The Stranger

May 7, 1991

1h 54m

★ 7.6

Overview

A well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

DD Productions

Erato Films

National Film Development Corporation of India

The Stranger Trailers

Cast

Manomohan Mitra

Utpal Dutt

Sudhindra Bose

Dipankar Dey

Anila Bose

Mamata Shankar

Satyaki Bose

Bikram Bhattacharya

Prithwish Sen Gupta

Dhritiman Chatterjee

Chhanda Rakshit

Subrata Chattopadhyay

Tridib Mukherjee

Promode Ganguly

Sital Sarkar

Ajit Banerjee

Ranjan Rakshit

Rabi Ghosh

Sourav Banerjee

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