In Calcutta, a young man loses a job opportunity because he cannot manage to obtain a suit to wear for the interview: with this simple parable that is also a daily truth, Mrinal Sen makes a pointed and ironic attack on the vestiges of colonialism that live on in India in the seventies. Interview is the first of Sen's "Calcutta Trilogy" (with Calcutta '71 and Padatik/The Guerrilla Fighter), three of his most overtly political films both in their subject and structure. Drawing variously on Brecht, neorealism and cinéma verité, Interview was for Sen "a highly stimulating exercise and an attempt at liberating cinema from the confines of narrative structure and logic." But when our hapless hero, a non-professional actor named Ranjit Mullick, turns to the camera and talks of playing this part which closely resembles his own life, and ends by stoning a department store dummy with an English smirk and an English suit, Interview takes on a logic all its own.