The Man with the Axe (1979)
After being accused wrongly of theft, a slightly addled servant runs away to the city, carrying as his only real possession an axe, which he claims to have killed a tiger with. He takes up life among India's throngs of city-dwelling homeless, and for a little while almost has a decent time of it. He has a girlfriend, and one good friend, and gets by through begging and doing odd jobs.
Director:
Mrinal Sen
Writers:
Mrinal Sen, Mohit Chattopadhyay.
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Arun Mukherjee as Parashuram |
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Bibhas Chakraborty as |
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Sreela Majumdar as Alhadi |
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Jayanta Bhattacharya as Beggar |
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Sujal Roy Chowdhury as |
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Nilkantha Sengupta as |
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Arijit Guha as |
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Reba Roy Chowdhury as |
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Arati Das as |
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Anuradha Debi as |
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Radharani Devi as |
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Ashok Mukherjee as |
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Shailen Ganguli as |
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Samaresh Banerjee as |
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Abhijit Ghosh as |
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Paltu Dev Sharma as |
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Faran Tilat as |
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Nripen Sanyal as |
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Jayanti Sanyal as |
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Nisha Ruparel as |
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Sreemati Guhathakurta as |
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Neeta Kabra as |
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Nimai Ghosh as |
| Directing | Mrinal Sen | Director |
| Editing | Gangadhar Naskar | Editor |
| Art | Suresh Chandra | Art Direction |
| Writing | Mrinal Sen | Screenplay |
| Writing | Mohit Chattopadhyay | Screenplay |
| Camera | Ranajit Roy | Director of Photography |
| Sound | B.V. Karanth | Original Music Composer |