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.

• Release date
• February 20, 1959
• Runtime
• 133 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Mrinal Sen

Cast

Kali Bannerjee Wang Lu Manju Dey Basanti Smriti Biswas Bikash Roy Basanti's Husband

S

Suruchi Sengupta Ajit Chatterjee

P

Priya Chatterjee

R

Rasaraj Chakraborty