| | 4 | aka The People 1978 172’ col Bengali d/co-sc/co-lyr Tarun Majumdar pc West Bengal Govt st/co-lyr Tarashankar Bannerjee from his novel (1942) co-sc Rajen Tarafdar co-lyr Pulak Bandyopadhyay, Mukul Dutta, Gangacharan Sarkar c Shakti Bannerjee m Hemanta Mukherjee lp Soumitra Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy, Madhabi Mukherjee, Samit Bhanja, Ajitesh Bannerjee, Anup Kumar Das, Debraj Roy, Robi Ghosh, Purnima Devi, Sumitra Mukherjee |
| | 7 | This adaptation of Bannerjee’s main novel is Majumdar’s most ambitious film. Set in pre- WW2 rural Bengal, it chronicles the revolution incited by two villagers, a blacksmith and a tanner, who refuse to work on the traditionally established rates of barter. A rapacious village landlord, a radicalised schoolteacher (Chatterjee), a revolutionary sought by the British and a group of corrupt policemen lead a large ensemble of characters in a film whose political message is made to order for its sponsors. |