A young Indian man has been assured by an uncle that all he needs to land a lucrative job is to show up to the interview in a Western style suit, but the morning of the interview is fraught with unexpected difficulties.
Direction
Sen's real-time pressure cooker—every second counts.
Acting
Mallick's sweating desperation is almost unbearable to watch.
Cinematography
Chaotic Kolkata streets as character, not backdrop.
Director
Mrinal Sen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Naxalite movement, this captures middle-class Bengali anxiety about revolutionary violence vs. bureaucratic survival.
Sen shot this in actual locations with hidden cameras; some 'extras' didn't know they were in a film.
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