Satyajit Ray is widely regarded as one of the best filmmakers in the world, and the Oscar winning director had been a huge inspiration for some of the biggest names in the world of movies. He is even considered by many the best filmmaker India has ever produced.
Beside making movies, he was also an amazing writer who produced hundreds of classic stories, mostly for children. He even created some characters that went on to become eternal in the upcoming days. Pradosh Chandra Mittar, who is mostly famous as Feluda, is arguably his biggest creation ever.
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He has also created a character of a scientist named Professor Trilokeshwar Shanku. But there is a character created by him does not get as much spotlight as the previously mentioned two, and that is Tarini Khuro. There are a number of stories featuring this character, and one of the most famous short stories about this character is Golpo Boliye Tarini Khuro.
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This story was written back in 1988, and it was first published in 1994 in a Durga Puja special edition of Anandamala. It was a very short story, and adapting it into a full fledged movie was never a very easy job. But famous director and actor Ananth Mahadevan did the unthinkable by adapting it into a nearly 2 hour movie named The Storyteller.
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About winning actor Paresh Rawal, the lead role of Tarini Khuro, and award winning actor Adil Hussain was the other lead roles for this movie. It is presently available on JioHotstar. You are likely to get a free subscription of JioHotstar if you are a Jio SIM user.
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The movie, on the other hand, was really good and fun to watch, however, Paresh Rawal looked a little mismatched in the character of a Bengali middle aged man. Being a Gujarati himself, when he is trying to give his dialogues in Bengali sounds quite weak. But overall, The Storyteller was an excellent experience, and everybody should try watching it.
