A dawn to dusk account of a young man in search of a job. Read More »
Tag Archives: India
Calcutta 71 (1971) Mrinal Sen, Madhabi Mukherjee, Gita Sen, Binota Roy
A young man, eternally 20, walks through history, through poverty, squalor and death. Read More »
Outrages of the Orient (1948) Carlos Vander Tolosa, William H. Jansen, Linda Estrella, Fernando Royo, Mona Lisa
A docu-drama recreating the rape and plundering conducted by WWII Japanese troops against the Filipino people. Read More »
Rat-Trap (1982) Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Jalaja, Karamana Janardanan Nair, Rajam K. Nair
The protagonist is trapped within himself and is unable to comprehend the changes taking place around him. Read More »
The Citizen (1952) Ritwik Ghatak, Ajit Banerjee, Kali Bannerjee, Gangapada Basu
Ramu,a fresh graduate is searching for a job like many others in post-Partition Kolkata. Read More »
The Descent/Ascent (1963) Agradoot, Sabitri Chatterjee, Supriya Choudhury, Asha Devi
Uttarayan is a film depicting the effects of the second world war on a man’s life and in family. Read More »
The Big City (1963) Satyajit Ray, Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Jaya Bhaduri
Calcutta in the early 1960’s. Bhambal supports his wife Arati, his parents, and two children. Read More »
Soni (2018) Ivan Ayr, Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, Saloni Batra, Vikas Shukla
Soni, a young policewoman in Delhi, and her superintendent, Kalpana Read More »
Shelter of the Wings (1994) Buddhadev Dasgupta, Shankar Chakraborty, Indrani Haldar, Rajit Kapoor
Lakha comes from a family of bird catchers, but questions the value of catching birds. Read More »
Mahal (1949) Kamal Amrohi, Ashok Kumar, Madhubala, M. Kumar
Hari Shankar (Ashok Kumar) comes to claim his inheritance – a palatial building known as Shabnam Mahal. Read More »
Khubsoorat (1980) Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Ashok Kumar, Rekha, Rakesh Roshan
Nirmala Gupta runs her household and family in a very strict and authoritarian manner. Read More »
My Name Is Joker (1970) Raj Kapoor, Manoj Kumar, Simi Garewal, Achala Sachdev
Raju is a joker, a clown. It is what he is and what he always shall be. Read More »
A Game of Chance (1951) Guru Dutt, Dev Anand, Geeta Bali, Kalpana Kartik
Madan comes from a poor family background. Unable to find employment, he takes to gambling in a big way. Read More »
A Flight of Pigeons (1979) Shyam Benegal, Jalal Agha, Nafisa Ali, Tom Alter
The movie chronicles the period of 1857 to 1858 when the soldiers of the East India Company mutinied Read More »
Ankur (1974) Shyam Benegal, Shabana Azmi, Sadhu Meher, Anant Nag
Laxmi lives a poor lifestyle in a small village in India along with her husband, Kishtaya, who is a deaf-mute. Read More »