In Search of Famine (1981)

Director: Mrinal Sen

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.

Cast

Dhritiman Chatterjee

Movie Director

Rajen Tarafdar

Dipankar Dey

Self

Radhamohan Bhattacharya

Teacher

Smita Patil

Self

Sreela Majumdar

Durga

Gita Sen

Devika Mukherjee

Jayanta Chowdhury

Jochan Dastidar