Padatik - The Foot Soldier

May. 10,2024      
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

The film follows Mrinal Sen 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.

Chanchal Chowdhury as  Mrinal Sen
Korak Samanta as  Young Mrinal Sen
Monami Ghosh as  Gita Sen
Samrat Chakrabarti as  Kunal Sen
Shatarup Ghosh as  Self

Reviews

Matialth
2024/05/10

Good concept, poorly executed.

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ChicRawIdol
2024/05/11

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

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Derrick Gibbons
2024/05/12

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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Tymon Sutton
2024/05/13

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

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