Calcutta

00:00:02 Directed by

00:15:47 Because life is an illusion.

00:16:32 This music comes from outside - hit songs from films.

00:20:54 "Bengal, another Vietnaml"

00:22:08 Thousands of statues are produced and sold

00:29:58 Calcutta didn't exist before the English.

00:30:58 form an all-powerful economic class

00:33:29 Labor unions struggle here due to hostility from management

00:36:24 Nutrition poses difficult challenges.

00:40:05 Every morning at the temple of Kali in the center of town

00:41:34 The body must be completely consumed and the ashes thrown into the river.

00:45:06 Calcutta will reach 20 million inhabitants.

00:48:55 There are two million Bihari here - one quarter of the population.

00:53:46 is controlled by the Marwari

00:57:10 She'll keep it until she dies or is widowed.

01:00:13 following the example of the Chinese revolution and the Vietnamese people.

01:06:00 This leper, reciting a poem in Urdu, the language of India's Muslims

01:09:32 Every evening in Dapa, after reciting an Our Father

01:16:56 the great epics of Hinduism.

01:23:46 Muslims and Hindus share the same houses and wells

01:25:51 around an enclosed courtyard and well.

01:29:11 In the heart of the slum, potters make clay cups

01:32:21 Lepers form a separate caste

01:34:19 They are astonished to be filmed, to be pitied