The Crossing

The Crossing — Plot

When a Dalit wins the elections for mayor in his small village in northeastern India, deadly rioting forces an impoverished couple to escape to Calcutta where they can hopefully find work. Instead, they end up sleeping on the streets until they have a chance at earning a little income -- a man has asked them to take his herd of pigs across a fast-moving river. The current is dangerous, and worse, the wife is pregnant and this would not be an easy task even if she were not. Undaunted and desperate, the couple accept the job and enter the river to face their destiny.

• Release date
• September 14, 1984
• Runtime
• 141 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Goutam Ghose

The Crossing — Cast

Naseeruddin Shah Naurangia Shabana Azmi Rama Utpal Dutt Bhola Singh Om Puri Ramnaresh Mohan Agashe Hari Singh Anil Chatterjee Schoolmaster Ruma Guha Thakurta Sunil Mukherjee Chamku