Talk:Abhijan (1962 film)

Inline references
please someone add the reference to 1. and 2. in the article. these are "the inner eye" page 144 for both of them. thanks P. S if you can tell me how to add them in my talk page then I will be really grateful, and also please copy edit the articleJeroje 23:51, 21 July 2007 (UTC)jeroje

Plagiarism of Summary
Hasn't anyone noticed yet that this summary is taken directly from the SatyajitRay.org review? And that too without any citation, but with an external link to that review!

I would gladly write a review myself, if only I understood this film a little better. Abhijan completely confused me when I saw it (it didn't seem at all like his previous films!). --Kuaichik 05:38, 8 January 2007 (UTC)


 * But what right do I have to complain, really? I think I'll just write my own review (once I get to actually understand, in my own words, what was going on in this movie). --Kuaichik 07:11, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

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Supposed influence on Taxi Driver
On this article, it says the following in the Introduction section: "The protagonist Narasingh (played by Soumitra Chatterjee) was a direct influence for the character of the cynical cab driver Travis Bickle (played by Robert De Niro) in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976). Scorsese himself has credited Satyajit Ray as a major influence on his work."

This is patently false.

First up, Taxi Driver was written by Paul Schrader, not Martin Scorsese.

Then, you can check the Development on the Taxi Driver article here and at no point do they credit Abhijan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver#Development If you dig a bit, you can even find the writer describing how he came up with a taxi driver for a protagonist: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/taxi-driver-martin-scorsese-paul-schrader-story/ "It was that ulcer that led him to the hospital and, during his time of treatment, he conceived the metaphor the taxi cab: “That is what I was: this person in an iron box, a coffin, floating around the city, but seemingly alone,” he explained."

Finally, the article used as a reference for the Abhijan connection (https://web.archive.org/web/20090629210720/http://culturazzi.org/review/people-celebrities-artists/satyajit-ray-part2) does not say Abhijan's main character was "a direct influence" on Travis Bickle. Instead, it says this: "In Abhijaan (The Expedition) you have the prototype for Robert De Niro’s Tavis Bickle in Martin Scorsese’s acclaimed Taxi Driver – a cynical cab driver (played expertly by Ray’s favourite lead and regular Soumitra Chatterjee) who falls for a woman he is destined to loose."

So I suggest removing or reworking this sentence because at best, it's highly misleading. Mictateur (talk) 12:14, 17 October 2022 (UTC)