Armed daily with two canisters of water, sacks, shovels, burnt wood and saplings, all mounted on a bicycle, a poor, completely-illiterate old villager spends his years planting trees on the roadsides and taking care for them.
Daytime. A pair of lovers enter a house deserted by a flood. She has run away from home. He is not in a condition to start a life with her. The wind blows heavy in the fields of long grass.
The encyclopedia of world cinema is incomplete without the inclusion of the many volumes on Indian cinema. Such is the contribution of India to this art form. The pantheon of world greats from the cinema of India extends to every important filmic category. In recent times, though, there's been a drop in the standard of films being made. What can, and must be done to correct this? This documentary declares that every Indian citizen has a right to free education on the alphabets of cinema.
A comparative study by film critics Siladitya Sen and Christopher Dalton on the cinema of Ritwik Ghatak, Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen, with special focus on Madabhi Mukherjii, the only actress who starred in the films of all three legends.
