Kaleidoscope (1981)

Plot Summary

Burning with a desire to be a journalist, a young man gets his chance when a publisher -- the father of a friend -- suggests that he write a story on the daily life of the people in his house (several families worth of people). The material turns out to be too incohesive and abundant to work into a pointed, thematic article, and just when he is about to give up, his younger brother asks him a simple question: "How many coal burners are there in Calcutta?" This triggers an idea for a story about Calcutta's pollution -- and the aspiring journalist dreams of myriads of burner-toting citizens invading the publisher's home demanding redress. Maybe he is finally on the way to a story that matters.

Full Cast & Characters

Anjan Dutt

Dipu

Gita Sen

Utpal Dutt

Newspaper Editor

Paresh Ghosh

Purnima Debi

Kalpana Mukhopadhyay

Arun Mukherjee

Kolpona

Jyoti Chatterjee

Rekha

Rekha Chatterjee

Radharani Devi

Kakoli Bose

Arati Chakraborty

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