Word: sharmila
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...people in Devi (The Goddess) seem almost like temple carvings come to life before Ray's camera. A rich and deeply religious old patriarch dreams that his 17-year-old daughter-in-law (Sharmila Tagore) is an incarnation of a goddess. The girl, eager to please, allows herself to be decked out in flowers and jewels, to be ensconced in an altar outside her father-in-law's house where streams of peasants and holy men come to make obeisance. When a beggar's sick grandson recovers in her presence, the event is hailed as a miracle...
...photography is beautifully composed, always evocative of mood and moment (a crescent boat on a lonely, twilit river seems to whisper the young husband's hope of escape for himself and his wife). But it is Sharmila Tagore's remarkable eyes that steal the scene and fill the screen whenever she is in view: their match can be found only in peacocks' plumes...