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Bitter Morsel (1979)

This somber drama follows the troubles of a rural family who moves to the big city to have a better life. Although the family is poor, they provide lodging for an old beggar while the unemployed husband searches for work. The youngest girl steals birdseed from a parrot, while the eldest girl is close to trading sex for food. The wife believes the beggar is hiding something and finds a bag of rice in his room. The beggar dies, and the wife cooks the rice for her family. Although she has provided for her family, her feelings of guilt about the old man prevent her from keeping her food down.

Release: 1979-06-01
Runtime: 95 min
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Monidipa Roy
Sunil Mukherjee
Sunil Mukherjee
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Manojit Lahiri
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Jayita Sarkar
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Bhaswati Dasgupta
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Jayati Ghosh
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Shyamal Sengupta
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Bani Ganguly
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Neehar Roy
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Gopa Sengupta
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Pradeep Sen
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Jayanta Bhattacharya
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Goutam Gupta
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Siddhartha Dutta
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Tapati Palit
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Dulal Roy
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Nirmal Sarkar
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Tapan Roy Chowdhury