Movielogr
Kaleidoscope (1981)
Directed by Mrinal Sen
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.
Length 92 minutes
Actors
Anjan Dutt | Gita Sen | Utpal Dutt | Paresh Ghosh | Purnima Debi | Kalpana Mukhopadhyay | Arun Mukherjee | Jyoti Chatterjee | Rekha Chatterjee | Radharani Devi | Kakoli Bose | Arati Chakraborty | Nilotpal Dey | Nemai Ghosh | Ramen Roy Chowdhuri | Koushik Sen | Debapratim Dasgupta | Wriddhipratimm Dasgupta | Rathin Lahiri | Dilip Bose | Kiran Maitra | Sekhar Das | Hans Bugger | Anne Kilgore | Jagriti Ruparel | Rupa Barman | Mithu Majumder | Rama Manna | Ahindra Choudhury | Swapan Chatterjee | Swapan Kar | Amal Sarkar