| Dakhal | |
| Director: | Gautam Ghose |
| Producer: | Government of West Bengal |
| Story: | Sushil Jana |
| Starring: | Mamata Shankar Robin Sen Gupta Sunil Mukherjee Sujal Roy Chowdhury |
| Music: | Goutam Ghose |
| Cinematography: | Goutam Ghose |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Bengali |
Dakhal is a 1981 Indian Bengali film directed by Gautam Ghose, with Mamata Shankar, Robin Sen Gupta, Sunil Mukherjee and Sujal Roy Chowdhury in lead roles. The film is about a woman belonging to a nomadic tribe from Andhra Pradesh, known as crow hunters, who elopes and moves to south Bengal and makes a living by occult practices. It deals with the issue of exploitation of tribal people by a deceitful landlord.[1] [2] The film was based on Amma, a short story of Sushil Jana.[3] [4]
This the first Bengali-language feature film by Ghosh, who had previously made documentaries and Maa Bhoomi in Telugu.[2] At the 29th National Film Awards it won the awards for Best Feature Film.[5] [6] At the 11th International Human Rights Film Festival in Paris it won the Grand Jury Prize.[1]