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
as Naurangia
शबाना आज़मी
as Rama
Utpal Dutt
as Bhola Singh
Om Puri
as Ramnaresh
Mohan Agashe
as Hari Singh
Anil Chatterjee
as Schoolmaster
Ruma Guha Thakurta
as
Sunil Mukherjee
as Chamku
Kamu Mukherjee
as Headman
Masood Akhtar
as
Usha Ganguly
as
Kalyan Chatterjee
as
