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In August 1947, the British passed a bill regarding the partition of Bengal. Delving into the grim history of the Partition, Mukherjee's movie Rajkahini is woven around a border between the two nations that runs through a brothel housing... See more »

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Begum Jaan
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Kawmola (as Lily Chakraborty)
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Golaap
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Rubina
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Juthika
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Lata
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Duli
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Koli
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Fatima a. k. a. Shabnam
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Bnuchki
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Banno
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Master
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Sujan
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Prophullo Mohan Sen
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Mohammad Illias (as Koushik Sen)
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Shoshikanto Sarkar
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Salim
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Akhtar
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Nawaab (as Rajatava Dutta)
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Kabir (as Jisshu U. Sengupta)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dicky Banerjee ...
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Kallol Banerjee ...
Golaap's Customer 1
Somraj Banerjee ...
Prophullo's Servant
Satyam Bhattacharya ...
Golaap's Rapists in Riot
Raja Biswas ...
Sir Cyril Radcliffe
Rajib Biswas ...
Abdur Rab Nishtar
Deba Bose ...
Duli's Customer
Rahul Dev Bose ...
Doctor's Assistant
Steve Burroughs ...
Lord Ismay
Debaprasad Chatterjee ...
Justice C. C. Biswas
Ivy Chatterjee ...
Muslim Girl in Riot
Rudra Chatterjee ...
Sarangi Player
Atanu Roy Choudhury ...
Lata's Customer
Uday Choudhury ...
Muslim League Party Leader
Amit Das ...
Acharya Kripalani
Unmesh Das ...
Golaap's Rapists in Riot
Pronoy Dasgupta ...
Golaap's Customer 2
Jayanta Dey ...
Justice Abu Saleh Mohammad
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Sardar Vallabhai Patel (as Ashok Dhanuka)
Jeet Dutta ...
Golaap's Rapists in Riot
Uttam Dutta ...
Tabalchi
Patrick Eyre ...
Lord Mountbatten
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Muslim League Lawyer
Taaniya Ganguly ...
Queen
Anindya Ghosh ...
Liaqat Ali Khan (as Anindyo Ghosh)
Gourav Ghosh ...
Illias' Assistant
Ranjit Ranjan Gun ...
Justice S. A. Rahman (as Ranjit Ranjan Goon)
Arjo Gupta ...
Fatima's Father
Dyuti Gupta ...
Young Begum Jaan
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Jawaharlal Nehru
Bidesh Hazra ...
Rubina's Customer
Sayantan Hazra ...
Golaap's Rapist in Horse Carriage
Mudassar Hossain ...
Golaap's Rapists in Riot
Deepro Majumdar ...
Golaap's Rapist in Horse Carriage
Srikanta Manna ...
Manna Doctor
Milo ...
Bhalu
Himadri Mukherjee ...
Bearer
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Congress Lawyer
Asim Kumar Mukhopadhyay ...
Nayeb
Shibaji Pal ...
Hindu Victim (as Shivaji Pal)
Puchke ...
Baliff
Soumyabrata Rakhsit ...
Rakshit Muslim Rioteer (as Soumyabrata Rakshit)
Prosenjit Rakshit ...
Justice B. K. Mukherjee
Pushpendu Roy ...
Golaap's Customer 3 (as Pushpendo Roy)
Asim Roychowdhury ...
Ayan Ghosh (as Asim Roy Chowdhury)
Diganta Saha ...
Juthika's Customer 1
Diganta Saha ...
Customer
Siddhartha Saha ...
Golaap's Rapists in Riot
Kartik Seth ...
Congress Party Leader
Harcharan Singh ...
Balwant Singh
Daniel Thomson ...
Official at Viceroy House
Tiger ...
Shekhu

Directed by

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Srijit Mukherji

Written by

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Shaket Banerjee ... (subtitles) (as Saket Banerjee)
 
Annapurna Basu ... (subtitles)
 
Srijit Mukherji ... (story, screenplay & dialogue)

Produced by

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Pritam Chowdhury ... executive producer
Rahul Mohta ... associate producer
Shrikant Mohta ... producer
Vishnu Mohta ... co-producer
Ravi Sharma ... associate producer
Mahendra Soni ... executive producer

Music by

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Indraadip Dasgupta ... (as Indraadip Das Gupta)

Cinematography by

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Avik Mukhopadhyay ... (as Avik Mukhopadhay)

Editing by

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Pronoy Dasgupta
Srijit Mukherji

Editorial Department

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Debojyoti Ghosh ... digital intermediate colorist
Debakriti Kundu ... senior conformist: Editfx Studios
Rajkahini ... senior conformist: Editfx Studios

Production Design by

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Shibaji Pal

Art Direction by

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Tanmoy Chakraborty ... (as Tanmay Chakraborty)

Set Decoration by

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Md. Ziauddin ... (set exp)

Costume Design by

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Sabarni Das

Makeup Department

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Mohammad Ali ... make up (as Md. Ali)
Md. Azad ... assistant makeup artist
Arati Chandra ... hair dresser
Uday Chowdhury ... assistant makeup artist
Sayan Das ... hair dresser
Sanjay Ghorui ... assistant makeup artist
Hafizul Hoque ... assistant makeup artist
Anup Malakar ... make up: Rituparna Sengupta
Santosh Mishra ... assistant makeup artist
Hema Munshi ... hair dresser
Bholanath Pathak ... make up: Jisshu U. Sengupta (as Bhola Pathak)
Amitabha Saha ... assistant makeup artist (as Amitava Saha)

