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Monihara: Satyajit Ray's sole horror film induces the scariest emotion of all — hopelessness

The story of Satyajit Ray's Monihara begins as dusk falls, when a village schoolmaster walks through the compound of an abandoned and derelict mansion and comes and sits on the banks of a river. There, he meets a stranger, and tells him that he has been writing the strange and rather tragic history of the former owner of the mansion — the rich businessman Phanibhushan, and his young wife, the beautiful Monimalika.

Postmaster: How Rabindranath Tagore's poignant tale became one of Satyajit Ray's masterpieces

In Postmaster, Satyajit Ray tells the beautiful and heart-wrenching story of a 12-year-old orphan servant girl named Ratan