Padatik

Directed by Srijit Mukherji

With Chanchal Chowdhury, Korak Samanta, Monami Ghosh, Samrat Chakrabarti and Jeetu Kamal

Mrinal Sen is in his early days around the time of India’s independence, where he is a struggling idealist with an all-consuming hunger for cinema but unable to feed himself or his young wife, to 1950s Calcutta, where (alongside Satyajit Ray) he helped start the Indian New Wave cinema movement.