An Enemy of the People

An Enemy of the People

99 mins | Drama | Jan. 19, 1990

Ashoke Gupta is an idealistic doctor working in a town near Calcutta. He discovers that the water at a popular temple is the source of an outbreak of typhoid and hepatitis. In order to save lives, he risks his career to try and call attention to this polluted water source, while a local group of building contractors attempt to discredit him in various ways.

An Enemy of the People

99 mins | Drama | Jan. 19, 1990

An Enemy of the People
Ashoke Gupta is an idealistic doctor working in a town near Calcutta. He discovers that the water at a popular temple is the source of an outbreak of typhoid and hepatitis. In order to save lives, he risks his career to try and call attention to this polluted water source, while a local group of building contractors attempt to discredit him in various ways.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers National Film Development Corporation of India
Original title Ganashatru
Directors Subrata Lahiri, Ramen Chatterjee, Ramesh Sen, Satyajit Ray
Writers Henrik Ibsen, Satyajit Ray

Cast

Soumitra Chatterjee

as Dr. Ashok Gupta

Dhritiman Chatterjee

as Nishith Gupta

Dipankar Dey

as Haridas Bagchi

Ruma Guha Thakurta

as Maya Gupta

Mamata Shankar

as Indrani Gupta

Subhendu Chatterjee

as Biresh Guha (as Subhendu Chattopadhyay)

Bhishma Guhathakurta

as Ranen Haldar

Satya Banerjee

as Landlord (as Satya Bandyopadhyay)

Rajaram Yagnik

as Mr. Bhargav

Prabhat Mukhopadhyay

as (as Prabhat Mukherjee)

Pramod Ranjan Prasad

as (as Pramodranjan Prasad)