Aranyer Din Ratri () is a novel by the Bengali author Sunil Gangopadhyay. It was his second published novel. The plot follows four unemployed youths who, disillusioned with city life, retreat to a forest for a week—only to confront the very realities they sought to leave behind.
In popular culture In 1970, Aranyer Din Ratri was adapted into a film of the same name by Satyajit Ray, starring Soumitra Chatterjee, Rabi Gosh, Sharmila Tagore, among others. The novel is mentioned in Neel Mukherjee's The Lives of Others (2014) as one of its Bengali literary references.
References