Siddartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee) is forced to discontinue his medical studies due to unexpected and brutal death of his father. He has to now find a job in stead. In one job interview, he is asked to name the most significant world event in the last ten years. His reply is 'the plain human courage shown by the people of Vietnam', instead of the expected - man landing on moon. The interviewer asks is he is a communist. Needles to say that he does not get the job.
He reaches a coffee shop where he is offered to work for the communist party. When he does not show any interest the party leader tells him about an opening for a medical representative. To escape from the heat and have a snooze, he goes in to a cinema. As a government propaganda newsreel is being shown before the feature, a bomb explodes in the cinema hall. In the stampede that follows, Siddartha, breaks his watch. He goes to a watchmaker but he cannot afford the repairs.
Waiting to cross the road, he notices a sexy girl. He drifts back to his days as a medical student in a flashback. The professor is explaining anatomy of female breast. Many flashbacks and dreams occur to Siddartha through the film.
On his way to hostel, he has an encounter with some hippies. Along with an ex-classmate, he goes out to see a porn film but to their disappointment, the film turns out to be not-so-pornographic.
In such constant wandering in a Calcutta, disintegrated relationships with his sister and a Naxalite (militant communist) brother, his friendship with Keya is only thing that keeps him sane.
Keya is a simple girl. They enjoy each other's company but they cannot make any commitment to each other due to the circumstances.
After yet another attempt at a job interview, Siddartha leaves the big city to take a modest job of a salesman in a far off small town. He writes to Keya that he still cherishes their relationship. And that he has heard that bird call again but this time it is for real, and not his mind. After completing the letter, he comes out to the balcony of his modest room. The bird calls again. He also hears the sombre chants of a funeral procession. As he turns to the camera, the picture is frozen.
This is the first film of the Calcutta Trilogy. The other two were and Seemabaddha (Company Limited, 1971) and Jana Aranya (The Middle Man, 1975). All the three films study the effect the big city of Calcutta has on the educated youth and the price it extracts from them.
The seventies were a difficult period for India and West Bengal. The Corruption was rampant; the Naxalite movement had created havoc in Calcutta. In fact, they had turned parts of Calcutta into 'liberated zones'. By the time the Naxalite movement died down, in 1975, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (then, Prime Minister of India) suppressed the fundamental rights and declared "Emergency" for her own political survival. Her son, Sanjay Gandhi became a dictator of sorts without any official designation. The opposition leaders were thrown into prisons.
About his social responsibilities as a filmmaker, in an interview with Cineaste magazine, Ray commented, "You can see my attitude in The Adversary where you have two brothers. The younger brother is a Naxalite. There is no doubt that the elder brother admires the younger brother for his bravery and convictions. The film is not ambiguous about that. As a filmmaker, however, I was more interested in the elder brother because he is the vacillating character. As a psychological entity, as a human being with doubts, he is a more interesting character to me. The younger brother has already identified himself with a cause. That makes him part of a total attitude and makes him unimportant. The Naxalite movement takes over. He, as a person, becomes insignificant."
In a letter to Seton in 1970, Ray wrote that Pratidwandi was the most provocative film he had made till then. The film is said to have evoked extreme reactions. "People either loved the film or hated it", Dhritiman Chatterjee told Andrew Robinson, Ray's biographer.
意外之喜，非常有意义的同性电影，配乐也很赞。Love is love.和大鹅看的第五部电影。
4剧本里的对话都是润奇写的，润奇有编潮汕方言台词的天赋，能将那种“土味”写出来。有设定台词，但现场排练的时候，会根据演员搭戏的反应再进行二次创作。
妈妈嫌弃的小嘀咕真实还挺有趣 再怎么看不惯好像所有父母最后都会对子女的伴侣爱屋及乌的
最後二十分鐘的大團圓結局
挺惊讶是印度的电影。西方国家开放的早，形婚可能已经成为过去式。关于Lgbt的欧美电影很少有叙述这类家庭压力的。但亚洲大部分仍然存在关于形婚和出柜，传宗接代的压力。
比《爸，我一定行的》好些，摄影更好，细节也做得更好了，更有电影的质感。看得出导演是港片迷，有港片情怀，某些套路/节奏/笑点像是模仿老港片的，什么地方发生什么剧情，都可以预见。剧情有些地方还是不够流畅，男主和某些配角演技有时候生硬了点，不太自然，有点尬。男女主角CP感不够，互动不够亲密，某些情节设计又挺让我费解的，女主这么优秀，一个人在深圳打拼，性格却这么温柔顺从，少了点个性的样子。男主妈妈演得更好，结尾在飞机上妈妈说“你是不是觉得妈妈很差劲”（类似这样的台词），这时候挺打动人的。融入的潮汕地区传统文化和婚育话题，挺真实的，倒是让我感到有点不适，个人也不喜欢这些东西，比如催婚，催生，婆婆教媳妇拜神，算命等等。片子的音乐，插曲，片尾曲好评，很好听，融入得还不错，里面还有王家卫《花样年华》的曲子。
我们一直都在跟整个世界对抗撕扯吧，人与人，人与环境。前面喜剧成分有点多，看的不太专注，到结尾的时候还有点没反应过来。
印度都有关于同性电影，希望我们国家也越来越包容。虽然我不支持同性婚姻，但不妨碍我希望他们🈶️更多生活空间。最后被女主父亲的爱感动，父母是我们大树也是软肋
水平不大行，演员的面像过于市井了，11分钟弃剧
就冲着最后父母的接受和理解 这电影我觉得还不错 母亲和他相拥的时候的大哭 感觉是心疼他的委屈和妥协
就。。还蛮喜剧的，我想说你们真的已经到了可以在这个领域里写命题作文的地步了吗。。形式理论基础抓的真牢，难怪PPT都做不过你们。
就是地方台常拍的那种家长里短剧，只能说鼓励这种在地文化的创作，但电影本身并不好看。
很可能会因为片名和宣传错过的地方题材好电影！
形婚是一个普遍存在的社会问题，其根源就在于社会和法律对同性婚姻的不认同，以至于引发了很多伦理法律难题，其实仅仅一个接受就可以避免很多家庭的悲剧，为何不能给予更多包容与理解呢？
很奇妙的一次观影体验 在看之前我是不知道自己和女主有那么多相似的经历 可能人生如戏 戏如人生吧 陪你看电影的那个人 才是决定你爱不爱看电影的原因呐
海报设计我也还蛮喜欢的、就因为海报看完了整个电影、剧情三星一星给医生女二、不要太美…
赞赏印度和韩国的勇气，比中国人敢拍，可能他们没有广电总局这样机构存在。这部片子结尾太美好，但是后面的生活还会继续，问题还会存在。
被告知可以领养时的拥抱和出柜后的那通电话～记忆深刻～
同居两年还不生，奶奶教你；五牲高香拜三拜，心诚则灵。
亚裔女孩和那个白人男孩选的不错 不然我真分不清楚
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