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Chorus

6.6(5)19741h 52m0

A small company advertises for 100 vacancies and 30,000 apply. The applicants are all from the ranks of the poor and there is a virtual riot. Everyone around is seeking for opportunities. Among them are the applicants who desperately need the job, the photographer who is busy seeking a scoop, the village moneylender who is busy exploiting the poor, the ineffective police, the employers who are advertising posts even while a six month old strike has nearly caused the workmen to become destitute. It is a story of society captured in a tiny framework of a small business. Ultimately, the workmen, the unemployed and the farmers all get to gether to protest against this exploitation.

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Status
Released
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Language
Hindi

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Where to watch

Availability for India. Provided by JustWatch through the TMDB API.

Stream

Videos

Release dates

  • IndiaIN

    • Theatrical4 Jan 1974
  • GermanyDE

    • Premiere25th Berlin International Film Festival1 Jul 1975
  • RussiaSU

    • Premiere9th Moscow International Film Festival14 Jul 1975

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Chorus was released on 4 January 1974.

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    robot2xl

    12/19/2012

    This is a typical early Mrinal Sen film. Bold, brash and hammering home his political philosophy. The difference is in the treatment and the screenplay. This film uses the idiom of the absurd theatre to make its point - typical of Mohit Chattopadhyay's plays . Thus we have Robi Ghosh, in many a disguise, acting as the "Sutradhar" and delivering the political message. The film juxtaposes this stylisation and caricatur…

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