Bharati Devi - Manorama (Mr. Bose's wife) Lali Chowdhury - Bulbul (Mr. Bose's daughter) Kamu Mukherjee - Pritish Sarkar Susmita Mukherjee - Molly (Mr. Sarkar's wife) Subrata Sensharma - Ajoy Jamuna Sinha - Sefalika (Ajoy's wife) Satya Banerjee - Swami of WWWW organisation Hiralal - Kamal Misra Soundtrack Production This is Satyajit Ray's second original screenplay after Kanchunjungha 1962 which he wrote. Ray wrote the screenplay of the film at Darjeeling in May, where he went during off-season from filming. Even then he had Uttam Kumar in his mind for the lead, but not as an actor, rather a "phenomenon". The film was shot in the latter half of 1965. In a letter by Ray in 1966, he wrote: Some critics says that it's loosely inspired from Ingmer Bargman Wild Strawberries. Many people thought generally that the film shooted in train. But originally the film shooted in NT Studio (New Theaters) 1 and 2 both. The cinematographer Banshi Chandra Gupta personally visited in Santragachi junction to see train comperment making. Later he bring train making parts and build up a luxurious Rajdhani Express in studio and the outside train sequences, shots and sound are taken from original train journey from Kolkata to Delhi when Banshi himself captured that totally. The film shooted also in Howrah Station and that tea drinking scenes in station of Uttam are taken from Khanyan station. In this same scenes Sharmila shots are taken from studio. Totally this gave to audience a real fillings. That's is the brilliance of Bansi. Before the shooting of Nayak Uttam suffered in chicken pox. So there was a black spots on his check. The first day of shoot Ray told Uttam to shoot without makeup Uttam generally shocked. He suggests to Ray that he had a pox spot so to give the permissions of makeup but Ray reassured him, saying he would give him some make up during the later stages shooting. Atfirst Ray selected Madhabi Mukherjee for Aditi role. But Madhabi rejected that offer some personal reasons. Later Ray didn't get any matching artists for the Aditi role then he selected Sharmila Tagore, That time Tagore was busy in hindi films. According to Ray's son Sandip Ray Sharmila was dating with Tiger Pataudi that time. Tiger also came to see the shooting. Ray become very happy to heard that they will marry. In one scenario, it is better to