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.

Under the Blue Sky (1959)

★ 8/10 February 20, 1959 133 min

Drama

Director: Mrinal Sen  ·  Writer: Mrinal Sen

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.

Director

Mrinal Sen

Cast

Kali Bannerjee Wang Lu Manju Dey Basanti Smriti Biswas Bikash Roy Basanti's Husband Suruchi Sengupta Ajit Chatterjee Priya Chatterjee Rasaraj Chakraborty Lee Chiu Fong Yi Show Wen Bhaskar Deb Ajit Bandyopadhyay