Three Daughters (1961)
Three stories with three central female characters linking the stories together. The first one concerns an orphan girl who grows attached to the postmaster she is caring for after he teaches her to read and write. The second one is a supernatural tale about a woman obsessed with the jewels her husband buys for her. The final one follows a young man who falls for an unconventional girl from his new village instead of his arranged bride, the daughter of a respectable family.
- Released
- 1961-05-05
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Runtime
- 173 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Satyajit Ray, Satyajit Ray
- TMDB rating
- 7.6/10 from 22 votes
Cast
- Anil Chatterjee as Nandal (segment "The Postmaster")
- Chandana Banerjee as Ratan (segment "The Postmaster")
- Nripati Chatterjee as Bishey (segment "The Postmaster")
- Khagen Pathak as Khagen (segment "The Postmaster")
- Gopay Roy as Bilash (segment "The Postmaster")
- Kali Bannerjee as Phanibhushan Saha (segment "The Lost Jewels")
- Kanika Majumdar as Monimalika (segment "The Lost Jewels")
- Kumar Roy as Madhusudhan (segment "The Lost Jewels")
- Gobinda Chakravarti as Schoolmaster (segment "The Lost Jewels")
- Soumitra Chatterjee as Amulya (segment "The Conclusion")
- Aparna Sen as Mrinmoyee "Pagli" (segment "The Conclusion")
- Sita Mukherjee as Jogmaya (segment "The Conclusion")