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Shibnath is released from prison after serving eleven years for assaulting a British officer. His family has now become refugees, with his homeland, following Partition, belonging to a new nation. His wife urges him to make ally with his friend Bipin who is willing to capitalize on Shibnath's legendary reputation for patriotism, by asking to accompany him in electoral campaigns. In exchange, Bipin is ready to arrange Shibnath the job of a school master. However, Shibnath remains disillusioned and mystified by the life that now lies before him away from his beloved—and irretrievably lost—homeland.
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++TAHADER KATHA++
++ELEGIAC TRAIN JOURNEY IN TIME++
Director/Screenplay: Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Music: Biswadeb Dasgupta
Commercially Release: 1992
Language: Bengali
Cast: Mithun Chakraborty, Anusua Majumdar, Dipanker Dey,
Deborshi Bhattacharyya, Bidisha Chakraborty,
Subrata Nandy, Ashok Mukherjee
++Review By: Usman Latif Khawaja++
++Festival Participation/Awards:++
National Award for Best Bengali Film and Best Actor
Hong Kong Film Festival - 1991
Berlin Film Festival - 1991
London Film Festival - 1992
Indian Panorama - 1993
Tokyo Film Festival - 1993
Chicago Film Festival - 1993
Damascus Film Festival - 1993
Fribourg International Film Festival - 2000 Switzerland
The stunning reflections of a classical arched Victorian bridge in the still waters of a river in Bengal spellbind you while a man squatting on its banks talks to a young boy who is the son he has not seen since his birth, the anguish of a father who has lost the golden life in an Indian prison is palpable in this scene, the scene itself is a metaphor for the premises of the theme, the freedom struggle by the natives against colonisation, but the superlative is still to come as he narrates his experiences against the golden dusk setting over the river waters, a steam train whistles past over the bridge, thus completing the full circle of time itself.
The brilliance of this masterpiece perpetually follows this man from the perspective of others, as they view him as a lunatic, while he ponders on his youthful idealism and his disillusionment with the present-reflected in his poignant expressions, this is not an act but a true to life performance by Mithun Chakraborty.
The milieu of the movie is complex yet simple, the once prosperous Hindu family have been forced to immigrate to India after the partition in 1947, their financial ruin is complete as the father was imprison...