The Man with the Axe

After being accused wrongly of theft, a slightly addled servant runs away to the city, carrying as his only real possession an axe, which he claims to have killed a tiger with. He takes up life among India's throngs of city-dwelling homeless, and for a little while almost has a decent time of it. He has a girlfriend, and one good friend, and gets by through begging and doing odd jobs.

• Release date
• February 1, 1979
• Runtime
• 100 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Mrinal Sen

Cast

Arun Mukherjee Parashuram

B

Bibhas Chakraborty Sreela Majumdar Alhadi

J

Jayanta Bhattacharya Beggar

S

Sujal Roy Chowdhury

N

Nilkantha Sengupta

A

Arijit Guha

R

Reba Roy Chowdhury