Set in the turbulent 1930s, this is the story of a poor Chinese hawker selling his merchandise, Chinese silk, in the streets of Calcutta. This was the time when China was repulsing a brutal attack of militarist Japan and when an outraged Rabindranath Tagore wrote to his friend in Japan, the great poet Noguchi: “I wish your countrymen, whom I love so much, not success but remorse”. This film holds the dubious distinction of being the first to be banned (though temporarily) in independent India.

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Cast

Kali Bannerjee

Wang Lu

Manju Dey

Basanti

Smriti Biswas

Bikash Roy

Basanti's Husband

Ajit Chatterjee

Shailen Mukherjee

Monu Mukherjee