Three Daughters (1961)
Teen Kanya
114 min
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.
- Release date
- May 5, 1961
- Country of origin
- India
Where to watch
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Cast
- Anil Chatterjee as Nandal (segment: Postmaster)
- Chandana Banerjee as Ratan (segment: Postmaster)
- Nripati Chatterjee as Bishey (segment: Postmaster)
- Khagen Pathak as Khagen (segment: Postmaster)
- Kali Bannerjee as Phanibhushan Saha (segment "The Lost Jewels")
- Kanika Majumdar as Monimalika (segment "The Lost Jewels")
- Kumar Roy as Madhusudhan (segment "The Lost Jewels")
- Govinda Chakravarti as Schoolmaster (segment "The Lost Jewels")
- Soumitra Chatterjee as Amulya (segment "The Conclusion")
- Aparna Sen as Mrinmoyee (segment: Samapti)
- Sita Mukherjee as Jogmaya (segment: Samapti)
- Gita Dey as Nistarini (segment "The Conclusion")
- Santosh Dutta as Khori (segment "The Conclusion")
- Gopal Sen as Bilash (segment: Postmaster)
- Krishnakamal Bhattacharya as (segment: Postmaster)
- Haridhan Nag as (segment: Postmaster)
- Narayan Ghosh as (segment: Postmaster)
Crew
- Satyajit Ray · Director
- Satyajit Ray · Writer
- Rabindranath Tagore · Writer
- Satyajit Ray · Producer
- Satyajit Ray · Composer
- Soumendu Roy · Cinematographer
- Dulal Dutta · Editor
- Bansi Chandragupta · Production designer