Alarm has been sounded that the hydrogen bomb is about to be dropped. In this atmosphere of panic and fear a cross-section of humanity has been huddled together for safety in an experimental shelter. But even in this crisis the old attitudes and behaviour patterns do not change. FTII Diploma film for acting students of 1964-65 by Ritwik Ghatak.
Direction
Ghatak's camera claws at the walls with you.
Acting
Student actors raw enough to feel like found footage.
Director
Ritwik Ghatak
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Subhash Ghai, the science student, later became one of Bollywood's biggest commercial directors—imagine the head trip of his origin story.
Made during India's post-war non-alignment era, the film channels global Cold War anxiety through distinctly Bengali class consciousness.
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