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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Interview<br />
| image = https://photos.app.goo.gl/5cnnBRMG17oV7CzE6<br />
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| director = [[Mrinal Sen]]<br />
| producer = Mrinal Sen Productions<br />
| writer = Ashis Barman<br />
| narrator = [[Ranjit Mallick]]<br />
| starring = [[Ranjit Mallick]], [[Karuna Banerjee]]<br />
| music = Vijay Raghav Rao<br />
| cinematography = [[K. K. Mahajan]]<br />
| editing = <br />
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| released = {{Film date|1971|11|13|West Bengal|df=y}}<br />
| runtime = 101 min.<br />
| country = [[India]]<br />
| language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]<br />
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'''''Interview''''' (1971)<ref name="Prakash2019">{{cite book|author=Gyan Prakash|title=Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cnx8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA91|date=26 March 2019|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-18672-6|pages=91–}}</ref> was a [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali]] film directed by noted Indian art film director [[Mrinal Sen]]. A path-breaking film in terms of the narrative innovation and cinematic technique, it was a commercial success and went to run for six weeks amidst gushing admiration and accolades, when it was screened first. It also happened to be the debut film of [[Ranjit Mallick]]. Though according to the director, it was a film on the colonial hangover, it touched upon the diverse issue of anti-establishment, middle class cowardice, unemployment.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
[[Ranjit Mallick]] is a smart personable young man. A friend of the family, who works in a foreign firm, has assured him of a lucrative job in his firm. All Ranjit has to do is to appear in an interview, dressed in a western style suit.<br />
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It seems a simple task, but fate wills otherwise. A strike by a labour Union means that he can't get his suit back from the laundry. His father's old suit won't fit him. He borrows a suit but loses it in a fracas. Ultimately he has to go to the interview dressed in the traditional Bengali Dhoti and Kurta (Dhuti-Panjabi).<br />
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This film is considered to be the first film of [[Mrinal Sen]]'s Calcutta trilogy, the others being ''[[Calcutta 71]]'', and ''[[Padatik (film)|Padatik]]''.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Ranjit Mallick]] as Ranjit<br />
* [[Karuna Banerjee]] as Ranjit’s Mother <br />
*Shekhar Chatterjee as Shekhar Uncle, a family friend <br />
*Bulbul Mukherjee as Ranjit’s elder sister <br />
*Mamata chatterjee as Ranjit’s girlfriend <br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb title|0067252|Interview}}<br />
*[http://mrinalsen.org/interview.htm On the Mrinal Sen website]<br />
*[http://www.upperstall.com/films/interview Review at Upperstall]<br />
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