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Portrait of an Average Man
INDIA · 1984

Portrait of an Average Man

Mrinal Sen
workplace injustice unemployment family responsibility corporate negligence social survival
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Synopsis

In this rather routine, made-for-television movie by famed Indian director Mrinal Sen, an employee (K.K. Raina) in a large office is suddenly facing unemployment because his bosses have found him guilty of negligence. He is devastated, but he cannot lose his job since he is the only support of his family. Interspersed with the employee's efforts to convince his boss, in several different ways, tha

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