Roy, Soumendu (Cinematographer), Jana Aranya, 1976 | Photographic Still | 00891237
Roy, Soumendu (Cinematographer), Jana Aranya, 1976 | Photographic Still
CinematographerSoumendu Roy
Document TypePhotographic Still
Film TitleJana Aranya (The Middleman), 1976, India, Bengali
Scene DescriptionSomnath is at the government's employment exchange office, applying for a job with hundreds of other unemployed young men waiting in queue. The film is set in the depressive period of 1960s and 70s when West Bengal was rife with widespread civil and political unrest, marked by the Naxalbari movement and state crackdown on Maoist revolutionaries. The socialist ideals that had led to the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) to power were being failed which was seen as a betrayal of the cause. The youth was disillusioned with the political system in general. (2/27)
ProducerSubir GuhaDirectorSatyajit RayBannerIndus Films
Art DirectorAshoke Bose
CastS. Bagchi, Krishna Banerjee, Sachin Banerjee, Pradip Mukherjee, Samaresh Banerjee, Sudip Banerjee, Lily Chakraborty, Dipankar Dey, Utpal Dutt, Rabi Ghosh, Aparna Sen
EditingDulal Dutta
LyricistRabindranath Tagore
Music DirectorSatyajit Ray
Script WriterSatyajit Ray
Keywordsjana-aranya-1975
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