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.
Naseeruddin Shah
Shabana Azmi
Utpal Dutt
Om Puri
Mohan Agashe
Anil Chatterjee
Ruma Guha Thakurta
Sunil Mukherjee
Kamu Mukherjee
Masood Akhtar
Usha Ganguly
Kalyan Chatterjee
Bimal Deb
Bhopal Reddy
Sujal Roy Chowdhury
Reba Roy Chowdhury
Nandu Chatterjee
Sunil Kumar Biswas
Niranjan Roy
Nirmal Mitra
Kalipada Chakraborty
S. P. Mukherjee
Prabir Ganguly
Paritosh Roy
Dipti Bhatt
Subhir Mukherjee
Rupa Ganguly
Shyamal Ghoshal
Atmanan Singh