Siddartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee) is forced to discontinue his medical studies due to unexpected and brutal death of his father. He has to now find a job in stead. In one job interview, he is asked to name the most significant world event in the last ten years. His reply is 'the plain human courage shown by the people of Vietnam', instead of the expected - man landing on moon. The interviewer asks is he is a communist. Needles to say that he does not get the job.
He reaches a coffee shop where he is offered to work for the communist party. When he does not show any interest the party leader tells him about an opening for a medical representative. To escape from the heat and have a snooze, he goes in to a cinema. As a government propaganda newsreel is being shown before the feature, a bomb explodes in the cinema hall. In the stampede that follows, Siddartha, breaks his watch. He goes to a watchmaker but he cannot afford the repairs.
Waiting to cross the road, he notices a sexy girl. He drifts back to his days as a medical student in a flashback. The professor is explaining anatomy of female breast. Many flashbacks and dreams occur to Siddartha through the film.
On his way to hostel, he has an encounter with some hippies. Along with an ex-classmate, he goes out to see a porn film but to their disappointment, the film turns out to be not-so-pornographic.
In such constant wandering in a Calcutta, disintegrated relationships with his sister and a Naxalite (militant communist) brother, his friendship with Keya is only thing that keeps him sane.
Keya is a simple girl. They enjoy each other's company but they cannot make any commitment to each other due to the circumstances.
After yet another attempt at a job interview, Siddartha leaves the big city to take a modest job of a salesman in a far off small town. He writes to Keya that he still cherishes their relationship. And that he has heard that bird call again but this time it is for real, and not his mind. After completing the letter, he comes out to the balcony of his modest room. The bird calls again. He also hears the sombre chants of a funeral procession. As he turns to the camera, the picture is frozen.
This is the first film of the Calcutta Trilogy. The other two were and Seemabaddha (Company Limited, 1971) and Jana Aranya (The Middle Man, 1975). All the three films study the effect the big city of Calcutta has on the educated youth and the price it extracts from them.
The seventies were a difficult period for India and West Bengal. The Corruption was rampant; the Naxalite movement had created havoc in Calcutta. In fact, they had turned parts of Calcutta into 'liberated zones'. By the time the Naxalite movement died down, in 1975, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (then, Prime Minister of India) suppressed the fundamental rights and declared "Emergency" for her own political survival. Her son, Sanjay Gandhi became a dictator of sorts without any official designation. The opposition leaders were thrown into prisons.
About his social responsibilities as a filmmaker, in an interview with Cineaste magazine, Ray commented, "You can see my attitude in The Adversary where you have two brothers. The younger brother is a Naxalite. There is no doubt that the elder brother admires the younger brother for his bravery and convictions. The film is not ambiguous about that. As a filmmaker, however, I was more interested in the elder brother because he is the vacillating character. As a psychological entity, as a human being with doubts, he is a more interesting character to me. The younger brother has already identified himself with a cause. That makes him part of a total attitude and makes him unimportant. The Naxalite movement takes over. He, as a person, becomes insignificant."
In a letter to Seton in 1970, Ray wrote that Pratidwandi was the most provocative film he had made till then. The film is said to have evoked extreme reactions. "People either loved the film or hated it", Dhritiman Chatterjee told Andrew Robinson, Ray's biographer.
就如片名一样，美国人多么热爱体育。大扎老是锁紧眉头什么鬼。
堪称艺术美学。
21年最佳体育电影 节奏流畅 金句频出
盲老汉的听声辨位大战米国罪犯，扣眼残酷！犯罪集团中还有人性尚存的人，以及一只凶残叛徒狗！八岁小女孩拿刀血砍，不慌不乱太神奇了，经历如此种种不知长大后又该如何？编剧和导演，就尽扯蛋吧！可能还有第三部，更神奇了！
第三幕的动作设计和场景光影氛围都在线，确实还比较精彩。但是前面的情节其实脱离“男主是个战斗力强的瞎子”也能成立。所欲与其这样倒不如把前面的动作场景也设计得再精致一点。
1星，基本快进看完。作为一部没啥意义的爽片，看完之后也没觉得很爽，非常无趣。
盲老头战斗力依旧开挂，单枪三杀人头就nm离谱，小女孩身世解开但亲生的也不是什么好鸟，跟班手下竟然还有圣母人设。。。
比第一部血腥，但是趣味变平庸了。
7.5，相比第一部差太多，没有第一部那种让人窒息的感觉，瞎老头也变成抗日神剧主角，无所不能，不知道还以为是能红外定位，响尾蛇侠；第一部是因为惊险屏住呼吸，第二部只能是因为血腥了，往隔山有眼这类电影方向发展了，现在年纪大了看不得这种
很喜欢这电影
当你最失落的时候，有人说你可以的，你ready的，多重要啊 YF
很传统的运动离职电影，可能没那么多的波折，但是也曾经为了生活跌入谷底，为了生计成了超市的理货员。如果不是还热爱着橄榄球，如果不是加入的支持，如果不是有慧眼识珠的教练，传奇就不会发生
不吓人 不惊悚
还是第一部更好看 这一部除了水中秒杀那一幕其他都没啥亮点有点落入反杀俗套还并没有体现出优势
节奏这么这么温吞吞，故事走向又这么迷惑，实在有点浪费时间。
第一部是来偷钱，第二部是来抢人，老兵实惨！
本来这么一个励志的传奇故事，拍得这么蜻蜓点水，明明是against all odds的传奇，结果给硬生生拍成了个天上掉馅饼的琐碎故事
狗尾续貂，养过狗的都知道狗不是这个吊毛样。
是我对十来岁小女孩期待过高了。还以为会老少配合大杀特杀杀得片甲不留。狗子好好
复仇剧，少了第一部地下室那种kinky的成分，也少了密室的紧迫感，老头还是很猛，但这个小姑娘有点讨人嫌
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