A small company advertises for 100 vacancies and 30,000 apply. The applicants are all from the ranks of the poor and there is a virtual riot. Everyone around is seeking for opportunities. Among them are the applicants who desperately need the job, the photographer who is busy seeking a scoop, the village moneylender who is busy exploiting the poor, the ineffective police, the employers who are advertising posts even while a six month old strike has nearly caused the workmen to become destitute. It is a story of society captured in a tiny framework of a small business. Ultimately, the workmen, the unemployed and the farmers all get to gether to protest against this exploitation.
- 6.5
- 1974
- Released
- 1h 52m
Utpal Dutt
Manager
Rabi Ghosh
Shekhar Chattopadhyay
Subhendu Chatterjee
Dilip Roy
Moon Moon Sen
Satya Bandopadhyay
Haradhan Bandyopadhyay
Gita Sen
Snigdha Majumdar
Rasaraj Chakraborty
Nirmal Ghosh
Radhamohan Bhattacharya
Supantha Bhattarcharya
Tarun Roy
Noni Ganguly
Ashok Mitra
Subrata Sensharma
Ajoy Bandyopadhyay
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This is a typical early Mrinal Sen film. Bold, brash and hammering home his political philosophy. The difference is in the treatment and the screenplay. This film uses the idiom of the absurd theatre to make its point - typical of Mohit Chattopadhyay's plays . Thus we have Robi Ghosh, in many a disguise, acting as the "Sutradhar" and delivering the political message. The film juxtaposes this styli