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Based on Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s play ‘An Enemy of the People’, ‘Ganashatru’ is one of the few Satyajit Ray’s films that was made totally in studio. Set in a small town in Bengal, it’s a story of an honest and conscientious doctor who raises the issue of contamination in the holy water of a popular temple which is causing a pandemic in the town. However, the politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen whose vested interests are hampered due to the revelation of the doctor including his brother pressurise him not to raise the issue and not to talk about closing the temple for repair works. ‘Ganashatru’ is also a story of how religious faith of people is misused by the politicians to spread superstitions leading to a public health and environmental crisis.

'Hyderabad Cinephiles' invites one and all to the screening and discussion of this Ray’s masterpiece that is chillingly relevant to the times we are living in.