Calcutta 71

Overview

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

Top cast

Madhabi Mukherjee

G

Gita Sen

The Mother in the 1953 Story

Binota Roy

Ranjit Mallick

Ranjit Mallick

Utpal Dutt

Anubha Gupta

Karuna Banerjee

S

Suchita Ray Chaudhury

Ajitesh Bandopadhyay

Politician

S

Subhash Dutta

Train Passanger

Satya Banerjee

Haradhan Bandyopadhyay

Judge

Rudraprasad Sengupta

Man at the Party

D

Devraj Roy

S

Suhashini Mulay

C

Cyrus Tata

Special Appearance

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