Burning with a desire to be a journalist, a young man gets his chance when a publisher -- the father of a friend -- suggests that he write a story on the daily life of the people in his house (several families worth of people). The material turns out to be too incohesive and abundant to work into a pointed, thematic article, and just when he is about to give up, his younger brother asks him a simple question: "How many coal burners are there in Calcutta?" This triggers an idea for a story about Calcutta's pollution -- and the aspiring journalist dreams of myriads of burner-toting citizens invading the publisher's home demanding redress. Maybe he is finally on the way to a story that matters.
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Cast
32 people
Anjan Dutt
Dipu
Known for
City of Joy
Gita Sen
Also in
Calcutta 71
Ek Din Pratidin
Utpal Dutt
Newspaper Editor
Known for
The Stranger
Gol Maal
Paresh Ghosh
Also in
In Search of Famine
Purnima Debi
Kalpana Mukhopadhyay
Arun Mukherjee
Kolpona
Also in
The Man with the Axe
Kanchenjungha
Jyoti Chatterjee
Rekha
Rekha Chatterjee
Also in
The Golden Fortress
The Boy in the Middle
Radharani Devi
Also in
The Man with the Axe
In Search of Famine
Kakoli Bose
Arati Chakraborty
Mrinal Sen Director · Aloknath Dey Composer K.K. Mahajan Cinematographer
First release January 7, 1981 · Produced in India · Original title চালচিত্র
Production
India
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Original title
চালচিত্র
Original language
Bangla
Spoken on screen
Bangla
Release dates
India · January 7, 1981
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No release date listed for United States.
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