1957
year
116
Minutes
Synopsis
Rahmat, a middle-aged fruit seller from Afghanistan, comes to Calcutta to hawk his merchandise and befriends a small Bengali girl called Mini who reminds him of his own daughter back in Afghanistan. One day Rehmat receives news of his daughter’s illness and decides to return to Afghanistan. But before he goes a violent fight with a customer leads to Rehmat killing him. He gets out of prison ten years later. Based on a Rabindranath Tagore story.
Producer(s) or Production Company: Charuchitra
Screenplay: Tapan Sinha
Director of Photography: Anil Banerjee
Editor: Subodh Ray
Music: Pandit Ravi Shankar
Sound: Mani Basu
Cast: Chhabi Biswas, Oindrila Tagore (Tinku), Asha Devi, Radhamohan Bhattacharya, Manju Dey, Jahar Roy, Kali Banerjee, Jiben Bose
Awards - Winner: Berlin IFF (Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the Jury) National FA (Best Feature)
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: NA
Director's Biography
TAPAN SINHA
NA- Asian Cinema Competition
- Chitrabharati (Indian Cinema) Competition
- Kannada Cinema Competition
- Contemporary World Cinema
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- Critics Week
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- Kannada Cinema of Popular Entertainment
- Women Power in Filmmaking
- Unsung Incredible India - Films from little known languages
- Retrospective
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- Homages & Remembrances
- 90 Years of Kannada Cinema and Suvarna Karnataka Sambhrama
- Curated Thematic Films on Human Rights and Values
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