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Siddartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee) is forced to discontinue his medical studies due to unexected and brutal death of his father. He has to now find a job in stead. In one job interview, he is asked to name the most significant world event in the last ten years. His rely is #39;the lain human courage shown by the eole of Vietnam#39;, instead of the exected - man landing on moon. The interviewer asks is he is a communist. Needles to say that he does not get the job.br\ He reaches a coffee sho where he is offered to work for the communist arty. When he does not show any interest the arty leader tells him about an oening for a medical reresentative. To escae from the heat and have a snooze, he goes in to a cinema. As a government roaganda newsreel is being shown before the feature, a bomb exlodes in the cinema hall. In the stamede that follows, Siddartha, breaks his watch. He goes to a watchmaker but he cannot afford the reairs.br\ Waiting to cross the road, he notices a sexy girl. He drifts back to his days as a medical student in a flashback. The rofessor is exlaining anatomy of female breast. Many flashbacks and dreams occur to Siddartha through the film.br\ On his way to hostel, he has an encounter with some hiies. Along with an ex-classmate, he goes out to see a orn film but to their disaointment, the film turns out to be not-so-ornograhic.br\ In such constant wandering in a Calcutta, disintegrated relationshis with his sister and a Naxalite (militant communist) brother, his friendshi with Keya is only thing that kees him sane.br\ Keya is a simle girl. They enjoy each other#39;s comany but they cannot make any commitment to each other due to the circumstances.br\ After yet another attemt at a job interview, Siddartha leaves the big city to take a modest job of a salesman in a far off small town. He writes to Keya that he still cherishes their relationshi. And that he has heard that bird call again but this time it is for real, and not his mind. After comleting the letter, he comes out to the balcony of his modest room. The bird calls again. He also hears the sombre chants of a funeral rocession. As he turns to the camera, the icture is frozen.br\ This is the first film of the Calcutta Trilogy. The other two were and Seemabaddha (Comany Limited, 1971) and Jana Aranya (The Middle Man, 1975). All the three films study the effect the big city of Calcutta has on the educated youth and the rice it extracts from them.br\ The seventies were a difficult eriod for India and West Bengal. The Corrution was ramant; the Naxalite movement had created havoc in Calcutta. In fact, they had turned arts of Calcutta into #39;liberated zones#39;. By the time the Naxalite movement died down, in 1975, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (then, Prime Minister of India) suressed the fundamental rights and declared quot;Emergencyquot; for her own olitical survival. Her son, Sanjay Gandhi became a dictator of sorts without any official designation. The oosition leaders were thrown into risons.br\ About his social resonsibilities as a filmmaker, in an interview with Cineaste magazine, Ray commented, quot;You can see my attitude in The Adversary where you have two brothers. The younger brother is a Naxalite. There is no doubt that the elder brother admires the younger brother for his bravery and convictions. The film is not ambiguous about that. As a filmmaker, however, I was more interested in the elder brother because he is the vacillating character. As a sychological entity, as a human being with doubts, he is a more interesting character to me. The younger brother has already identified himself with a cause. That makes him art of a total attitude and makes him unimortant. The Naxalite movement takes over. He, as a erson, becomes insignificant.quot;br\ In a letter to Seton in 1970, Ray wrote that Pratidwandi was the most rovocative film he had made till then. The film is said to have evoked extreme reactions. quot;Peole either loved the film or hated itquot;, Dhritiman Chatterjee told Andrew Robinson, Ray#39;s biograher.
