
133 minutes
2/20/1959
Set in the turbulent 1930s, this is the story of a poor Chinese hawker selling his merchandise, Chinese silk, in the streets of Calcutta. This was the time when China was repulsing a brutal attack of militarist Japan and when an outraged Rabindranath Tagore wrote to his friend in Japan, the great poet Noguchi: “I wish your countrymen, whom I love so much, not success but remorse”. This film holds the dubious distinction of being the first to be banned (though temporarily) in independent India.

Kali Bannerjee
as Wang Lu

Manju Dey
as Basanti

Smriti Biswas

Bikash Roy
as Basanti's Husband
Suruchi Sengupta

Ajit Chatterjee
Priya Chatterjee
Rasaraj Chakraborty
Lee Chiu Fong
Yi Show Wen
Bhaskar Deb
Ajit Bandyopadhyay

Shailen Mukherjee
Chandi Chatterjee

Monu Mukherjee
Sudhir Basu
Robin Banerjee
Liu Chang Ching
Yong Chin Tien
Liao Tai Sheng
Quo Lin An
Chen Chuan Long
Liu Wang Wan
Ranu
Bablu
Subit
Barun
Gora
Prabir