Padatik

The film follows Mrinal Sen in his early days around the time of India’s independence, where he is a struggling idealist with an all-consuming hunger for cinema but unable to feed himself or his young wife, to 1950s Calcutta, where (alongside Satyajit Ray) he helped start the Indian New Wave cinema movement.

Director: Srijit Mukherji

Cast: Chanchal Chowdhury, Korak Samanta, Monami Ghosh, Samrat Chakrabarti, Jeetu Kamal, Sujan Mukherjee, Barun Chanda, Akshay Kapoor

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.