The Crossing

The story

When a Dalit wins the elections for mayor in his small village in northeastern India, deadly rioting forces an impoverished couple to escape to Calcutta where they can hopefully find work. Instead, they end up sleeping on the streets until they have a chance at earning a little income -- a man has asked them to take his herd of pigs across a fast-moving river. The current is dangerous, and worse, the wife is pregnant and this would not be an easy task even if she were not. Undaunted and desperate, the couple accept the job and enter the river to face their destiny.

Cast

N Naseeruddin ShahNaurangia S Shabana AzmiRama U Utpal DuttBhola Singh O Om PuriRamnaresh M Mohan AgasheHari Singh A Anil ChatterjeeSchoolmaster R Ruma Guha Thakurta S Sunil MukherjeeChamku K Kamu MukherjeeHeadman M Masood Akhtar U Usha Ganguly K Kalyan Chatterjee

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B Bimal Deb B Bhopal Reddy S Sujal Roy Chowdhury R Reba Roy Chowdhury N Nandu Chatterjee S Sunil Kumar Biswas N Niranjan Roy N Nirmal Mitra K Kalipada Chakraborty S S. P. Mukherjee P Prabir Ganguly P Paritosh Roy D Dipti Bhatt S Subir Mukherjee S Shyamal Ghoshal A Atmanan Singh R Roopa Ganguly S Shiv Shankar Banerjee P Polly Sanyal A Amar Bhattacharya S Shibu Joarddar A Arun Maitra J Jitendra Shrivastav B Bharati Mitra M Manisha Ghosh