Movie

Under the Blue Sky

★ 8/10 · 1 votes 1959 2h 13m Released

Drama

Set in the turbulent 1930s, this is the story of a poor Chinese hawker selling his merchandise, Chinese silk, in the streets of Calcutta. This was the time when China was repulsing a brutal attack of militarist Japan and when an outraged Rabindranath Tagore wrote to his friend in Japan, the great poet Noguchi: “I wish your countrymen, whom I love so much, not success but remorse”. This film holds the dubious distinction of being the first to be banned (though temporarily) in independent India.

Cast

Kali Bannerjee Wang Lu Manju Dey Basanti Smriti Biswas Bikash Roy Basanti's Husband S Suruchi Sengupta Ajit Chatterjee