Rent Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)

Name: Days and Nights in the Forest
Rating: 4.1

4.1 of 5 from 46 ratings

1h 55min

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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.
Actors:: Sharmila Tagore, Kaberi Bose, Simi Garewal, Soumitra Chatterjee, Subhendu Chatterjee, Robi Ghosh, Samit Bhanja, Pahadi Sanyal, Premashish Sen, Samar Nag, Khairatilal Lahori, Dibyendu Chatterjee, Aparna Sen
Directors:: Satyajit Ray
Producers:: Asim Dutta, Nepal Dutta
Writers:: Sunil Gangopadhyay, Satyajit Ray
Aka:: Aranyer Din Ratri
Genres:: Bollywood, Classics, Drama
Countries:: India

BBFC:

Release Date:

28/09/2026

Run Time:

116 minutes

Languages:

Bengali LPCM Mono

Subtitles:

English

Formats:

Pal

Aspect Ratio:

Full Screen 1.37:1

Colour:

B & W

BLU-RAY Regions:

Bonus:

Introduction by filmmaker Wes Anderson
Making-of program featuring archival and new interviews with director Satyajit Ray, actors Sharmila Tagore and Rabi Ghosh, and cinematographer Soumendu Roy
Conversation about Ray and the film's restoration featuring Anderson, Tagore, and Film Heritage Foundation founder-director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
Trailer