Kaleidoscope

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 7, 1981

Original language

Bangla

Spoken languages

Bengali

Countries

India

Cast

Kaushik Sen,Dilip Bose,Ahindra Choudhury,Gita Sen,Amal Sarkar,Radharani Devi,Rekha Chatterjee,Nimai Ghosh,Rupa Barman,Kakoli Boseand 22 more

Director

Mrinal Sen

Writer

Mrinal Sen

Producer

Dhiresh Kumar Chakraborty

Cinematography

K.K. Mahajan

Music

Aloknath Dey

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0082154