Ajantrik

Bimal drives a taxi in a small provincial town. He lives alone, and his only companion is an old Chevrolet from the twenties that he has named Jagaddal. The car is close to scrap, it breaks down constantly, and the whole town laughs at him for it. But Bimal treats it as a living thing rather than a machine; he talks to it, gets angry with it, defends it. The film holds that bond between comedy and sadness, and it draws out of the same story how the new takes the place of the old in the provinces. Kali Bannerjee plays the lead in Ritwik Ghatak’s hundred and two minute Bengali film, completed in 1958.