Calcutta 71 (1972)

  • NR
  • 10/12/1972 (IN)
  • Drama
  • 1h 56m

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.

Manik Bandopadhyay

Story

Probodh Sanyal

Story

Mrinal Sen

Writer, Director

Samaresh Basu

Story

Cast

Satya Banerjee's headshot

Satya Banerjee

Ranjit Mallick's headshot

Ranjit Mallick

Ranjit Mallick
Haradhan Bandopadhyay's headshot

Haradhan Bandopadhyay

Judge
Madhabi Mukherjee's headshot

Madhabi Mukherjee

Utpal Dutt's headshot

Utpal Dutt

Karuna Banerjee's headshot

Karuna Banerjee

Rudraprasad Sengupta's headshot

Rudraprasad Sengupta

Man at the Party
Gita Sen's headshot

Gita Sen

The Mother in the 1953 Story

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