settima

famine

আকালের সন্ধানে [Akaler Sandhane / In Search of Famine] (Mrinal Sen, 1982)

Sep

7

আকালের সন্ধানে (1982)

A clapperboard in the jungle. DP: K.K. Mahajan.

“Past. Presence. And future.”

#FilmDuJour #September #MrinalSen #DhritimanChatterjee #SmitaPatil #SalilChoudhury #KKMahajan #famine #drama #docudrama #India #1980s ★★★★☆

আকালের সন্ধানে [Akaler Sandhane / In Search of Famine] (Mrinal Sen, 1982)

May

28

World Hunger Day

আকালের সন্ধানে (1982)

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.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #WorldHungerDay #MrinalSen #DhritimanChatterjee #SmitaPatil #SalilChoudhury #KKMahajan #drama #docudrama #India #1980s ★★★★☆