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Daughters of This Century

Daughters of This Century

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Daughters of This Century

2001

3h 0m

9.0(1 votes)

Drama

Overview

This film is based on five shot stories of Rabindranath Tagore's Jibito O Mrito, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's Abhagir Swarga, Gour Kishore Ghosh's Aei Daha, Prafulla Roy's Satgharia and Dibyendu Palit's Kaanch.

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10 featured cast members

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Shabana Azmi

Shabana Azmi

Kadambini

Jaya Bachchan

Jaya Bachchan

Abhagi

Arjun Chakraborty

Arjun Chakraborty

Son in law

Nandita Das

Nandita Das

Charu

Sulabha Deshpande

Sulabha Deshpande

Hemlata

Jeet

Jeet

Passer by

Prem Prakash Modi

Deepa Sahi

Deepa Sahi

Champia

Kaushik Sen

Kaushik Sen

Colleague

Debashree Roy

Debashree Roy

Creative team

Directed by: Tapan Sinha
Written by: Prafulla Roy
Saratchandra Chatterjee

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