Dakhal

The Occupation) is a 1981 Indian Bengali film directed by Gautam Ghose, with Mamata Shankar, Robin Sen Gupta, Sunil Mukherjee and Sujal Roy Chowdhury in lead roles.

The film is about a woman belonging to a nomadic tribe from Andhra Pradesh, known as crow hunters, who elopes and moves to south Bengal and makes a living by occult practices.

It deals with the issue of exploitation of tribal people by a deceitful landlord.

[3][4] This the first Bengali-language feature film by Ghosh, who had previously made documentaries and Maa Bhoomi in Telugu.

[5][6] At the 11th International Human Rights Film Festival in Paris it won the Grand Jury Prize.