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Ek Din Pratidin (1979) Also Known As: A Day Like Any Other Country: India Language: Bengali Year: 1979 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama
Description The bread-winning daughter in a middle-class family fails to return from work one evening. The night begins with worries at home, followed by midnight searches and finally a deepening crisis arising out of economic and moral constraints prevalent in the society. Yet the film speaks of hope, of strength hidden behind despair.
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Cast: Mamata Shankar, Sreela Majumdar, Gita Sen, Satya Bannerjee, Biplab Chatterjee, Arun Mukherjee, Sova Sen, Umanath Bhattacharya, Koushik Sen | | Director: Mrinal Sen Music Director: B V Karanth
| | 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 | | Director: Mrinal Sen Music Director: B V Karanth
| | Interview (1971) Country: India Language: Bengali Year: 1971 Color/BW: BW Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama
Description A dawn to dusk account of a young man in search of a job. This is his day of an interview in a swell Indo-British firm where, logically, he has to look his best. His only suit, a complete one, is in the laundry, and as luck would have it, all city laundries are on strike from that morning. The film is an intense search for a new suit to be borrowed from any of his friends, the loss of a good one procured that way, again a frantic search, and finally the interview - all erratic blending of fictional narrative, news reel coverage and near-cinema-verite type documentation. The film ends with a strange interview between the dejected young man and an unseen spectator who has watched him since the film started. And at last the film arrives at a moment of judgment - that of the value-world.
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Cast: Ranjit Mullik, Karuna Bannerjee, Shekhar Chatterjee, Bulbul Mukherjee, Umanath Bhattacharya | | Director: Mrinal Sen Music Director: Vijay Raghava Rao
| | | Format: DVD Label: Angel Video Catalog No: AVDVD SET 013 DVD Region: All Region No Of Disks: 3 Subtitles: English Video: NTSC | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
