Release Date

07 Jan, 1981

Runtime

01:32: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Burning with a desire to be a journalist, a young man gets his chance when a publisher -- the father of a friend -- suggests that he write a story on the daily life of the people in his house (several families worth of people). The material turns out to be too incohesive and abundant to work into a pointed, thematic article, and just when he is about to give up, his younger brother asks him a simple question: "How many coal burners are there in Calcutta?" This triggers an idea for a story about Calcutta's pollution -- and the aspiring journalist dreams of myriads of burner-toting citizens invading the publisher's home demanding redress. Maybe he is finally on the way to a story that matters.

Original Title

Chaalchitra

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Actors

Anjan Dutt

Utpal Dutt

Gita Sen

Arun Mukherjee

Jyoti Chatterjee

Kaushik Sen

Paresh Ghosh

Purnima Debi

Kalpana Mukhopadhyay

Nemai Ghosh

Crew

Mrinal Sen

Mrinal Sen

Dhiresh Kumar Chakraborty

Aloknath Dey

K.K. Mahajan

Gangadhar Naskar