Under the Blue Sky

Overview

Set in the turbulent 1930s, this is the story of a poor Chinese hawker selling his merchandise, Chinese silk, in the streets of Calcutta. This was the time when China was repulsing a brutal attack of militarist Japan and when an outraged Rabindranath Tagore wrote to his friend in Japan, the great poet Noguchi: “I wish your countrymen, whom I love so much, not success but remorse”. This film holds the dubious distinction of being the first to be banned (though temporarily) in independent India.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 20, 1959

Original language

Bangla

Spoken languages

Bengali, Hindi

Countries

India

Production

Hemanta Bela Productions

Cast

Bablu,Kali Bannerjee,Manju Dey,Shailen Mukherjee,Chandi Chatterjee,Smriti Biswas,Ranu,Suruchi Sengupta,Yi Show Wen,Liu Chang Chingand 19 more

Director

Mrinal Sen

Writer

Mrinal Sen,Mahadevi Varma

Producer

Bela Mukherjee,Hemanta Mukherjee

Cinematography

Sailaja Chatterjee

Music

Hemanta Mukherjee

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0053104