Title of film : The Wrestlers
Director Name : Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Cast & crew :
Producer : Dulal Roy
Editor : Rabiranjan Maitra
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Synopsis : Cracks appear in the serene world of the village when Balaram (Shankar Chakraborty) brings home the beautiful bride Uttara (Jaya Sil). Balaram's easy relationship with Nemai (Tapas Paul) evaporates, and soon the two friends' healthy passion for wrestling is transformed into a real fight over a woman. Elsewhere in the village, a group of Hindu extremists are setting out to exterminate the pastor (played by Asad from Bangladesh). He is burnt alive in the church, a dwarf train guard is killed, while Uttara is raped and murdered by the zealots.
Director Bio : Buddhadeb started his career as a lecturer of Economics, at the Shyamsundar College of the University of Burdwan followed by City College, Calcutta. In 1976, when disenchanted by the gap he perceived between the economic theory he taught and the socio-political reality, he took to film making. Meanwhile, his membership with the Calcutta Film Society, where he started going in his senior high school along with his uncle, exposed him to the works of directors like Charlie Chaplin, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, and Michelangelo Antonioni. He made his first full-length feature film, Duratwa (Distance) in 1978.
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