Dakhal

Dakhal
Directed by Gautam Ghose
Produced by Government of West Bengal
Written by Goutam Ghose
Partha Banerjee
Story by Sushil Jana
Starring Mamata Shankar
Robin Sen Gupta
Sunil Mukherjee
Sujal Roy Chowdhury
Music by Goutam Ghose
Cinematography Goutam Ghose
Release dates
  • 1981 (1981)
Country India
Language Bengali

Dakhal (The Occupation) is a 1981 Indian Bengali film directed by Gautam Ghose, with Mamata Shankar, Robin Sen Gupta, Sunil Mukherjee and Sujal Roy Chowdhury in lead roles. The film is about a woman belonging to nomadic tribe from Andhra Pradesh, known as crow hunters, who elopes and moves to south Bengal and makes a living by occult practices. It deals with the issue of exploitation of tribal people by the deceitful landlord.[1][2]

This the first Bengali language feature film by Ghosh, who had previously made documentaries and Maa Bhoomi in Telugu.[2] At the 29th National Film Awards it won the awards for Best Feature Film .[3][4] At the 11th International Human Rights Film Festival in Paris it won the Grand Jury Prize.[1]

Cast

References

  1. 1 2 Banerjee, Srivastava (2013). One Hundred Indian Feature Films: An Annotated Filmography. Routledge. p. 140. ISBN 978-1-135-84098-3.
  2. 1 2 Ray, Bibekananda; Joshi, Naveen; Division, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications (2005). Conscience of the race: India's offbeat cinema. Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. ISBN 978-81-230-1298-8.
  3. ↑ "29th National Film Awards". International Film Festival of India. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
  4. ↑ "29th National Film Awards (PDF)" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 4 October 2011.

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