Satyajit Ray, in 1964 was requested to make an English-language film in a Bengali setting, by the American non-profit government-funded television programming distributor ‘Public Broadcasting Service’ (PBS); an idea that did not sit quite right with Ray, leading to him doing away with the spoken word and resulting in ‘Two’, a 12-minute black-and-white film that is an account of a child-like rivalry between two young boys trying to one-up each other, against the allegorical allusion to socio-economic disparities, the Vietnam war and the bittersweet facets of friendship and rivalry.
The film begins on a lonely, lazy afternoon, with a young
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