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When a Dalit wins the elections for mayor in his small village in northeastern India, deadly rioting forces an impoverished couple to escape to Calcutta where they can hopefully find work. Instead, they end up sleeping on the streets until they have a chance at earning a little income -- a man has asked them to take his herd of pigs across a fast-moving river. The current is dangerous, and worse, the wife is pregnant and this would not be an easy task even if she were not. Undaunted and desperate, the couple accept the job and enter the river to face their destiny.Read moreLess
When a Dalit wins the elections for mayor in his small village in northeastern India, deadly rioting forces an impoverished couple to escape to Calcutta where they can hopefully find work. Instead, they end up sleeping on the streets until they have a chance at earning a little income -- a man has asked them to take his herd of pigs across a fast-moving river. The current is dangerous, and worse, the wife is pregnant and this would not be an easy task even if she were not. Undaunted and desperate, the couple accept the job and enter the river to face their destiny.
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When a Dalit wins the elections for mayor in his small village in northeastern India, deadly rioting forces an impoverished couple to escape to Calcutta where they can hopefully find work. Instead, they end up sleeping on the streets until they have a chance at earning a little income -- a man has asked them to take his herd of pigs across a fast-moving river. The current is dangerous, and worse, the wife is pregnant and this would not be an easy task even if she were not. Undaunted and desperate, the couple accept the job and enter the river to face their destiny.
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Naseeruddin ShahNaurangia
Shabana AzmiRama
Utpal DuttBhola Singh
Om PuriRamnaresh
Mohan AgasheHari Singh
Anil ChatterjeeSchoolmaster
Ruma Guha Thakurta
Sunil MukherjeeChamku
Kamu MukherjeeHeadman
Masood AkhtarCast
Kalyan ChatterjeeExplore the crew
- Director
- Goutam Ghose
- Screenplay
- Goutam Ghose
- Screenplay
- Partha Banerjee
- Editor
- Prasanta Dey
- Producer
- Swapan Sarkar
- Director of Photography
- Goutam Ghose
- Original Music Composer
- Goutam Ghose