Chorus

Dec 30 2018 Not Rated 2h 4m
Drama, Fantasy

A small company advertises for 100 vacancies and 30,000 apply. The applicants are all from the ranks of the poor and there is a virtual riot. Everyone around is seeking for opportunities. Among them are the applicants who desperately need the job, the photographer who is busy seeking a scoop, the village moneylender who is busy exploiting the poor, the ineffective police, the employers who are advertising posts even while a six month old strike has nearly caused the workmen to become destitute. It is a story of society captured in a tiny framework of a small business. Ultimately, the workmen, the unemployed and the farmers all get to gether to protest against this exploitation.

Plot

It begins like a fairy tale. It starts with a ritual. A bard appears on the screen and sings.Glory be the new gods who have descended to the Earth.The chairman of the gods, concerned over the problem of want, arranges for a hundred jobs. But thousands queue for them. Too many people, too many faces, too many problems. The crowd gets disillusioned and popular discontent is mobilized as word spreads that this is just another hoax. The Chorus as well as performing the traditional role of the storyteller provides the political message, juxtaposing stylization and caricature with neo-realist and documentary sequences and direct address to the camera.

Written by

Mohit Chatterjee, Mrinal Sen

Directed by

Mrinal Sen

Cast

Utpal Dutt, Ajit Banerjee, Shekhar Chatterjee

Crew

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Production Countries

India

Production Companies

Mrinal Sen Productions

Languages

Awards

3 wins & 1 nomination

Scores
# of Votes
123
Average Rating
7.5 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA