Title of film : Sagina Mahato
Director Name : Tapan Sinha
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Producer : J.K. Kapoor,Heman Ganguly
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Synopsis : This is a story of a tea estate labour leader in the North Eastern region of India during the British Raj. Sagina Mahato fights for the rights of the labourers and has the courage to put up a resistance against the tyranny of the British bosses. He is helped by a young communist Amal who comes to the place to uplift the poor and downtrodden masses. Amal, an outsider, turned Sagina as a leader and thus alienated him from the masses by elaborating, appropriating, codifying and approximating his social hierarchy.
Director Bio : Tapan Sinha was one of the most prominent Indian film directors of his time forming a legendary quartet with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen. He was primarily a Bengali filmmaker who worked both in Hindi and Bengali cinema, directing films like “Kabuliwala” (1957), “Louha-Kapat” (1958), “Sagina Mahato” (1970), “Apanjan” (1968), “Kshudhita Pashan” (1960) and children's film “Safed Haathi” (1978) and “Aaj Ka Robinhood” (1987). Sinha started his career in 1946, as a sound engineer with New Theatres film production house in Kolkata, then in 1950 left for England where he worked at Pinewood Studios for next two years, before returning home to start his six decade long career in Indian cinema, making films in Bengali, Hindi and Oriya languages. Kabuliwala (1957) Apanjan (1968)
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