DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST [4K ULTRA HD & BLU-RAY] (CRITERION COLLECTION)

One of director Satyajit Ray''''s greatest achievements begins with the deceptively easy grace of a buddy comedy'only to give way to darker moral shading. Seeking a weekend escape from the city, four friends from Kolkata embark on a driving trip to the countryside, where their urban entitlement and prejudices are gradually exposed. Among these young bachelors is the overconfident Ashim (Soumitra Chatterjee), who finds his self-assurance shaken by Aparna (the radiant Sharmila Tagore), an enigmatic young woman whose cool intellect conceals turbulent emotional depths. Filmed luminously amid the sound-dappled splendor of the woodlands of India''''s Palamu region, Days and Nights in the Forest deconstructs the masculine ego and India''''s fraught class divisions with elegant complexity.