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Original Name: Bhuvan Shome
English Name: Mr. Shome
Year: 1969
Run Time: 92’
Language: Hindi
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Black & White
Country: India
Director: Mrinal Sen
Producer: Mrinal Sen
Cast: Utpal Dutt, Suhasini Mulay, Rochak Pundit
Screenplay: Mrinal Sen
Cinematographer: K.K. Mahajan
Editor: Rajendra Naik, Gangadhar Naskar, Dinkar Shetye
Sound Designer: Loken Bose, Syamsunder Ghose, Deva Prasad Dutta
Music Composer: Vijay Raghav Rao
Production Designer: Sadhu Meherv
Production Company: Mrinal Sen Productions
Sen is one of India's most politically active filmmakers. In the mid-1940s he joined the Indian People's Theatre Association and began to read about and study film. In 1956 Sen made his debut with Raat Bhore (1956). Influenced by Italian neorealism and the work of fellow countryman Satyajit Ray, Sen used location shooting and non-professional casts in his early films. By the 1970s he was making wider use of symbolism and allegory. Sen's films have won numerous international awards including prizes at Cannes, Berlin, Venice, and many other festivals.
Bhuvan Shome is a lonely widower, a proud old man and a disciplinarian. Looking back on the trodden path, strewn with staunch determination and drab attitudes, Bhuvan Shome, a thoroughly unenchanted man, takes a day off and walks into another world—a new world consisting of simple uninitiated village folk. There he rides a bullock cart, encounters a buffalo and finally a village belle. Off to duck shooting amidst the sand dunes, suddenly everything lights up. A day’s exposure to a host of alien situations deepens his sense of loneliness. He realises that he has no escape from the world which he has built for himself all these years.
