Parashuram (1979 film) explained

Parashuram
Director:	Mrinal Sen
Starring:	Arun Mukherjee
Cinematography:	Ranjit Roy
Editing:	Gangadhar Naskar
Runtime:	100 minutes
Country:	India
Language:	Bengali

Parashuram (Bengali: পরশুরাম; English title The Man with the Axe) is a 1979 Bengali drama film directed and co-written by Mrinal Sen. It was entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize.^[1]

Cast

• Arun Mukherjee as Parashuram (as Arun Mukhopadhyay)
• Bibhas Chakraborty
• Sreela Majumdar as Alhadi
• Samaresh Banerjee (as Samaresh Bandyopadhyay)
• Jayanta Bhattacharya as Beggar
• Reba Roy Chowdhury
• Sujal Roy Chowdhury (as Sajal Roy Chowdhury)
• Arati Das
• Anuradha Debi (as Anuradha Deb)
• Radharani Devi
• Shailen Ganguli (as Shailen Gangopadhyay)

Awards

• National Film Award for Best Actor - Arun Mukherjee
• National Film Award for Best Editing - Gangadhar Naskar
• National Film Award – Special Mention (feature film) - Mrinal Sen

Notes and References

1. Web site: 11th Moscow International Film Festival (1979) . 19 January 2013 . MIFF . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140403102012/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1979 . 3 April 2014.