Calcutta 71

1972 · 116 MIN · IMDB 8.1 · 335 VOTES · DIR. Mrinal Sen

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Overview

The spirit of a condemned 20-year-old student wanders through time, linking together four stories of people struggling for survival in this gritty meditation on poverty, natural disaster and political strife in India. A middle-class family's home is no match for the monsoons, while another clan's morality is compromised when famine strikes. Young boys smuggle rice, and politicians pity the poor while living in the lap of luxury.

Dialogue Timeline — 944 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:11 'My age is twenty.'
00:08:03 Get the umbrella.
00:12:15 Let them be. Can't stay here like this anymore!
00:15:04 Mother! - Hey, Shyama give the umbrella!
00:19:51 What happened; why stopped here!? - Don't you see?
00:23:44 'We've such fate, mister; the whole life got spent like this.'
00:26:12 We didn't give the address to anyone.
00:28:29 Roaming all through the day! - Oh wow; when did you see?
00:31:17 ...How am I doing; came to talk about all this.
00:34:35 Why? - No, it seems see she's very intimate with you all.
00:36:51 The gentleman is alone here. He often fasts.
00:39:58 Now this is intolerable.
00:43:17 As the times are; it's better to reach station before blackout.
00:47:30 "We don't have food and home!"
00:50:53 Beware? - Yes.
00:53:22 You buy tea everyday!?
00:57:05 Nice curved ones, nice to eat! Very nice.
01:00:29 May I have the light, sir? - What?
01:03:53 I did this for your convenience, and you people are...
01:07:57 So he chewed the chicken leg, suddenly...
01:10:47 Why the home minister?
01:13:29 This is not the face of confusion.
01:16:59 There's lock out in both the factories.
01:21:11 I felt, someone released a breath in anger and saying...

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed944
Dialogue density8.1 lines / min
First line00:00:11
Final line01:21:11

Production Record

DirectorMrinal Sen
LanguageBN
IMDb votes335