The Holy Man) is a 1965 Indian film directed by Satyajit Ray, based on a short story Birinchibaba by Rajshekhar Basu.

[1] After the death of his wife, Gurupada Mitra (Prasad Mukherjee), an advocate, has not been at peace.

He and his daughter Buchki (Gitali Roy), meet Birinchi (Charuprakash Ghosh).

He tells stories from the past; about his arguments with Plato about time, how he taught E=mc2 to Einstein, and was on first-name terms with Jesu (Christ) and Gautam (Buddha).

To teach him a lesson, she tells Satya that she is going to leave him and become a disciple of Birinchi Baba.