Set in the turbulent 1930s, this is the story of a poor Chinese hawker selling his merchandise, Chinese silk, in the streets of Calcutta. This was the time when China was repulsing a brutal attack of militarist Japan and when an outraged Rabindranath Tagore wrote to his friend in Japan, the great poet Noguchi: “I wish your countrymen, whom I love so much, not success but remorse”. This film holds the dubious distinction of being the first to be banned (though temporarily) in independent India.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Kali Bannerjee, Monu Mukherjee, Smriti Biswas, Manju Dey, Bikash Roy
Crew: Hemanta Mukherjee (Producer), Shakti Sen (Makeup Artist), Mahadevi Varma (Short Story), Ananta Das (Makeup Artist), Bela Mukherjee (Producer), Mrinal Sen (Director)
Country: India
Language: বাংলা, हिन्दी
Studio: Hemanta Bela Productions
Runtime: 133 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Feb 20, 1959
IMDb: 10
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