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Kaleidoscope (1981)

Kaleidoscope (1981)

Drama
Release Date: 1981, January 7
Directors: Mrinal Sen
Countries: India
Cast: Utpal Dutt, Anjan Dutt, Arun Mukherjee, Jyoti Chatterjee

Overview:

Burning with a desire to be a journalist, a young man gets his chance when a publisher -- the father of a friend -- suggests that he write a story on the daily life of the people in his house (several families worth of people). The material turns out to be too incohesive and abundant to work into a pointed, thematic article, and just when he is about to give up, his younger brother asks him a simple question: "How many coal burners are there in Calcutta?" This triggers an idea for a story about Calcutta's pollution -- and the aspiring journalist dreams of myriads of burner-toting citizens invading the publisher's home demanding redress. Maybe he is finally on the way to a story that matters.