Famine is a story of terrible suffering of millions of people going though extreme poverty and one such example is the 1943 famine of Bengal. Instead of searching for it why not the Director focused on why it had happened in the first place as shown in an implicit yet powerful way by Shri Satayjit Roy in Asanai Sanket. This is a very sensitive topic specially 1943 famine and when you lead a comfortable life and having two square meals a day and specially when you are a Bengali , you do not make fun of it by searching for it, rather do something so that it can be avoided in future. It seems to me the director with his usual desire to be awarded by West he has to bring something novel from the East and terribly he chose famine for this and definitely he was successful by winning the Silver Bear award from Berlin.
Review of In Search of Famine
