A young man, eternally 20, walks through history, through poverty, squalor and death. Eternally 20 and killed so many times -- killed because he has been protesting and has remained an agent-provocateur. He comes and goes, between stories, each story having an independent set-up and new characters, but all stories harping on the eternal reality: Poverty and Degradation. While t...
1980年，一个理想主义的中产阶级电影导演企图以他手中的传媒来再现1943年的孟加拉大饥荒，以此作为社会转变的武器。村民们纷纷伸出帮助之手，有人为剧组准备了酒菜，有人带他们参观一座古老的大楼。就在这座大楼的一间房里，有一个妇女守着她瘫痪的丈夫，他就是这幢房产17个房主之一。电影开拍了，片名叫做《寻找饥荒》，入夜，影片女主角来找老人的妻子，老人静静地听她们谈话，他理解了女主角内心寂寞的恐惧。摄影队看着室内排练饥民的照片，演员们异常真实地再现了1943、1959、1971年饥荒的情景。随着摄影的进展，摄影队已经在不同程度地影响着村民的生活，一个老农埋怨他们在找回旧饥荒同时还在制造新的饥荒。
This is a typical early Mrinal Sen film. Bold, brash and hammering home his political philosophy. The difference is in the treatment and the screenplay. This film uses the idiom of the absurd theatre to make its point - typical of Mohit Chattopadhyay's plays . Thus we have Robi Ghosh, in many a disguise, acting as the "Sutradhar" and delivering the political message. The film j...
