Ullas is a Bengali social drama film directed by Ishwar Chakraborty and produced by Sankar Sarkar. This film was based on three short stories of Mahasweta Devi namely Daur, Mahadu Ekti Rupkatha and Anno Aranya. This movie was released on 29 June 2012 under the banner of R.N.R. Enterprise. Writer Mahasweta Devi acted in the film in the role of Basuli goddess.
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Plot
Kanna, a young tribal boy appears for the police constable examination in summer and drops dead at the examination venue. Suddenly he comes alive on his journey to the morgue and starts running. The second story revolves around the struggle of Mahadu, a Korku tribe boy of Maharashtra. He grows to enormous size up to the mark, hunger and energy and destroys all the buildings around Mumbai that were built on the forest land, which is his native place. Anna is the protagonist of the third story. She is a girl of Lodha tribe of Medinipur, West Bengal. A rich wood merchant's son sexually exploits her and she becomes pregnant. Anna takes her revenges.
Cast
Soumitra Chatterjee as Dr. Mathai
Tapas Paul as Annada Goldar
Satabdi Roy as Sumitra
Shankar Chakraborty as Mr.Kambli
Biplab Chatterjee as Dikpal
Mahasweta Devi as Basuli Goddess
Sadhana Hazra as Anna
Dolly Basu as Dipkal's wife
Amit Das as Kanna
Shanta Sarkar
Sandhya Sarkar