In Search of Famine

In Search of Famine

1981•2h 8m•6.9/10

Drama

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6.9/10(10)

A young, idealistic director arrives in a village to make a picture set during the Great Bengal Famine. It’s a film that he hopes will reveal the problems and privations still current in rural India.

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Cast

Dhritiman Chatterjee

Dhritiman Chatterjee

Movie Director

Rajen Tarafdar

Dipankar Dey

Dipankar Dey

Self

Radhamohan Bhattacharya

Radhamohan Bhattacharya

Teacher

Smita Patil

Smita Patil

Self

Sreela Majumdar

Sreela Majumdar

Durga

Gita Sen

Devika Mukherjee

Jayanta Chowdhury

Jochan Dastidar

Nilkantha Sengupta

Biplab Chatterjee

Biplab Chatterjee

Self

Umanath Bhattacharya

Rathin Lahiri

Monu Mukherjee

Monu Mukherjee

Father of nurse

Satya Banerjee

Satya Banerjee

Jayanta Bhattacharya

Mantu Ghosh

Siddhartha Dutta

Manojit Lahiri

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