Movie: In Search of Famine

Top 10 Billed Cast

Dhritiman Chatterjee
Dhritiman Chatterjee

Movie Director

Rajen Tarafdar
Rajen Tarafdar

Dipankar Dey
Dipankar Dey

Self

Radhamohan Bhattacharya
Radhamohan Bhattacharya

Teacher

Smita Patil
स्मिता पाटिल

Self

Sreela Majumdar
Sreela Majumdar

Durga

Gita Sen
Gita Sen

Devika Mukherjee
Devika Mukherjee

Jayanta Chowdhury
Jayanta Chowdhury

Jochan Dastidar
Jochan Dastidar

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    A young, idealistic director arrives in a village to make a picture set during the Great Bengal Famine. It’s a film that he hopes will reveal the problems and privations still current in rural India.

  • Release Date

    1981-01-04

  • Average

    6.9

  • Rating:

    3.5 starts
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  • Languages:

    বাংলা
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