'' Ghare Baire '' ( '' The Home and the World '' ) is a 1984 Indian Bengali romantic drama film by director Satyajit Ray , based upon the novel '' Ghare Baire '' by Rabindranath Tagore . It features Soumitra Chatterjee , Victor Banerjee , Jennifer Kendal ( in her last film appearance ) and Swatilekha Chatterjee ( 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 . At the 32nd National Film Awards , it won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali
1984 Cannes Film Festival
1984 Cannes Film Festival
Ghare Baire (film)