Kanchenjungha
During a Darjeeling holiday, an affluent Bengali family finds its carefully maintained social order unsettled by private desires and shifting relationships.
Overview
An upper-class family escapes to the serene hills, but their vacation reveals deeper tensions.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Moderate
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- None
- contemplative
- restrained
- wistful
- quiet afternoon
- classic cinema viewing
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The upper-class Bengali family's Darjeeling vacation provides the setting for interpersonal strain and shifting relationships.
The Darjeeling setting near Kanchenjungha makes the mountain landscape and its changing visibility central to the film's atmosphere.
The vacation centers on an upper-class Bengali family whose personal interactions are shaped by social status and convention.
The credited characters include multiple members and associates of the Chaudhuri family, supporting a distributed perspective on the vacation.
Films like Kanchenjungha, and why
The Ice Storm
observational family tensions, restrained social drama, and psychologically nuanced character interactions
Autumn Sonata
upper-class family conflict, marital unease, and carefully controlled ensemble drama
The Home and the World
socially observant Bengali drama with intimate humanism and understated emotional revelation
Movie Details
- Director
- Satyajit Ray
- Release Date
- 1962-05-11
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 (16)
Cast
- Chhabi Biswas
- Karuna Banerjee
- Pahadi Sanyal
- Anil Chatterjee
- Anubha Gupta
- N. Viswanathan
- Haridhan Mukhopadhyay
- Alokananda Roy
- Arun Mukherjee
- Subrata Sensharma
Common questions
- What is Kanchenjungha about?
- During a Darjeeling holiday, an affluent Bengali family finds its carefully maintained social order unsettled by private desires and shifting relationships.
- What is Kanchenjungha like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Kanchenjungha as measured, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Kanchenjungha violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in Kanchenjungha.
- Which films are like Kanchenjungha?
- Films with a similar feel include The Ice Storm, Autumn Sonata, and The Home and the World.
- How long is Kanchenjungha?
- Kanchenjungha runs 102 minutes.
