Mrigayaa is an Indian

Cinema of India

The cinema of India consists of films produced across India, which includes the cinematic culture of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal. Indian films came to be followed throughout South Asia and...

 film in Hindi

Hindi

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, directed by Mrinal Sen

Mrinal Sen

Mrinal Sen is a Bengali Indian filmmaker. He was born on 14 May 1923, in the town of Faridpur, now in Bangladesh in a Hindu family. After finishing his high school there, he left home to come to Calcutta as a student and studied physics at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the...

 and produced by Kishor Bagri was released in 1976

1976 in film

The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film...

. Kishor currently is working with Balaji Telefilms.The film stars Mithun Chakraborty

Mithun Chakraborty

Mithun Chakraborty is an Indian film actor, social activist, and entrepreneur, who has won three National Film Awards. He made his acting debut with the arthouse drama Mrigaya , for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor....

 in his debut film which also won him the prestigious National Film Award for Best Actor

National Film Award for Best Actor

The National Film Award for Best Actor is an honor presented annually at the National Film Awards of India to an actor who has delivered the best performance in a leading role within the Indian film industry.-Background:The Directorate of Film Festivals makes awards annually in several categories...

. The movie portrayed the relationship between the British colonialists and native villagers, and their exploitation by Indian landlords in 1920's India. It also depicts the development of a friendship between a British administrator with a flair for game hunting, and a village man, who is an expert archer. This happens in the backdrop of the awakening of the Indian people against the British rule.

Cast

• Mithun Chakraborty
  Mithun Chakraborty
  Mithun Chakraborty is an Indian film actor, social activist, and entrepreneur, who has won three National Film Awards. He made his acting debut with the arthouse drama Mrigaya , for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor....
  
   - Ghinua
• Mamata Shankar
  Mamata Shankar
  Mamata Shankar is an actress in the Bengali language film industry of India. She has acted in films by renowned film directors including, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Rituparno Ghosh, Buddhadev Dasgupta and Gautam Ghosh...
  
  
• Asit Bandopadhyay
• Shekhar Chatterji
• Sadhu Meher
  Sadhu Meher
  Sadhu Meher is an Indian actor, director, and producer .He contribute for both oriya and Hindi films.He is one of the founders of parallel cinema in mid 80s.He won a National Film Award for Best Actor for Ankur .-Filmography:...
  
  
• Ganesh Mukherjee
• Anoop Kumar
  Anoop Kumar
  Anoop Kumar , born Kalyan Kumar Ganguly, was an Indian film actor who appeared in over seventy-five Bollywood films.-Personal life:Kalyan was born into a Hindu family in Khandwa, Central Provinces and Berar . His father Kunjalal Ganguly was a lawyer and his mother Gouri Devi came from a wealthy...
  
  
• Sanjal
• Samit Bhanja
• Tom Alter
  Tom Alter
  Tom Alter is an Indian actor of American origin. As a thespian and television actor, he is best known for his work in Bollywood, but has also worked in the theatre...
  
  

Awards

Won

• National Film Award for Best Film
  National Film Award for Best Film
  The National Award for Best Feature film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, India, and was constituted in the year 1954. This is one of the Golden Lotus Awards given among National Film Awards...
  
   - Mrinal Sen
  Mrinal Sen
  Mrinal Sen is a Bengali Indian filmmaker. He was born on 14 May 1923, in the town of Faridpur, now in Bangladesh in a Hindu family. After finishing his high school there, he left home to come to Calcutta as a student and studied physics at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the...
  
  
• National Film Award for Best Actor
  National Film Award for Best Actor
  The National Film Award for Best Actor is an honor presented annually at the National Film Awards of India to an actor who has delivered the best performance in a leading role within the Indian film industry.-Background:The Directorate of Film Festivals makes awards annually in several categories...
  
   - Mithun Chakraborty
  Mithun Chakraborty
  Mithun Chakraborty is an Indian film actor, social activist, and entrepreneur, who has won three National Film Awards. He made his acting debut with the arthouse drama Mrigaya , for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor....
  
  

Nomination

• Moscow International Film Festival
  Moscow International Film Festival
  Moscow International Film Festival , is the film festival first held in Moscow in 1959. From its inception to 1995 it was held every second year in July, alternating with the Karlovy Vary festival. The festival has been held annually since 1995....
  
   - Golden Prize - Mrinal Sen
  Mrinal Sen
  Mrinal Sen is a Bengali Indian filmmaker. He was born on 14 May 1923, in the town of Faridpur, now in Bangladesh in a Hindu family. After finishing his high school there, he left home to come to Calcutta as a student and studied physics at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the...
  
  

External links

• A brief sketch at Mrinal Sen's website - http://mrinalsen.org/mrigaya.htm