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1981 Indian film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Dakhal (transl.The Occupation) is a 1981 Indian Bengali film directed by Gautam Ghose, with Mamata Shankar, Robin Sen Gupta, Sunil Mukherjee and Sujal Roy Chowdhury in lead roles. The film is about a woman belonging to a nomadic tribe from Andhra Pradesh, known as crow hunters, who elopes and moves to south Bengal and makes a living by occult practices. It deals with the issue of exploitation of tribal people by a deceitful landlord.[1][2] The film was based on Amma, a short story of Sushil Jana.[3][4]

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This the first Bengali-language feature film by Ghosh, who had previously made documentaries and Maa Bhoomi in Telugu.[2] At the 29th National Film Awards it won the awards for Best Feature Film.[5][6] At the 11th International Human Rights Film Festival in Paris it won the Grand Jury Prize.[1]

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Cast

  • Mamata Shankar as Andi
  • Robin Sen Gupta
  • Sunil Mukherjee
  • Sujal Roy Chowdhury
  • Bimal Deb

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