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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 others two being Interview, and Padatik. The film is a collection of stories depicting the 1970s.
Calcutta 71: Directed by Mrinal Sen. With Madhavi Mukherjee, Gita Sen, Binota Roy, Ranjit Mallick. An angry young man on trial in 1971,a rainstorm in a slum in 1933,a lower-middle-class family during the 1943 famine,teenage smugglers in 1953 and a middle-class group in a posh hotel in 1971.
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- Drama
- Mrinal Sen
- 1972-08
- Committed to His Times
- Put Down by The Calcutta Press
- Looking Reality in The Face
- New Indian Cinema
Mrinal Sen was once asked by Prabodh Maitra, a well-known film society organiser, why he kept repeating the theme of exploitation, poverty, famine, hunger and such other calamities in his films; was it because of his commitment? Mrinal Sen’s reply, clear and forthright, deserves to be recalled, even if it might seem banal or old-fashioned to presen...
Given the Indian context, when a film-maker talks and works the way Mrinal Sen did, it is inevitable that he should run into a wall of resentment, even open hostility, raised painstakingly by the middle classes and the media pundits, both used to feeling comfortable bathing in still, trouble-free waters. Calcutta ’71 , like other agit-prop films by...
What added to the significance of Bandopadhyay’s review was the telling manner in which he compared Calcutta ’71 with T. Pattabhirama Reddy’s trail-blazing Kannada film Samskara ( Funeral Rites ), with which the New Wave in Karnataka began in 1970, two years before Mrinal Sen’s film. “ Calcutta ’71 shares with Samskara the guts to look reality in t...
A few words on New Indian Cinema, which began with remarkable confidence in the late 1960s and continued with diminishing returns until about the mid-1990s, are perhaps necessary to contextualise a different kind of film like Calcutta ’71 ; to follow and appreciate its artistic, aesthetic and social aspirations. New Indian Cinema was an ideological...
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Calcutta 71, the second film in the trilogy, is also the one that marks a definitive shift in tone and treatment from Sen's earlier films.
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Calcutta 71. A young man, eternally 20, walks through history, through poverty, squalor and death. Eternally 20 and killed so many times -- killed because he has been protesting and has remained an agent-provocateur.
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 collection of four stories based on the seventies, Calcutta 71 by Mrinal Sen depicts the social, economic, and political scenario of that time in Bengal.
