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Set in 1950s Calcutta against the partition of India, the plot follows two rival factions born out of the divided leadership of the radical IPTA theater movement. Amidst their intense creative differences, a romance develops between two uprooted refugees, Bhrigu and Anusuya.
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Audiences 72GoodWatch 68
IMDb7.2
Running time
2 h 4 min
A typical length for dramas, +15 min on the typical 109
typical 109124Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 97 countries, rent or buy in 8 more
+87Released
1961
March 30, 1961
65 years ago
Genres
DramaMusicLanguage
Bangla
Original language
Made in
India
and 4 moreDirecting · 1
- Ritwik Ghatak Director, Screenplay, Producer
Production · 3
- Ajit Lahiri Producer
- Shailen Ghosh Production Manager
- Patito Mondal Production Manager
Camera · 1
- Dilip Ranjan Mukhopadhyay Director of Photography
Editing · 2
- Ramesh Joshi Editor
- Govinda Chatterjee Editorial Production Assistant
Sound · 2
- Jyotirindra Moitra Original Music Composer
- Sujit Sarkar Sound Recordist
Art · 5
- Chhedilal Sharma Art Department Assistant
- Barju Mohanty Art Department Assistant
- Subodh Das Set Decoration
- Ravi Chatterjee Art Direction
- Suresh Chandra Chandra Art Department Assistant
Costume & Make-Up · 2
- Basir Ahmed Makeup Artist
- Manotosh Roy Makeup Artist
Other crew · 5
- Punu Sen Second Unit
- Nitai Basu Title Graphics
- Mrinal Guhathakurta Sound Recordist
- Debesh Ghosh Sound Recordist
- Prabhas Bhattacharya Lighting Camera
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