Sagina

The film (the Hindi version of Sagina Mahato, 1970) is based on a real episode of the labor struggle on tea plantations in the Himalayas in Northeast India during 1942-1943 but features fictional characters. The protagonist, Sagina, is an honest and spirited yet politically inexperienced union leader who organizes the workers' fight at a factory in Siliguri. However, he finds himself in a difficult position: while battling the employer, he accepts a post in the colonial administration in Calcutta, and in the meantime, the union is crushed...