CALCUTTA 71 Noted director Mrinal Sen’s CALCUTTA 71 was released in 1972. A collection of four stories representing the Naxal Movement in Bengal and the effects of the social, political, and financial crisis of the 1970s that eventually led to a lack of food and starvation in a chaotic, classified society. All four stories in the film address the unsafe situation in society. A family is sent to a safe shelter in the middle of the night as the family lives in a slum area and is part of the lower class of society.