The film follows Mrinal Sen in his early days around the time of India’s independence, where he is a struggling idealist with an all-consuming hunger for cinema but unable to feed himself or his young wife, to 1950s Calcutta, where (alongside Satyajit Ray) he helped start the Indian New Wave cinema movement.
| Release Date | August 15, 2024 | |
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| Status | Released | |
| Original Title | পদাতিক | |
| Runtime | 2h 3min | |
| Budget | — | |
| Revenue | — | |
| Language | Bengali, Hindi | |
| Original Language | Bangla | |
| Production Countries | India | |
| Production Companies | Friends CommunicationBig Screen Productions House | |