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Days and Nights in the Forest 4K UHD + Blu-Ray (US Import)
Criterion

Pre-order - Release date: 29.09.2026

Original title: Aranyer Din Ratri

Year: 1970
Country: India
Region Code: 4K UHD: A/B/C; Blu-Ray: A
Contents: 4K UHD + Blu-Ray
EAN: 715515340519

Image: 1.37:1 (2160p)

HDR: -

Audio: Bengali

Subtitles: English

Age rating: Not Rated

Genre: Drama

Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Subhendu Chatterjee

Director: Satyajit Ray


Synopsis:

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 sun-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.

Extras:

• New 4K digital restoration—undertaken by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project at L’Immagine Ritrovata in collaboration with Film Heritage Foundation, Janus Films, and the Criterion Collection—with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Introduction by filmmaker Wes Anderson
• Making-of program featuring new and archival 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 Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Devika Girish