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Runaway
INDIA · 1958

Runaway

Ritwik Ghatak
childhood innocence domestic abuse urban migration disillusionment father-son conflict
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Synopsis

Kanchan, all of eight years old, is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, until he reaches there.

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