Tapan Sinha

Tapan Sinha

Tapan Sinha (2 October 1924 – 15 January 2009) was one of the most prominent Indian film directors of his time who made more than 40 feature films in Bengali, Hindi and Oriya in a career spanning nearly half a century. A contemporary of West Bengal's cinema icons - Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen - Sinha was an equally powerful storyteller who, like his favourite novelist, Charles Dickens, won a large and appreciative audience by dealing with the problems that confront ordinary people. Born in Kolkata, Sinha was the fifth child of Tridibesh and Pramila Sinha. He attended schools in Bhagalpur and Bankura. As a student at Patna University, Bihar, Sinha responded sympathetically to Mahatma Gandhi's Quit Indiamovement, launched against the British in 1942. However, when he moved to Kolkata University, where he was studying for an MSc in physics, he fell under the spell of British and American film-makers, particularly John Ford, Billy Wilder, Frank Capra and Carol Reed. He later claimed that it was Jack Conway's 1935 version of Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities that motivated him to become a film-maker. After gaining his master's in 1946, Sinha joined the New Theatres studios, Kolkata, as a trainee sound engineer. Two years later, he moved to the Kolkata Movietone studio and, in 1950, he received an invitation to the London film festival and an opportunity to work at Pinewood studios, near London, where he took a job in the director Charles Crichton's unit as a sound engineer. While in London, he was exposed to the works of Italian directors Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini. On returning to India, Sinha made his first film, Ankush (The Goad, 1954), which featured an elephant belonging to a zamindar (tax collector) as the central character. His final film was released in 2001. Sinha, whom many critics regarded as India's David Lean, was honoured at international festivals in Berlin, Venice, London, Moscow and San Francisco and had received the Dadasaheb Phalke award, the highest cinema honour from the Indian government in 2008.

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Tapan Sinha Movies

  • 1994
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    Filmmaker for freedom

    Filmmaker for freedom

    1 1994 HD

    A Documentary on Tapan Sinha

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  • 2001
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    Daughters of This Century

    Daughters of This Century

    1 2001 HD

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  • 1965
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    Atithi

    Atithi

    1 1965 HD

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  • 2001
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    Daughters of This Century

    Daughters of This Century

    1 2001 HD

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  • 2000
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    The Magic Pearl

    The Magic Pearl

    6 2000 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Market Place

    The Market Place

    5 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Market Place

    The Market Place

    5 1967 HD

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  • 1972
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    Bawarchi

    Bawarchi

    6.8 1972 HD

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  • 1974
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    Sagina

    Sagina

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1974
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    Sagina

    Sagina

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1972
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    Zindagi Zindagi

    Zindagi Zindagi

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1964
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    A Burnt House

    A Burnt House

    1 1964 HD

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  • 2009
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    Teen Murti

    Teen Murti

    1 2009 HD

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  • 2009
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    Teen Murti

    Teen Murti

    1 2009 HD

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  • 2009
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    Teen Murti

    Teen Murti

    1 2009 HD

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  • 2009
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    Teen Murti

    Teen Murti

    1 2009 HD

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  • 1986
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    Terror

    Terror

    1 1986 HD

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  • 1986
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    Terror

    Terror

    1 1986 HD

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  • 1986
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    Terror

    Terror

    1 1986 HD

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  • 1986
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    Terror

    Terror

    1 1986 HD

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  • 1990
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    Death of a Doctor

    Death of a Doctor

    5.5 1990 HD

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  • 1957
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    Kabuliwala

    Kabuliwala

    5.5 1957 HD

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  • 1990
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    Death of a Doctor

    Death of a Doctor

    5.5 1990 HD

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  • 1963
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    The Desolate Beach

    The Desolate Beach

    5 1963 HD

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  • 1958
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    Iron Door

    Iron Door

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1960
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    Hungry Stones

    Hungry Stones

    6 1960 HD

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  • 1965
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    Atithi

    Atithi

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Market Place

    The Market Place

    5 1967 HD

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  • 1973
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    Crossing the Darkness

    Crossing the Darkness

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1984
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    Man and Woman

    Man and Woman

    9 1984 HD

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  • 1971
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    Sagina Mahato

    Sagina Mahato

    7 1971 HD

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  • 1968
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    Apanjan

    Apanjan

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1961
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    The Prisoner of Jhind

    The Prisoner of Jhind

    9 1961 HD

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  • 1955
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    Upahar

    Upahar

    1 1955 HD

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  • 1958
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    Kalamati

    Kalamati

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1988
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    Today's Robin Hood

