Calcutta 71

Calcutta 71

1972 · 116 min · ★ 8.6 · Drama

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.

Directed by Mrinal Sen · Written by Mrinal Sen

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Madhabi Mukherjee
Gita Sen The Mother in the 1953 Story
Binota Roy
Ranjit Mallick Ranjit Mallick
Utpal Dutt
Anubha Gupta
Karuna Banerjee
Suchita Ray Chaudhury
Ajitesh Bandopadhyay Politician
Subhash Dutta Train Passanger
Satya Banerjee
Haradhan Bandyopadhyay Judge

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