INDIA · 1965
The Golden Thread
Indian Parallel Cinema
refugee displacement
class mobility
social obligation vs personal advancement
post-partition India
industrial labor
Synopsis
After an old college friend offers him a job at an iron foundry, the upright and honest Ishwar leaves a shanty town on the outskirts of Calcutta where he lives with a group of refugees from East Bengal. With plans to forge a solid living for himself, sister Sita and Abhiram, an orphaned boy he offers a home to, Ishwar is accused of selling out and deserting his people.
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