Char Adhyay

Jan 1, 1997

1h 50m

★ 5.7

Overview

Set in the Bengali Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s. A group of young intellectuals get embroiled in the struggle for Indian independence, sometimes at the expense of their personal lives.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

National Film Development Corporation of India

Doordarshan

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Cast

Ela

Nandini Ghosal

Atindra

Sumanto Chattopadhyay

Indranath

Kaushik Gopal

Shiboprosad Mukherjee

Rajat Kapoor

Shruti Yusufi

Ramchandra Parihar

Jaya Bachchan

Self (archive footage)

Mahatma Gandhi

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