Padatik (film)

Padatik (The Guerrilla Fighter) is a 1973 Bengali film directed by noted Parallel Cinema director Mrinal Sen.

Padatik, The Guerrilla Fighter
Directed byMrinal Sen
Produced byMrinal Sen Productions
Written byAshish Barman
StarringDhritiman Chatterjee, Simi Garewal, Bijon Bhattacharya, Pravash Sarkar
Music byAnanda Shankar
CinematographyK. K. Mahajan
Release date
27/09/1973
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

This film is considered to be the third film of Mrinal Sen's Calcutta trilogy, the others being Interview, and Calcutta 71. A political activist escapes the prison van and is sheltered in a posh apartment owned by a sensitive young woman. Both are rebels: the activist against political treachery and the other on social level. Both are bitter about badly organized state of things. Being in solitary confinement, the fugitive engages himself in self-criticism and, in the process, questions the leadership. Questions are not allowed, obeying that is mandatory. Displeasure leads to bitterness, bitterness to total rift. The struggle has to continue, both for the political activist, now segregated, and the woman in exile.


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