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Seemabaddha (Company Limited), 1971 |
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| Midnight, still awake, the sales manager scheming
for a solution to an export crisis. |
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Production: Bharat Shamsher Jung Bahadur Rana for Chitranjali |
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Screenplay, Music, Direction: Satyajit Ray |
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Based on a novel by Shankar |
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Photography: Soumendu Roy |
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Art Direction: Ashoke Bose |
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Editing: Dulal Dutta |
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Sound: J.D. Irani, Durgadas Mitra |
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Duration: 112 mins |
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Date of release in India:24th September, 1971. B&W and Colour |
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Cast: Barun Chanda (Shyamal Chatterjee), Sharmila Tagore (Sudarsana, known as Tutul), Paromita Chaudhuri (Shyamal’s wife), Harindranath Chattopadhyay (Sir Baren Roy), Haradhan Banerjee (Talukdar), Indira Roy (Shyamal’s mother), Pramod Ganguli (Shyamal’s father). |
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| Awards |
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President’s Gold Medal, New Delhi, 1972 |
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FIPRESCI Award, Venice Film Festival , 1972 |
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As the sounds of bomb explosions fade away, Shyamal's wife shows Tutul from her 8th floor flat a bird’s eye view of the troubled Calcutta of 1971 |
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Tutul tries to grasp the nature of ambition of the sales manager. |
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| The Story |
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| Shyamal, sales manager of an English firm in Calcutta which manufactures ventilators, aspires to win the job of company director but must compete with a colleague who is manoeuvering to get the position for himself. |
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| His sister-in-law Sudarsana arrives to spend a few days with them. She remembers having been jealous of her sister's marriage, something Shyamal appears not to have forgotten. In order to cover up his company's problems meeting a production deadline, Syamal resorts to provoking a strike at the factory and, in the end, obtains the coveted directorship. His machinations are observed by Sudarsana who, unlike her sister, gains a clear insight into the personality of her brother-in-law. |
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| Tutul, visiting racecourse for the first time, starts feeling a subtle yet impulsive excitement. |
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| Contributed by DKB and AKD |
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