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{{Infobox film<br />
| location = India<br />
| name = Chokh<br />
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| director = [[Utpalendu Chakrabarty]]<br />
| producer = Department of Information & Cultural Affairs, [[Government of West Bengal]]<br />
| writer = Utpalendu Chakrabarty<br>Akshay Upadhyay <small>(Hindi dialogue)</small><br />
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| screenplay = <br />
| story = Utpalendu Chakrabarty<br />
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| starring = [[Om Puri]]<br>[[Anil Chatterjee]]<br />[[Shyamanand Jalan]] <br>[[Sreela Majumdar]] <br />
| music = Utpalendu Chakrabarty<br />
| cinematography = Shakti Banerjee<br />
| editing = Bulu Ghosh<br />
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| released =1982 (India)<!-- {{Film date|df=yes|Year|Month|Day|Location}} --><br>23 February 1983 <small>(Berlin International Film Festival)</small><br />
| runtime = 98 min<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Bengali<br />
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'''''Chokh''''' (English: The Eyes) is a [[List of Bengali films of 1982|1982]] Indian [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali film]] directed by [[Utpalendu Chakrabarty]], with [[Om Puri]], [[Anil Chatterjee]], [[Shyamanand Jalan]] and [[Sreela Majumdar]] in lead roles. The film is set in 1975 and the oppression and exploitation of [[Jute]] mill workers in [[Kolkata]].<ref>{{cite web| title = Chokh |publisher=Upperstall.com| url = http://www.upperstall.com/films/1983/chokh| access-date = 17 April 2014}}</ref><ref name="Chaudhuri1990">{{cite book|last=Chaudhuri|first=Sukanta|title=Calcutta, the Living City: The present and future|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cGduAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|page=313|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195625868}}</ref><br />
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At the [[30th National Film Awards]] he won the awards for [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|Best Feature Film]] as well as [[National Film Award for Best Direction|Best Direction]] award for the director.<ref name="30thaward">{{cite web|url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm30thNFAAward.aspx|title=30th National Film Awards|publisher=[[International Film Festival of India]]|access-date=8 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003130200/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm30thNFAAward.aspx|archive-date=3 October 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="30thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/30th_nff_1983.pdf|title=30th National Film Awards (PDF)|publisher=[[Directorate of Film Festivals]]|access-date=4 October 2011}}</ref><br />
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==Plot==<br />
The film is set during the [[Emergency (India)|Emergency]] period in December 1975. Jadunath a labour union leader, of Jethia Jute Mill in Kolkata has been given death sentence, for the murders of owner Jethia's brother, and another worker, even though he never committed them. Before dying, he pledges his eyes for donation. However, when the mill owner finds about this, he tries to manoeuvre the medical system to get both the eyes for his blind son. Meanwhile, the doctor discovers that the donation papers provided by the Jethia to be fake. Soon the mill workers get united behind the widow of Jadunath and hold protest rally against the injustice. The film is a document of the time.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Om Puri]] as Jadunath<br />
* [[Anil Chatterjee]] as Dr. Mukherjee (as Anil Chattopadhyay)<br />
* [[Shyamanand Jalan]] as Factory Owner<br />
* [[Sreela Majumdar]] as Jadunath's Widow<br />
* [[Madhabi Mukherjee]] (guest appearance)<br />
* Ashok Banerjee<br />
* Baidyanath Banerjee<br />
* Gautam Banerjee<br />
* Manju Banerjee<br />
* Nepal Banik<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{Reflist|2}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0134580}}<br />
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{{NationalFilmAwardBestFeatureFilm}}<br />
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[[Category:1982 films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:Films whose director won the Best Director National Film Award]]<br />
[[Category:Best Feature Film National Film Award winners]]<br />
[[Category:Films set in 1975]]<br />
[[Category:Films set in Kolkata]]<br />
[[Category:Jute industry of India]]<br />
[[Category:Social realism in film]]<br />
[[Category:Films about the labor movement]]<br />
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