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Nayak

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Nayak	comment	Nayak ("The Hero", sometimes referred to as The Hero) is a 1966 film from India, directed by Satyajit Ray.Arindam Mukherjee is a Bengali actor who has been invited to accept a prestigious award. He takes a train to the capital and, while on the train, meets a broad variety of people. Many of them are star-struck, but one who isn't is Aditi Sengupta, a young journalist who edits a women's magazine. Aditi is not impressed by movies or movie stars, and she seems to regard Arindam as faintly ridiculous. Arindam for his part takes a liking to her, partly because she's good looking and partly because she isn't impressed by him.A fellow passenger suggests that Aditi interview Arindam. Her women's magazine is struggling so Aditi gets Arindam talking while she surreptitiously takes notes. Arindam, who on the surface seems smoothly confident, gradually reveals more and more of his doubts and insecurities over the course of a long conversation. Aditi begins to wonder if publishing the interview would be a good idea.
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Nayak / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Nayak / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Arindam says, about his film career, that "I always played the hero."
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Nayak / int_19f527df	type	Blowing Smoke Rings
Nayak / int_19f527df	comment	Blowing Smoke Rings: Arindam does this while smoking in his train car, as he projects the essence of cool.
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Nayak / int_2e6a41e0	type	Gratuitous English
Nayak / int_2e6a41e0	comment	Gratuitous English: It seems to be a habit, at least among the educated classes in Bengal, to pepper conversation with English. When Arindam's manager tells him, in Bengali, that his presence in a film doesn't guarantee box-office success, he says "Isn't that enough?" in English. Maybe 20% of the dialogue is in English, as multiple characters keep dropping English sentences into conversation.
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Nayak / int_3e58c24d	type	Trade Your Passion for Glory
Nayak / int_3e58c24d	comment	Trade Your Passion for Glory: When Arindam was a struggling actor he was best friends with a left-wing radical named Biresh. Years later, after Arindam is a big movie star, Biresh looks him up and tries to get him to go to a protest rally like they used to in the old days. Arindam refuses, and as he tells the story to Aditi, he says he could tell that Biresh lost respect for him that day.
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Nayak / int_3f4613f8	type	Smart People Wear Glasses
Nayak / int_3f4613f8	comment	Smart People Wear Glasses: Aditi wears glasses, which mark her out as a smart, serious journalist, but also somewhat more subtly suggest that she's smug.
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Nayak / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Nayak / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: There's a lot of talk about the movies and the state of Indian filmmaking. Aditi sniffs that the movies aren't realistic. Arindam agrees, saying that women are hardly likely to burst into song at the end of a love affair. That's a cliche of mainstream Indian cinema but such fanciful moments were absent from the films of Satyajit Ray, whose movies were grounded in realism.
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Nayak / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Nayak / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: In the latter part of the film, Arindam's stories to Aditi about his film career are accompanied by a series of flashbacks. One flashback shows a veteran actor who, on Arindam's first day on a movie set, insulted him and criticized his performance in what was basically a show of dominance. Another flashback set a few years later shows that veteran actor, his career having gone down the drain, asking Arindam for a part only for Arindam to ignore him.
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Nayak / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
Nayak / int_615fdb1f	comment	Dream Sequence: Arindam has a dream where he is walking through a whole landscape of money, until he starts drowning in money quicksand. A man named Shankar appears and Arindam cries out for help. The meaning of this dream is soon revealed when Arindam tells Aditi that Shankar was his old theater director, who urged him not to go into movies. Later he has another dream where Promila leads him into a restaurant that is actually just tables in a field, where he's accosted by another man. This is Arindam dreaming about the incident where he punched Promila's husband.
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Nayak / int_814356cb	type	White-Dwarf Starlet
Nayak / int_814356cb	comment	White-Dwarf Starlet: One flashback shows Arindam, a newbie in film, getting bullied by an established actor named Mukunda Lahiri. Another flashback set much later has Mukunda show up at Arindam's house to relate how his career went down the toilet and he hasn't had an acting job in four years. He begs Arindam to get him a part but Arindam blows him off.
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Nayak / int_928e13b9	type	He's Dead, Jim
Nayak / int_928e13b9	comment	He's Dead, Jim: Shankar, Arindam's mentor in the theater, falls over. Arindam shouts his name, and someone else, about three seconds after Arindam hit the ground, says "No point calling him, he's gone." RIP Arindam.
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Nayak / int_a672255e	type	Doing It for the Art
Nayak / int_a672255e	comment	Doing It for the Art: In-Universe, Discussed Trope. When Shankar the theater director finds out that Arindam is auditioning for a movie, he gives Arindam a long lecture in which he says that movies aren't real art, and an actor can only give a real performance on a stage with an audience watching, as opposed to acting for a camera and having it all chopped up and edited.
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Nayak / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Nayak / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: A subplot features Sarkar, an advertising exec, and his wife Molly. He is bald and pudgy and in late middle age and she is gorgeous and in her 20s. Sarkar proposes that his wife flirt with a businessman on the train in order to get his business, and Molly is disgusted.
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Nayak / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Nayak / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Arindam chats with an irascible old man named Chatterjee who says he's 89 years old and Indian movies have been bad since the talkies came in—but he did see and like How Green Was My Valley.
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Nayak / int_ce165390	type	Casting Couch
Nayak / int_ce165390	comment	Casting Couch: It's strongly implied—not stated, because Indian censorship of the era wouldn't allow it, but implied—that Promila had sex with Arindam in return for him getting her started in movies.
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Nayak / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
Nayak / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: In a flashback, the camera shows Arindam's fists slamming a table as he vows that he will make it to "the top!" of the acting profession. Cut to a closeup of Arindam's hands lighting a cigarette in the present day as he tells the story.
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Nayak / int_eed6d1c3	type	The Glasses Gotta Go
Nayak / int_eed6d1c3	comment	The Glasses Gotta Go: Aditi briefly takes off her glasses, showing her lovely face, and an admiring Arindam says "You look nice without your glasses." Not coincidentally, she wears her glasses less and less as Arindam bares his soul and they make a connection.
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