Seemabaddha (Company Limited)
Company Limited is the second film of the Calcutta Trilogy that Ray made in the 1970s. The other two were The Adversary and The Middle Man.
Direction: Satyajit Ray
Screenplay: Satyajit Ray, based on the eponymous novel by Mani Shankar Mukherjee
Cinematography: Soumendu Roy
Editing: Dulal Dutta
Principal Cast: Barun Chanda, Parumita Chowdhury, Sharmila Tagore, Harindranath Chatterjee
Year: 1971
35 mm
Format: Black and White
Length: 112 mins
Company Limited is the second film of the Calcutta Trilogy that Ray made in the 1970s. The other two were The Adversary and The Middle Man. All three films study the effects of the big city, Calcutta, on Bengal’s educated youth and the price it extracts from them.
Shyamal, the sales director of an English firm, hopes to win the job of company director, but must compete with a colleague. Towards this end, he has to make number of compromises that go against his social and moral upbringing. His sister-in-law, Sudarsana, who has arrived to spend a few days with them, gains a clear insight into the personality of her brother-in-law.
The storytelling has all the hallmarks of Ray’s style and is interwoven with a feeling of humour and irony.The film won the President`s Gold Medal at the National Film Awards in New Delhi, 1972 and the FIPRESCI Award at Venice International Film Festival, the same year.