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{{Infobox film<br />
|name = Calcutta 71<br />
|image = Calcutta 71 (1972).jpg<br />
|caption = <br />
|director = [[Mrinal Sen]]<br />
|producer = D. S. Pictures<br />
|writer = [[Manik Bandopadhyay]], Probodh Sanyal, [[Samaresh Basu]], [[Ajitesh Bandopadhyay|Ajitesh Bannerjee]]<br />
|narrator = A young man, eternally 20<br />
|starring = [[Utpal Dutt]], [[Debraj Roy]], [[Satya Bandyopadhyay|Satya Bannerjee]], [[Madhabi Mukherjee|Madhabi Chakraborty]], Gita Sen, Mithu Nandi<br />
|music = [[Ananda Shankar]]<br />
|cinematography = [[K. K. Mahajan]]<br />
|editing = <br />
|distributor = <br />
|released = {{Film date|df=yes/no|1972|10|12|Kolkata}}<br />
|runtime = 101 minutes<br />
|country = India<br />
|language = Bengali<br />
|budget = <br />
}}<br />
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'''Calcutta 71''' is a 1972 [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali]] film directed by noted Indian art film director [[Mrinal Sen]].<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> This film is considered to be the second film of Mrinal Sen's Calcutta trilogy, the others being ''[[Interview (1971 film)|Interview]]'', and ''[[Padatik (film)|Padatik]]''.<br />
The movie Calcutta 71 is a collection of stories depicting the Seventies. The [[Naxalite movement|Naxalite activity]], starvation of common people, social and political corruption are shown. There are four stories shown in the film.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
The ''first story'' is about a lower-middle-class family staying in a cottage in a slum area. On a rainy night they are forced to leave the cottage & move to another safe shelter. They find many others had already taken shelter before them.<br />
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The ''second story'' is about another middle-class family of mother & two mature daughters who were unable to cope with the starvation & poverty and succumbed to prostitution. It was based on the timeline of the Famine that engulfed Bengal in 1942 due to the World War II. Their cousin brother Nalinakhya, who lives in Delhi, comes to visit them & meets the hard reality. After seeing all these he leaves to Delhi. This story is an actual short-story by Probodh Kumar Sanyal which is named 'Angar'.<br />
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The ''third story'' is of a rural middle-class family where the elder son of a family is involved in smuggling rice to the city forsaking his school and education. The boys including him in the train insults rich people's way of life and attitude. One man beats one of the boys severely but as a revenge, the boy pushes that man off from the train to the station. <br />
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The ''fourth story'' is about the Kolkata's upper class society gossiping and listening to a music concert over drinking cocktails without any exposure to the common people. An upper-class man talks philosophies and says he is very disappointed about the condition of the poor in India. But actually he is a hypocrite, who exploits the poor employees of his factory and makes money by torturing them. This story portrays the elite of the society in a grey manner where they are aware of the misdoing in society while not reacting to rectify the same. <br />
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In the final scene, the death of truth is represented in the death of a youth chased and killed by the police.<br />
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There is also an optional story in the prologue which portrays a satirical courtroom drama of a young man vandalizing a statue out of un-employment induced frustration. The court decides the fault to lie within the society itself, however it punishes the man to death. <br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb title|0066880}}<br />
*[http://mrinalsen.org/calcutta_71.htm On the Mrinal Sen website]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090123101212/http://boloji.com/cinema/calcutta71.htm A review]<br />
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{{National Film Award Second Best Feature Film}}<br />
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