Calcutta 71 (1972)

8.9/10 116 min Drama

Overview

The spirit of a condemned 20-year-old student wanders through time, linking together four stories of people struggling for survival in this gritty meditation on poverty, natural disaster and political strife in India. A middle-class family's home is no match for the monsoons, while another clan's morality is compromised when famine strikes. Young boys smuggle rice, and politicians pity the poor while living in the lap of luxury.

Cast

Madhabi Mukherjee

Binota Roy

Ranjit Mallick

Ranjit Mallick

Utpal Dutt

Anubha Gupta

Karuna Banerjee

Ajitesh Bandopadhyay

Politician

Satya Banerjee

Haradhan Bandyopadhyay

Judge

Rudraprasad Sengupta

Man at the Party

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