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The Man with the Axe (1979)
Directed by Mrinal Sen
Drama · 1h 40m
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.
Cast
Arun Mukherjee
Sreela Majumdar
Ashok Mukherjee
Crew
- Director
- Mrinal Sen
- Screenplay
- Mrinal Sen, Mohit Chattopadhyay
- Director of Photography
- Ranajit Roy
- Original Music Composer
- B.V. Karanth
- Editor
- Gangadhar Naskar
Details
- Original title
- পরশুরাম
- Release date
- 1979-02-01
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- BN
- Spoken languages
- Bengali
- Countries
- India
- Production
- Department of Information and Cultural Affairs India, Angel Digital Private Limited, Government of West Bengal