Filmbàr screening of Satyajit Ray's Devi (1960) at Research and Publication Centre (RPC) on Friday, July 10, 2026 at 5:00 pm.
In the countryside of India, Umaprasad has been happily married with his seventeen year-old wife Doyamoyee for three years. They live in the house of Umaprasad's father Kalikinkar Roy, who worships the goddess Kali, with Umaprasad's elder brother Taraprasad, his wife Harasundari and their child Khoka. Umaprasad has a conversation with Doyamoyee and explains that he will move to the big city to study English and she questions why he needs to travel to go to school. Sometime later, Kalikinkar has a dream that Doyamoyee is the reincarnation of Kali and the locals come to Kalikinkar's house to worship her. Doyamoyee asks Harasundari to write to Umaprasad and soon he returns home. But Doyamoyee has been brainwashed with the situation and begins to believe that she might be the reincarnation of Kali leading the family to a tragedy.
The screening will be followed by an informal discussion over tea. Lift is operational.
Address: Research and Publication Centre (RPC), 2nd Floor, 65 Main Boulevard Gulberg, Lahore (next to Standard Chartered Bank, above Indesign showroom).
Rashed Rahman
Editor, Pakistan Monthly Review (PMR) (link: pakistanmonthlyreview.com)
Director, Research and Publication Centre (RPC) (on Facebook)
Email: rashed.rahman1@gmail.com
Cells: +92 302 8482737 & +92 333 4216335
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