Calcutta 71

Calcutta 71
Directed byMrinal Sen
Written byManik Bandopadhyay
Probodh Sanyal
Samaresh Basu
Ajitesh Bandopadhyay
Produced byD. S. Pictures
StarringUtpal Dutt
Ranjit Mallick
Debraj Roy
Asit Bandopadhyay
Ajitesh Bandopadhyay
Satya Bandyopadhyay
Madhabi Mukherjee
Gita Sen
Mithu Nandi
Narrated byA young man, eternally 20
CinematographyK. K. Mahajan
Music byAnanda Shankar
Release date
  • 12 October 1972 (1972-10-12) (Kolkata)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Calcutta 71 is a 1972 Bengali-language political action drama film directed by Mrinal Sen.[1] This film is considered to be the second film of Mrinal Sen's Calcutta trilogy, the others two being Interview, and Padatik. The film is a collection of stories depicting the 1970s. The Naxalite movement, starvation of common people, and social and political corruption are shown. There are four stories shown in the film.

  1. ^ Gyan Prakash (26 March 2019). Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point. Princeton University Press. pp. 91–. ISBN 978-0-691-18672-6.