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| Directed by | Mrinal Sen |
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| Written by | Mrinal Sen Amalendu Chakraborty |
| Produced by | D. K. Films |
| Starring | Dhritiman Chatterjee Smita Patil Gita Sen Rajen Tarafdar Sreela Mazumder Radhamohan Bhattachariya Jayanta Chowdhury Dipankar De Jochhan Dastidar |
| Cinematography | K. K. Mahajan |
| Edited by | Gangadhar Naskar |
| Music by | Salil Chowdhury
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| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali
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Akaler Shandhaney (Template:Lang-bn; lit. "In Search of Famine") is a 1982 Indian Bengali film directed by Mrinal Sen.[1]
Plot
In September 1980, a film crew comes to a village to make a film about a famine, which killed five million Bangalis in 1943. It was a man made famine, a side-product of the war, and the film crew will create the tragedy of those millions who died of starvation. The film documents the convivial life among the film crew and the hazards, problems and tension of film making on location. The actors live a double life, and the villagers, both simple and not-so-simple, flock to watch their work with wonder and suspicion. But as the film progresses, the recreated past begins to confront the present. The uneasy coexistence of 1943 and 1980 reveals bizarre connection, involving a village woman whose visions add a further dimension of time—that of future. A disturbing situation, indeed, for the "famine-seekers"![1]
Awards
- 1981 - National Film Award for Best Feature Film[2]
- 1981 - National Film Award for Best Direction - Mrinal Sen
- 1981 - National Film Award for Best Screenplay - Mrinal Sen
- 1981 - National Film Award for Best Editing - Gangadhar Naskar
- 1981 - 31st Berlin International Film Festival - Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 National Film Awards Archives. Directorate of Film Festivals, Govt. of India.
- ↑ Akaler Shandhaney @ Mrinalsen.Org.
- ↑ Berlinale 1981: Prize Winners. Retrieved 2010-08-22.
External links
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