: Pratidwandi (The Adversary), Seemabaddha (Company Limited) and Jana
Aranya (The Middleman) was based
on Kolkata and he depicted the contemporary social, political,
economic and individual status of the city through different stature
of the characters. Take for example the unemployed youth of
'Pratidwandi' - disillusioned, but not corrupted. But, when he is an
employee in the film 'Seemabaddha', he had to travel on the side-track
of morality and urged to live better. And thus generated frustrated,
deprived youth like 'Jana Aranya'. So, the link is there. But, as a
film-maker, he never compromised with the cinematic value and so, the
aesthetic excellence of Calcutta Trilogy is still worth watching.
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A. B.
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