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Ghare Baire is a 1985 film by Bengali director Satyajit Ray, based upon the novel Ghare Baire by Rabindranath Tagore. It features Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, Jennifer Kendal and Swatilekha Chatterjee, married Sengupta. Ray prepared a script for it in the 1940s, long before he made his... first film Pather Panchali. It deals with a subject that has often appeared in Ray's work; the emancipation of women, and what it does to them and to the men who love them. The film was in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. The story is set in early 20th century India in the estate of the rich Bengali noble Nikhil , and in the chaotic aftermath of Lord Curzon's partition of Bengal into Muslim and Hindu states, when the nationalist movement is trying to impose a boycott against all foreign goods .
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An autobiographical novel is a form of novel using autofiction techniques, or the merging of autobiographical and fiction elements. The literary... technique is distinguished from an autobiography or memoir by the stipulation of being fiction. Because an autobiographical novel is partially fiction, the author does not ask the reader to expect the text to fulfill the "autobiographical pact." Names and locations are often changed and events are recreated to make them more dramatic but the story still bears a close resemblance to that of the author's life. While the events of the author's life are recounted, there is no pretense of exact truth. Events may be exaggerated or altered for artistic or thematic purposes. The term autobiographical novel is difficult to define. Novels that portray settings and/or situations with which the author is familiar are not necessarily autobiographical. Neither are novels that include aspects drawn from the author’s life as minor plot details. To be considered an autobiographical by most standards, there must be a protagonist modeled after the author and a central plotline that mirrors events in his or her life.
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