Chokh

Chokh
Directed byUtpalendu Chakrabarty
Written byUtpalendu Chakrabarty
Akshay Upadhyay (Hindi dialogue)
Story byUtpalendu Chakrabarty
Produced byDepartment of Information & Cultural Affairs, Government of West Bengal
StarringOm Puri
Anil Chatterjee
Shyamanand Jalan
Sreela Majumdar
CinematographyShakti Banerjee
Edited byBulu Ghosh
Music byUtpalendu Chakrabarty
Release date
  • 1982 (1982) (India)
Running time
98 min
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Chokh (lit. The Eyes) is a 1983 Indian Bengali film directed by Utpalendu Chakrabarty, with Om Puri, Anil Chatterjee, Shyamanand Jalan and Sreela Majumdar in lead roles. The film is set in 1975 and the oppression and exploitation of Jute mill workers in Kolkata.[1][2]

At the 30th National Film Awards he won the awards for Best Feature Film as well as Best Direction award for the director.[3][4]

Plot

The film is set during the Emergency period in December 1975. Jadunath a labour union leader, of Jethia Jute Mill in Kolkata has been given a death sentence, for the murders of owner Jethia's brother, and another worker, even though he never committed them. Before dying, he pledges his eyes for donation. However, when the mill owner finds about this, he tries to maneuver the medical system to get both eyes for his blind son. Meanwhile, the doctor discovers that the donation papers provided by Jethia to be fake. Soon the mill workers get united behind the widow of Jadunath and hold a protest rally against the injustice. The film is a documentation of the time.

Cast

References

  1. ^ "Chokh". Upperstall.com. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  2. ^ Chaudhuri, Sukanta (1990). Calcutta, the Living City: The present and future. Oxford University Press. p. 313. ISBN 9780195625868.
  3. ^ "30th National Film Awards". International Film Festival of India. Archived from the original on 3 October 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
  4. ^ "30th National Film Awards (PDF)" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 4 October 2011.

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