| Parashuram (1978) Also Known As: The Man with the Axe Country: India Language: Bengali Year: 1978 Color/BW: BW Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Description Carrying an axe on his shoulder and preserving the strange memory of his encounter with a tiger, a rural migrant comes to the city and shares a temporary shelter with an old beggar in an abandoned graveyard. There are others, a vast lot of rural migrants, who, hoping against all hopes, spread out in the sprawling city and live sub-human existence.
Appears a girl from nowhere. She is a queer drifter, deserted by her husband, duped by another man and now in search of a "home". She comes to the graveyard and enjoys a new life with the man with the axe. Later, the girl disappears into darkness, perhaps, for a better home.
The man is in frightful loneliness. And, there, in a strange fantasy, he wages a fierce battle with darkness. In darkness he meets his adversaries.
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Cast: Arun Mukherjee, Sreela Majumdar, Sajal Roychoudhury, Bibhas Chakraborty, Reba Roy Chowdhury |
