Interview
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​A dawn to dusk account of a young man in search of a job. This is his day of an interview in a swell Indo-British firm where, logically, he has to look his best. His only suit, a complete one, is in the laundry, and as luck would have it, all city laundries are on strike from that morning. The film is an intense search for a new suit to be borrowed from any of his friends, the loss of a good one procured that way, again a frantic search, and finally the interview—all erratic blending of fictional narrative, news reel coverage and near-cinema-verite type documentation. The film ends with a strange interview between the dejected young man and an unseen spectator who has watched him since the film started. And at last the film arrives at a moment of judgment  -- that of the value-world.

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Language:  Bengali (1970, Black & White)
Screenplay: Mrinal Sen
Director:  Mrinal Sen
Producer:  Mrinal Sen Productions
Story:  Asish Burman
Camera:  K.K.Mahajan
Music:  Vijay Raghav Rao
Cast:  Ranjit Mullick
          Karuna Banerjee
          Shekhar Chatterjee
          Bulbul Mukherjee
          Mamta
Awards & Nominations:
     Sri Lanka International Film Festival - Critics Award
​     Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Best Actor
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​Mamata and Karuna Banerjee.

Bulbul Mukherjee.

Mrinal Sen directing Ranjit Mallick and Shekhar Chatterjee. The Market scene was shot at Lake Market in South Calcutta.

The Interview sequence, shot in the conference room of IBM in Calcutta. Interestingly, the film displays a slogan where computers are viewed as "job eating machines".

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Mrinal Sen directing Bulbul Mukherjee.