Under the Blue Sky
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.
Release Date
February 20, 1959Runtime
133 minGenres
DramaDirected by
Mrinal SenScreenplay by
Mrinal SenLanguage
BengaliBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
Released