    Today's Robin Hood

    7.5 1988 HD

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  • 1988
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    Today's Robin Hood

    Today's Robin Hood

    7.5 1988 HD

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  • 1962
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    Aamar Desh

    Aamar Desh

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1988
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    Today's Robin Hood

    Today's Robin Hood

    7.5 1988 HD

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  • 1988
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    Today's Robin Hood

    Today's Robin Hood

    7.5 1988 HD

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  • 1989
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    Didi

    Didi

    1 1989 HD

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  • 1962
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    Hansuli Banker Upakatha

    Hansuli Banker Upakatha

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1954
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    Ankush

    Ankush

    1 1954 HD

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  • 1977
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    The White Elephant

    The White Elephant

    6 1977 HD

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  • 1966
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    Galpo Holeo Satti

    Galpo Holeo Satti

    7.5 1966 HD

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  • 1964
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    A Burnt House

    A Burnt House

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1994
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    Wheel Chair

    Wheel Chair

    7 1994 HD

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  • 1998
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    Strange Tale of a Strange Village

    Strange Tale of a Strange Village

    7.5 1998 HD

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  • 1960
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    Hungry Stones

    Hungry Stones

    6 1960 HD

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  • 1966
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    Galpo Holeo Satti

    Galpo Holeo Satti

    7.5 1966 HD

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  • 1966
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    Galpo Holeo Satti

    Galpo Holeo Satti

    7.5 1966 HD

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  • 1966
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    Galpo Holeo Satti

    Galpo Holeo Satti

    7.5 1966 HD

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  • 1963
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    The Desolate Beach

    The Desolate Beach

    5 1963 HD

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  • 1963
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    The Desolate Beach

    The Desolate Beach

    5 1963 HD

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  • 1980
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    The Garden of Bancharam

    The Garden of Bancharam

    6 1980 HD

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  • 1980
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    The Garden of Bancharam

    The Garden of Bancharam

    6 1980 HD

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  • 1980
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    The Garden of Bancharam

    The Garden of Bancharam

    6 1980 HD

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  • 1985
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    Baidurya Rahasya

    Baidurya Rahasya

    1 1985 HD

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  • 1976
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    Harmonium

    Harmonium

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1985
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    Baidurya Rahasya

    Baidurya Rahasya

    1 1985 HD

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  • 1976
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    Harmonium

    Harmonium

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1985
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    Baidurya Rahasya

    Baidurya Rahasya

    1 1985 HD

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  • 1954
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    Ankush

    Ankush

    1 1954 HD

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  • 1956
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    Tonsil

    Tonsil

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1964
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    Arohi

    Arohi

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1956
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    Tonsil

    Tonsil

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1951
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    Datta

    Datta

    1 1951 HD

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  • 1962
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    Hansuli Banker Upakatha

    Hansuli Banker Upakatha

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1971
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    Ekhonee

    Ekhonee

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    Ekhonee

    Ekhonee

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    Ekhonee

    Ekhonee

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1977
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    Ek Je Chhilo Desh

    Ek Je Chhilo Desh

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1965
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    Atithi

    Atithi

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1968
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    Apanjan

    Apanjan

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1979
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    Sabuj Dwiper Raja

    Sabuj Dwiper Raja

    8 1979 HD

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  • 1979
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    Sabuj Dwiper Raja

    Sabuj Dwiper Raja

    8 1979 HD

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  • 1986
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    Terror

    Terror

    1 1986 HD

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  • 1985
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    Baidurya Rahasya

    Baidurya Rahasya

    1 1985 HD

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  • 1991
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    Disappearance

    Disappearance

    1 1991 HD

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  • 1959
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    Khaniker Atithi

    Khaniker Atithi

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1971
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    Ekhonee

    Ekhonee

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1976
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    Harmonium

    Harmonium

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1976
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    Harmonium

    Harmonium

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1964
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    Arohi

    Arohi

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1977
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    Ek Je Chhilo Desh

    Ek Je Chhilo Desh

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1977
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    Ek Je Chhilo Desh

    Ek Je Chhilo Desh

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1977
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    Ek Je Chhilo Desh

    Ek Je Chhilo Desh

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1982
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    The Law and a Lady

    The Law and a Lady

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1962
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    Aamar Desh

    Aamar Desh

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1951
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    Barjatri

    Barjatri

    1 1951 HD

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  • 1979
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    Sabuj Dwiper Raja

    Sabuj Dwiper Raja

    8 1979 HD

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  • 1949
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    Paribartan

    Paribartan

    1 1949 HD

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