealed in order to allow him to preserve his public image.