India Synopsis
আগন্তুক
A well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.
The 1990–1992 India Window
The Stranger holds position #10 of 38 India films in the 1990–1992 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 1990s India Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 1990s in India, 147 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Stranger premiered alongside 12 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 12 other India films in 1991.
The 161st India title from India we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1913).
Our India catalog contains 1,983 titles in total (1,904 films).
Audience Engagement
51 audience reviews — more than 81% of India films in our index.
Review volume (81th percentile) outruns trending popularity (20th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Stranger, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- inheritance · 4
- suspicion · 3
- interrogation · 2
- long lost relative · 2
- ethnographer · 1
- nativist · 1
- আগুন্তক · 1
- utpol dutta · 1
- stranger · 10
- calcutta · 8
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #244 of 1,983 India films indexed here (88th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +1.0 points above the India average of 6.4/10.
Among India Drama productions specifically: #183 of 1,132 (top 16%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | India |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | France, India |
| Original Language | Bengali |
| Spoken Languages | English, Bengali |
| Production Companies | DD Productions, Erato Films, Canal+, National Film Development Corporation of India |
| Runtime | 1h 54m |
| Release Date | May 7, 1991 |
| IMDb | tt0101279 |