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Parineeta - Ashok Kumar|
1953
Parineeta - Ashok Kumar
1953 | 106 min
Set in the beautiful Kolkata of the sixties, Parineeta follows the love-story of the talented but emotionally high-strung Shekhar and Lalita an orphan with a heart of gold. Shekhar s ambitious and conniving father, Navin Rai is against their match as Lalita has no money and has been raised by a middle-class family. Matters come to a head when Lalita decides to take the young and enterprising businessman, Girish s help to save the fortunes of her adoptive family. But this act of selflessness leads to a crack in her relationship with Shekhar. Based on Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay s 1914 novella by the same name, Parineeta portrays Bengali culture and the ethos of a bygone era with great perfection.
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Subtitles:EnglishHello Sundari|
2001
Majhli Didi|
1967
Majhli Didi
1967 | 122 min
Kishen a small village boy, finds himself with his stepsister Kadambini after his widowed mother's death. Kadambini takes her brother's responsibility with the intention of possessing his small village properties. Her husband, Nobin, accepts this arrangement and turns a blind eye to the ill-treatment that Kishen suffers. Kishen now has to stand up for his equal place amongst his family.
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Subtitles:English, ArabicSanjh Aur Savera|
1964
Sanjh Aur Savera
1964 | 134 min
Dr. Shankar Chaudhry is a wealthy doctor residing in Bombay with his younger sister, Manju and his widowed mother, Rukmini. He agrees to an arranged marriage with advocate Madhusudan's daughter, Maya, a girl neither he nor his mother have ever met. While their marriage was pretty normal, things took an unexpected turn when Maya gets pregnant and leaves with Prakash.
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Subtitles:English, ArabicDushmun|
1972
Dushmun
1972 | 166 min
Surjit Singh, an alcoholic truck driver ends up taking Ram Din's life in a truck accident. Instead of choosing to flee the scene he decides to face the consequences and gets arrested. The judge in his court case, however, deems him fit to go back to Ram Din's village and continue Ram Din's farming to support his family, thereby making him realise the gravity of his mistake.
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