“Past. Presence. And future.”
আকালের সন্ধানে [Akaler Sandhane / In Search of Famine] (Mrinal Sen, 1982)
Sep
7
A clapperboard in the jungle. DP: K.K. Mahajan.
আকালের সন্ধানে [Akaler Sandhane / In Search of Famine] (Mrinal Sen, 1981)
May
29
चाय
The Bollywood stars arrive at the temple. In the foreground one of the actresses, cupping a beaker with her hands. DP: K.K. Mahajan.
আকালের সন্ধানে [Akaler Sandhane / In Search of Famine] (Mrinal Sen, 1982)
May
28
World Hunger Day
A woman in sari looks up to the sky, her left hand shielding her eyes. DP: K.K. Mahajan.
A film crew from Calcutta arrives in a small Bengal town to make a film about the 1943 Bengal Famine. Initially, their arrival sparks joy and wonder but while filming, the participants – travelling back and forth between 1943 and 1980, Calcutta and rural Bengal, and reality and re-enactment – come to realise that #famine has many faces.