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The critic from the Los Angeles Times called the film "atmospheric and interest-holding" but thought that Gail Russell was miscast. [11] More recently, film critic Dennis Schwartz gave Calcutta a positive review, writing: John Farrow's Calcutta is a fast-paced old-fashioned adventure yarn, shot entirely in Paramount's backlot. Seton Miller does ...
The 1951 Census of India recorded that 27% of Calcutta's population was East Bengali refugees mainly Hindu Bengalis. Millions of Bengali Hindus from East Pakistan had taken refuge mainly in the city and a number of estimations shows that around 320,000 Hindus from East Pakistan had immigrated to Calcutta alone during 1946–1950 period.
The film won Best Feature Film at New Jersey International Film Festival's Spring 2023 edition. [7] Natalie Tango at New Jersey Stage compared the film to Taxi Driver and said it is a phenomenal psychological horror film, complimenting DeCesare's performance and claiming the color "tones of blue and red help indicate the film’s negative, depressing theme."
Title Director Cast Genre Notes The Bachelor's Daughters: Andrew L. Stone: Claire Trevor, Gail Russell, Ann Dvorak: Comedy: United Artists: Bad Bascomb: S. Sylvan Simon: Wallace Beery, Margaret O'Brien, Marjorie Main
The Bengal famine of 1943-44 was a major famine in the Bengal province [A] in British India during World War II. An estimated 2.1 million, [B] out of a population of 60.3 million, [2] died from starvation, malaria and other diseases aggravated by malnutrition, population displacement, unsanitary conditions, and lack of health care. Millions ...
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The film was based on the Bengal famine of 1943, which killed millions of Bengali people, and was one of the first films in Indian cinema's social-realist movement. [1] In 1949, Dharti Ke Lal also became the first Indian film to receive widespread distribution in the Soviet Union (USSR), [ 2 ] which led to the country becoming a major overseas ...
Calcutta If You Must Exile Me" is the best known single poem of the renowned Indian English poet and media personality Pritish Nandy. The poem is widely anthologised in major Indian English poetry collections and is regarded as a pioneering classic in modern Indian English writing. [ 1 ]