A Brahmo & Brahmins

Though Satyajit Ray, a Brahmo, started his film career by making films about an impoverished Brahmin family (Apu Trilogy), towards whom everyone would sympathize, towards the end of his career, he made "Sadgati", a Hindi telefilm, whose Brahmin Character, is a completely unsympathetic man.

In between, in many films, he depicts the lingering respect for Brahmins still present in Bengali milieu. 

In "Ashani Sanket", the Brahmin priest, goes out to buy rice during the Bengal Famine. Even though he is willing to pay, none is to be had. But a hoarder, though refusing to sell, invites him to have as much rice as he can eat (of course cooking it himself, as he is a Brahmin).

In "Jana Aranya", the educated unemployed Somnath, meets an acquaintance who suggests he become self-employed & points out a ground-nut vendor as an example, but adds, being a Brahmin, he cannot be a nut vendor, & advises him to become a sales agent, which Somnath becomes. (It is quite another matter that to bag a lucrative contract, Somnath has to pimp his friend's sister, hardly a Brahminical activity!)