Quest for the Pitcher of Nectar

Overview

The film documents one of the largest Indian religious fairs, the Kumbh Mela, which is held at the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati. The action is seen through the eyes of Shubhendu Chatterjee who has come to the Mela not out of any religious sentiment but to see and understand people and seek the reason why “….multitudes upon multitudes of the old and weak and the young and frail enter without hesitation or complaint upon such incredible journeys and endure the resultant miseries without repining.” (Mark Twain after visiting the 1895 Mela)

Details

Status

Released

Release date

October 22, 1982

Original language

Bangla

Spoken languages

Bengali

Countries

India

Cast

Dipankar Dey,Santu Mukherjee,Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay,Shailen Mukherjee,Samit Bhanja,Anup Kumar,Lily Chakravarty,Aparna Sen,Biplab Chatterjee,Rabi Ghoshand 13 more

Director

Dilip Roy

Writer

Dilip Roy,Tulsidas,Samaresh Basu,Sudhin Dasgupta

Cinematography

Girish Padhiar

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt1587741