TMDb Rating
8.8/10
8 verified votes
Calcutta 71 (1972)
Drama
116 min
Plot Summary
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.
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DramaMrinal SenMadhabi MukherjeeGita Sen1972
Director
Mrinal Sen
Top Cast
Madhabi MukherjeeGita SenBinota RoyRanjit MallickUtpal Dutt
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