Film

Runaway

7.519582h 4mDrama

Director: Ritwik Ghatak
Year: 1958

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.

Top cast

Param Bhattaraka Lahiri

Kanchan

Kali Bannerjee

Haridas

Padmadevi

Mother

Keshto Mukherjee

Ishu Bhelkiwala

Satindra Bhattacharya

Mini's father

Niti Pandit

Mini's mother

Gyanesh Mukhopadhyay

Father

Nripati Chatterjee

Feriwala

Jahar Roy

Non-Bengali man

Shriman Deepak

Chandan

Bechu Singha

Noni Ganguly

Bijon Bhattacharya

Shailen Ghosh

Nanda

Krishna Jaya

Mini

Satu Majumdar

Coal thief

Gupi Banerjee

Mani Srimani

Directed by

Ritwik Ghatak

Written by

Ritwik Ghatak

Produced by

Promod Lahiri