Under the Blue Sky

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.

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

133 min

Actor:

Kali Bannerjee, Manju Dey, Smriti Biswas

Quality:

HD

Director:

Mrinal Sen

Release:

1959

Country:

India

IMDb:

8.0