Under the Blue Sky

(1959)

★ 8 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1959

Runtime: 133 мин

Country: India

Director: Mrinal Sen

Cast: Kali Bannerjee, Manju Dey, Smriti Biswas, Bikash Roy, Suruchi Sengupta, Ajit Chatterjee, Priya Chatterjee, Rasaraj Chakraborty, Lee Chiu Fong, Yi Show Wen

Plot

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.