Dooratwa

Dooratwa (English: Distance) is a 1981 Bengali film directed and written by Buddhadev Dasgupta.

Dooratwa
Directed byBuddhadev Dasgupta
Produced byBuddhadev Dasgupta
Written byBuddhadev Dasgupta
Music byAin Rasheed Khan, Mahmud Mirza
CinematographyRanjit Roy
Release date
21/03/1981
Running time
96 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Plot

(P. Mukherjee), marries a young woman, Anjali (Shankar). When the former rebel learns that Anjali is a single mother, he leaves her. He also refuses shelter to a Naxalite on the run. The lonely teacher forms a relationship with a working-class woman and her insane mother, but class differences prevent this from going any further. In the end, he finds that the woman he rejected is mature enough to accept him as a friend and their relationship shows renewed promise as he tries to shed his prejudices. The film continued the Bengali cinema's fascination with the Naxalite uprising of the late 60s and 70s, often using symbolic imagery as in the opening shot of a newly paved VIP road and the commentary linking the annihilation of ‘troublemakers’ with the ‘beautification’ of the city. The film recalled aspects of Ray's 70s Calcutta films in its extensive use of silence and its consistently lyrical emphasis on the protagonist's subjectivity.

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