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.
鸭先知 最好，既点题还能寓教于乐，其他三个单元过于煽情了。
挫折与悲伤
《鸭先知》确实可以，70末全民统一的低饱和灰蓝色加中远景调度有点Tati的意思，可惜结尾收得比较垮，一升格就开始露怯。剩下仨就完全没必要比了……
徐峥的片段值得四星鼓励，沈腾的片段三星吧后面挺感动的。
后三个故事看得还是有点眼眶湿润的。沈腾这个机器人爸爸还把我看哭了。其实“我和我的”系列都有很不错的地方。
除了鸭先知都拉胯，而且居然没有一个普普通通绝大多数人的父亲，工农家庭那么多拍一个不好吗。另外强行煽情、抬高过多。1强行马战，2强调母亲多于父亲，3挺好的无瑕疵，4能穿越却不防水
按理说只看了吴京的部分不能代表全部作品，但是谁让他放在第一part呢，我看完第一part就没有看完的欲望了
新世界的开始
《诗》最好看，又浪漫又细腻。后两个不太有意思。
都挺好，各有各的好，更喜欢诗吧，鸭先知那个月也不错，开篇也可以，最后那个也合适，
不知道怎么那么低的分，第一个乘风就给我哭晕了，牺牲一个乘风，保护了那么多乘风，舍小家为大家的境界太高尚。诗也给我弄破防了，孩子我多想告诉你这世上美好的一切。鸭先知小范闲一如既往的出彩，敢于创新的精神值得点赞，爱情神话好多演员都来了，原汁原味的老上海。沈腾马丽还是很好笑，告别是为了更好的遇见。王菲的如愿直接升华了，这盛世如你所愿
诗和鸭先知出彩，乘风一般，少年行这设定，都能穿越啦，机器人还不能防水？？？
徐峥这段有点意思啊，不但采用了韦斯安德森式美学，甚至还有点雅克塔蒂的味道。
个人喜爱度：鸭先知-诗-乘风-少年行
补卡 吴京沈腾就好好做演员吧 章子怡太惊喜了！阿菲的如愿真的好听
徐峥这段有点意思啊，不但采用了韦斯安德森式美学，甚至还有点雅克塔蒂的味道。
想创造/
“乘风破浪会有时”
我和我的系列第三部，前面的是祖国和家乡，这次是父辈，从大到小，从浴血奋战到和平年代，这个系列应该也是终结篇了。评分不高，水平参差不齐，这部也是四个故事，最好的应该是章子怡的诗，航天人的浪漫以及其中的艰难与奋斗。然后是吴京的乘风，我觉得这个故事可以拍一部长篇，还有很多东西可以讲的。徐峥的故事我觉得一般，可能是我没有经历过那个变革中的时代吧。沈腾的故事放在结尾正好，毕竟我们已经是在先辈用牺牲换来的和平年代里了，可惜煽情有点过猛，不像开心麻花。
吴京把拼盘大电影当成认真的叙事片在拍，这也是今年好多人不参加的缘故吧，怕被比的太惨。章子怡很努力很认真，但是矫情的东西无法理解。另外两个就每年都很稳定的正常水平吧。
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