The Last of the Crew
There is a story from the 1980s’ filming of a political thriller set in Calcutta, directed by one of Bengali art cinema’s rising stars. This director, having seen all sorts of international cinema, from Costa-Gavras to Solanas, decided he needed his protagonist to make a call from a phone booth. Calcutta was never replete with phone booths but finally one was found in Howrah station. As the
