Calcutta 71

Calcutta 71 (1972)

কলকাতা ৭১

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.

Date of release
1972-10-12
TMDB
8.6 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 56m
Genres
Drama
Director
Mrinal Sen
Collection
Calcutta Trilogy

Casting

Interesting facts

Calcutta 71 is a 1972 Bengali film directed by noted Indian art film director Mrinal Sen. This film is considered to be the second film of Mrinal Sen's Calcutta trilogy, the other two being Interview, and Padatik. The film is a collection of stories depicting the 1970s. The Naxalite movement, starvation of common people, and social and political corruption are shown. There are four disjunct subplots shown in the film.

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