''Dakhal'' () is a

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Indian Bengali film directed by

Gautam Ghose Goutam Ghose (also spelled Gautam Ghosh born 24 July 1950) is an Indian film director, Actor, music director and cinematographer, who works primarily in Bengali cinema. He is the only Indian to have received the "Vittorio Di Sica" Award, Italy ...

, with

Mamata Shankar Mamata Shankar (born 7 January 1955) is an Indian actress and dancer. She is known for her work in Bengali cinema. She has acted in films by directors including Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Rituparno Ghosh, Buddhadeb Dasgupta and Gautam Ghosh. I ...

, Robin Sen Gupta, Sunil Mukherjee and Sujal Roy Chowdhury in lead roles. The film is about a woman belonging to

nomadic tribe A nomad is a member of a community without fixed habitation who regularly moves to and from the same areas. Such groups include hunter-gatherers, pastoral nomads (owning livestock), tinkers and trader nomads. In the twentieth century, the pop ...

from

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, known as crow hunters, who elopes and moves to south Bengal and makes a living by occult practices. It deals with the issue of exploitation of tribal people by the deceitful landlord. The film was based on ''Amma'', a short story of Sushil Jana. This the first Bengali-language feature film by Ghosh, who had previously made documentaries and ''

Maa Bhoomi ''Maa Bhoomi'' () is a 1979 Indian Telugu-language social problem film directed by Goutam Ghose in his debut. The film is produced by B. Narsing Rao, who also wrote the film with Goutam Ghose. The film is based on the novel ''Jab Khet Jage'' by ...

'' in Telugu. At the

29th National Film Awards The 29th National Film Awards, presented by Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of Indian Cinema released in the year 1981. Ceremony took place in Apr ...

it won the awards for

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. At the 11th International Human Rights Film Festival in Paris it won the Grand Jury Prize.

Cast

as Andi * Robin Sen Gupta * Sunil Mukherjee * Sujal Roy Chowdhury * Bimal Deb

References

External links

* 1981 films Bengali-language Indian films Best Feature Film National Film Award winners Social realism in film Films directed by Goutam Ghose Films set in West Bengal 1980s Bengali-language films Films based on Indian novels {{1980s-Bengali-film-stub