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{{Infobox film
| name           = Akaler Sandhane (In Search of Famine)
| image          = AkalerSandhanePoster.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Mrinal Sen]]
| producer       = D. K. Films
| writer         = [[Mrinal Sen]]<br/>Amalendu Chakraborty
| narrator       =
| starring       = [[Dhritiman Chatterjee]]<br/>[[Smita Patil]]<br/>Gita Sen<br/>[[Rajen Tarafdar]]<br/>Sreela Mazumder<br/>Radhamohan Bhattachariya<br/>Jayanta Chowdhury<br/>[[Dipankar De]]<br/>Jochhan Dastidar
| music          = [[Salil Chowdhury]]
| cinematography = [[K. K. Mahajan]]
| editing        = Gangadhar Naskar
| distributor    =
| released       = {{Film date|1982}}
| runtime        = 115 minutes
| country        = India
| language       = Bengali
| budget         =
}}
'''''Akaler Shandhaney''''' ({{langx|bn|আকালের সন্ধানে}}; {{literally}} "In Search of Famine") is a 1982 [[India]]n [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali]]-language film directed by [[Mrinal Sen]].<ref name="28NFA">{{cite web | url=https://www.dff.nic.in/Archive.aspx?ID=6 | title=National Film Awards Archives | publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals, Govt. of India | accessdate=10 August 2021 | pages=6, 10, 11, 18}}</ref>
== Plot ==
In September 1980, a film crew comes to a village to make a film about a famine, which killed five million Bangalis in 1943. It was a man-made famine, a side-product of the war, and the film crew will create the tragedy of the millions who died of starvation. The film documents the convivial life among the film crew and the hazards, problems and tension of filmmaking on location. The actors live a double life, and the villagers, both simple and not-so-simple, flock to watch their work with wonder and suspicion. But as the film progresses, the recreated past begins to confront the present. The uneasy coexistence of 1943 and 1980 reveals a bizarre connection, involving a village woman whose visions add a further dimension of time—that of the future. A disturbing situation, indeed, for the "famine-seekers"!<ref name="28NFA" />
== Cast ==
*[[Dhritiman Chatterjee]]
*[[Smita Patil]]
*Gita Sen
*[[Rajen Tarafdar]]
*Sreela Mazumder
*Radhamohan Bhattachariya
*Jayanta Chowdhury
*[[Dipankar De]]
*Jochhan Dastidar
==Awards==
* 1981 – [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mrinalsen.org/akaler_shandhaney.htm |title=Akaler Shandhaney @ Mrinalsen.Org}}</ref>
* 1981 – [[National Film Award for Best Direction]] ([[Mrinal Sen]])
* 1981 – [[National Film Award for Best Screenplay]] (Mrinal Sen)
* 1981 – [[National Film Award for Best Editing]] (Gangadhar Naskar)
* 1981 – [[31st Berlin International Film Festival]] – [[Jury Grand Prix|Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize]].<ref name="berlinale">{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1981/03_preistr_ger_1981/03_Preistraeger_1981.html |title=Berlinale 1981: Prize Winners |access-date=2010-08-22 |work=berlinale.de}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0080341}}
{{Mrinal Sen}}
{{NationalFilmAwardBestFeatureFilm}}
{{Silver Bear for Jury Grand Prix}}
{{Bengal famine of 1943|state=collapsed}}
{{Famine in India}}
[[Category:1980 films]]
[[Category:Bengali-language Indian films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Mrinal Sen]]
[[Category:Films whose director won the Best Director National Film Award]]
[[Category:Best Feature Film National Film Award winners]]
[[Category:Films about famine]]
[[Category:Films whose editor won the Best Film Editing National Award]]
[[Category:Films scored by Salil Chowdhury]]
[[Category:Films whose writer won the Best Original Screenplay National Film Award]]
[[Category:1980s Bengali-language films]]
[[Category:Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize winners]]
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