Chorus (1974)
2h 4m
Running Time
January 4, 1974Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Utpal Dutt
Manager
Ajit Banerjee
Actor
Shekhar Chatterjee
Mr. Mukherjee (Worker)
Radhamohan Bhattacharya
Actor
Mrinal Sen
Director
Ananda Shankar
Composer
K.K. Mahajan
Cinematographer
Gangadhar Naskar
Editor
Mohit Chattopadhya
Writer / Songs / Story
Golam Khuddus
Story
Nirmal Ghosh
Snighda Majumdar
Dilip Roy
Rasaraj Chakraborty
Rabi Ghosh
Satya Bandopadhyay
Details.
Wiki.
Chorus is a 1974 Bengali film directed by noted Indian art film director Mrinal Sen under the banner of Mrinal Sen Productions. It was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Silver Prize.