Name: Bihar Ke Darshaniya Sthan
Genre: Documentary
Rating: 8

A short Indian documentary film released in 1955, directed by Ritwik Ghatak, and written and narrated by historian Radha Krishna Choudhary. It's an evocative survey of the history of the Northeast Indian State of Bihar (bordering Nepal) through the architectural ruins of it's present. As we alight on temples, forts, caves, pathways, palaces and tombs (including one which seems to have inspired the Taj Mahal) we get to meditate on the past and time with the help of Choudhary's poetic narration.

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