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Under the Blue Sky (1959)
Directed by Mrinal Sen
Overview
Set in the turbulent 1930s, this is the story of a poor Chinese hawker selling his merchandise, Chinese silk, in the streets of Calcutta. This was the time when China was repulsing a brutal attack of militarist Japan and when an outraged Rabindranath Tagore wrote to his friend in Japan, the great poet Noguchi: “I wish your countrymen, whom I love so much, not success but remorse”. This film holds the dubious distinction of being the first to be banned (though temporarily) in independent India.
Length 133 minutes
Actors
Kali Bannerjee | Manju Dey | Smriti Biswas | Bikash Roy | Suruchi Sengupta | Ajit Chatterjee | Priya Chatterjee | Rasaraj Chakraborty | Lee Chiu Fong | Yi Show Wen | Bhaskar Deb | Ajit Bandyopadhyay | Shailen Mukherjee | Chandi Chatterjee | Monu Mukherjee | Sudhir Basu | Robin Banerjee | Liu Chang Ching | Yong Chin Tien | Liao Tai Sheng | Quo Lin An | Chen Chuan Long | Chin Siu Ho | Liu Wang Wan | Ranu | Bablu | Subit | Barun | Gora | Prabir