在这部Char Adhyay片中,Adapted from a novella by Rabindranath Tagore, Char Adhyay captures the ideals of the Bengali Renaissance of the 1930s. A group of young intellectuals and revolutionaries, led by the brilliant young Indranath, is fighting for independence from the colonial system. Ela, the group's emancipated muse and teacher is troubled by her romantic love for the poet Attindra who - like her - doubts the cruelty of revolutionary acts sanctioned by Indranath's ideals.
Kumar Shahani draws on Indian visual arts, music and dance, to explore relationships between literature and politics, love and revolution, during this important period of cultural synthesis and change in modern India. The film continues his attempts in creating a cinema in the tradition of the Indian epic following the footsteps of Ritwik Ghatak, his teacher
Based on Rabindranath Tagore's last novel, Char Adhyay is set in the Bengali Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s. A group of young intellectuals gets embroiled in the struggle for Indian independence, sometimes at the expense of their personal lives. The film, in which many of the cast members are not professional actors, raises questions about nationalism.
