Summaries

A story of poverty and hunger.

Jori is the daughter of a street singer named Saijuddin. When her mother elopes with a businessman to escape her hunger and Jori's father becomes blind from smallpox, she starts living from hand to mouth by sewing embroidery clothes with her blind father. As Jori grows up and her father's health gets worse, she struggles harder to escape from poverty and hunger.—wakim

Details

Keywords
  • death
  • based on novel
  • poverty
  • begging
  • hunger
Genres
  • Drama
Release date Dec 27, 1984
Countries of origin Bangladesh
Language English Bengali
Filming locations Bangladesh Film Development Corporation, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Production companies Saral Rekha Katha Chobi

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Tech specs

Runtime 2h 22m
Color Color
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Synopsis

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