A bright and idealistic young graduate steels himself for a dog-eat-dog world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls. When he eventually decides to start his own business as a middle-man, he discovers that the world of business does not live up to his lofty ideals.

The Middleman (1976)

★ 7.2/10 February 20, 1976 131 min

Drama

Director: Satyajit Ray  ·  Writer: Satyajit Ray

A bright and idealistic young graduate steels himself for a dog-eat-dog world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls. When he eventually decides to start his own business as a middle-man, he discovers that the world of business does not live up to his lofty ideals.

Director

Satyajit Ray

Cast

Pradip Mukherjee Somnath Banerjee Satya Banerjee Somnath's Father Dipankar Dey Bhombol Banerjee Lily Chakravarty Kamala Banerjee Aparna Sen Somnath's ex-girlfriend Gautam Chakraborty Sukumar Utpal Dutt Bishwanath 'Bishu' Bose Arati Bhattacharya Molina Ganguli Bimal Chatterjee Adok Kalyan Chatterjee Somnath's friend Santosh Dutta Hiralal Shah Bimal Deb Jagabandhu