Cast: Dhritiman Chatterjee, Smita Patil, Sreela Majumdar, Dipankar Dey, Devika Mukherjee, Gita Sen, Rajen Tarafder Awards: National Award Swarnakamal 1980 for best Direction, Screenplay, Editing; Berlin Film Festival 1981 Silver Bear.

Movie with English Subtitles

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A film crew comes to a village to make a film about the man made famine of 1943, a side-product of the war, which killed five million Bengalis. The film documents the 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 folk, watch their work with wonder and suspicion. But as the film progresses, the uneasy coexistence of 1943 and 1980 reveals bizarre connections, and the recreated past begins to confront the present.