Anjangarh

Sep 24, 1948

★ 0.0

Overview

When a local mining company dares to provide its workers a fair wage for a fair day's work, and lets its workers unionize, the kingdom's villainous potentate is less than pleased. After considerable pressure, the company agrees to blame unrest in the region on a blameless worker collective.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

New Theatres Limited

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Cast

Tulsi Chakraborty

Parul Kar

Chhabi Roy

Bipin Gupta

Purnendu Mukherjee

Jahar Roy

Sunil Das Gupta

Sunanda Devi

Amita Bose

Raja Gangopadhyay

Phalguni Ray

Manorama Devi

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