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The Director
Buddhadeb Dasgupta is arguably India’s most eminent film maker at present. What gives special interest to this spectacular film maker is not the extent to which he has carried on the tradition set by Ray, Ghatak and the like, but rather in the ways in which he has consciously avoided incurring any debt at all to the founding luminaries of the Indian art cinema or to any other film maker , for that matter.His works have won numerous awards in India and abroad. Once a teacher of economics, Buddhadeb Dasgupta is also a renowned Bengali poet whose work has been translated in different Indian and European languages. Some of his popular and notable films are “Duratwa” (Distance,1978), “Neem Annapurna” (Bitter Morse,1979),“Grihayuddha” (Crossroads,1982), “Lal Darja” (The Red Door,1996) .
SYNOPSIS
This somber drama follows the troubles of a rural family who moves to the big city to have a better life. Although the family is poor, they provide lodging for an old beggar while the unemployed husband searches for work. The youngest girl steals birdseed form a parrot, while the eldest girl is close to trading sex for food. The wife believes the beggar is hiding something and finds a bag of ice in his room. The beggar dies , and the wife cooks the rice for her family. Although she has provided for her family, her feelings of guilt about the old man prevent her form keeping her food down.