The read
A Balasaur Score of 82 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 8.1/10. Streaming on Prime.
Synopsis
The spirit of a condemned 20-year-old student wanders through time, linking together four stories of people struggling for survival in this gritty meditation on poverty, natural disaster and political strife in India. A middle-class family's home is no match for the monsoons, while another clan's morality is compromised when famine strikes. Young boys smuggle rice, and politicians pity the poor while living in the lap of luxury.
Ratings
IMDb8.1/10
10 audience votes
Key crew
- Mrinal SenDirector
- Ananda ShankarOriginal Music Composer
- Mrinal SenScreenplay
Cast
- Madhabi MukherjeeCast
- Gita SenThe Mother in the 1953 Story
- Binota RoyCast
- Ranjit MallickRanjit Mallick
- Utpal DuttCast
- Anubha GuptaCast
- Karuna BanerjeeCast
- Suchita Ray ChaudhuryCast
- Ajitesh BandopadhyayPolitician
- Subhash DuttaTrain Passanger
- Satya BanerjeeCast
- Haradhan BandyopadhyayJudge