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andrew-manavian
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Sonar Kella (1974)
An Indian Road Trip Movie from the 60's.
18 August 2012 - 8 out of 10 users found this review helpful.
This is an Indian Road Trip Movie, from the 1960's. The story is solid, and the pace is appropriate.
If you do not understand Bengali, you will definitely miss a lot of the innuendos, and the subtitles will not help you out with their literal translation! The young child is an excellent actor, and I wasn't surprised to see that he is now a very successful actor in Tollywood movies (Bollywood is the Hindi movie industry based in Bombay/Mumbai, Tollywood is the Bengali movie industry, based out of Tollygunj in Kolkata).
The cinematography works well, and does present an evocative view of India 40-45 years ago.
The DVD print isn't great for the night scenes...that is the only drag on an otherwise excellent movie.
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