Production Management

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Bhola Chowdhury ... production manager
Subir Raut ... production manager (as Subir Routh)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Satyam Bhattacharya ... assistant director
Rahul Dev Bose ... assistant director
Ivy Chatterjee ... assistant director
Gourav Ghosh ... assistant director
Soumyabrata Rakhsit ... chief assistant director (as Soumyabrata Rakshit)
Ananya Sen ... assistant director
Atreyee Sen ... assistant director

Art Department

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Tarak Chakraborty ... art setting
Dhrubajyoti Chatterjee ... art setting
Sanjib Roy Choudhury ... assistant art director
Tamal Chowdhury ... art setting
Amit Das ... art setting
Champa Das ... art setting
Pronoy Dasgupta ... promo & title design
Bidesh Mondal ... promo & title design (as Bidesh Mondol)
Sisir Mondal ... art setting
Bindra Pradhan ... assistant art director
Laxman Rout ... art setting
Subhash Saha ... assistant art director (as Subhas Saha)
Dipak Shaw ... art setting

Sound Department

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Aneesh Basu ... layering and design assistant: dream digital inc / sound re-recording assistant mixer: dream digital inc
Soutrik Chakraborty ... foley recording engineer: dream digital inc
Prasenjit K. Chakrabutty ... background score and sound mixing engineer: dream digital inc
Shoma Chakravorty ... ddi business manager: dream digital inc
Ashok Das ... boom man (as Ashok Kumar Das)
Amit Kumar Dutta ... dub match and promo mixing engineer: dream digital inc
Anirban Ganguly ... dubbing engineer: dream digital inc
Sinoy Joseph ... sound re-recordist
Boney M. Joy ... assistant re-recording mixer
Shubho Deep Mittra ... sound mixer (as Subhadeep Mitra)
Gayadhar Nayek ... foley artist / foley artist: dream digital inc (as Gaya Dhar Nayak)
Soma Poddar ... sound recordist
Sudeepta Sadhukhan ... sound re-recording assistant mixer: dream digital inc
Sainathan ... assistant recordist (as Sainathan K.)
Tapan Sardar ... sound recordist
Tathagata Sen ... ddi finance manager: dream digital inc
Anirban Sengupta ... sound design & film mix / sound re-recording mixer: dream digital inc

Visual Effects by

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Vikas Bajaj ... manager operations: editfx studios
Santanu Bhattacharya ... shoot supervisor: svfx studios / vfx supervisor: svfx studios
Sourav Bose ... roto team: svfx studios
Amit Chakraborty ... clean-up team: svfx studios
Shreyashi Chakraborty ... marketing: svfx studios
Soumyadip Chakraborty ... chief executive officer and vfx creative director: svfx studios
Swarnadip Chakraborty ... shoot supervisor: svfx studios
Sayan Chattopadhyay ... VFX Compositor
Kushal Chirimar ... administrator: editfx studios / post-production in-charge: editfx studios
Monali Sinha Chowdhury ... compositing team: svfx studios
Tanmoy Dalui ... matte paint team: svfx studios
Subhajit Dari ... compositing team: svfx studios (as Suvojit Dari)
Suvojit Dari ... compositor
Gour Das ... edit manager: editfx studios
Kingshuk Das ... edit manager: editfx studios
Swati Das ... matte paint team: svfx studios / matte painter
Deepanjali Dey ... matte paint team: svfx studios
Ranjan Dey ... 3d team: svfx studios (as Ranjan De)
Agnidhra Dutta ... roto team: svfx studios
Biplab Dutta ... 3d team: svfx studios
Debolina Ganguly ... roto team: svfx studios
Rupak Ghosh ... 3d team: svfx studios
Saubarna Krishna Giri ... compositing team: svfx studios
Anup Kumar Hazra ... match move team svfx studios
Tanmoy Hazra ... compositing team: svfx studios
Sanchita Karan ... post co-ordinator: editfx studios (as Sanchaita Karan)
Santu Kayal ... compositing team: svfx studios
Debakriti Kundu ... di-conformist: editfx studios
Anup Maity ... edit manager: editfx studios
Subhadip Mal ... roto team: svfx studios
Debajyoti Mallick ... production manager: svfx studios
Saikat Mallick ... compositing team: svfx studios
Biswajit Manna ... roto team: svfx studios
Asit Middye ... 3d team: svfx studios (as Asit Midya)
Soumendu Mondal ... clean-up team: svfx studios
Mahitosh Naskar ... roto team: svfx studios
Debashis Pal ... compositing team: svfx studios
Sumit Pal ... 3d team: svfx studios (as Sumit Paul)
Rahul Pan ... compositing team: svfx studios
Azizur Rahim ... 3d team: svfx studios
Tasifur Rahman ... roto team: svfx studios
Kaushik Kumar Roy ... compositing team: svfx studios (as Kaushik Kumar Ray)
Milton Roy ... 3d team: svfx studios
Champak Saha ... compositing team: svfx studios (as Champak Kumar Saha)
Gaurav Saha ... compositing team: svfx studios
Sudip Samanta ... line producer: svfx studios
Tapas Sarkar ... clean-up team: svfx studios
Subrata Shee ... roto team: svfx studios (as Shubrata Shee)
Sumit Shil ... compositing team: svfx studios (as Sumit Sil)
Arup Kumar Singha ... compositing team: svfx studios

Stunts

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Shantanu Pal ... fight master

Camera and Electrical Department

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Ashok Bej ... camera attendant
Goopi Bhagat ... camera operator (as Gopi Bhagat) / chief assistant cinematographer (as Gopi Bhagat)
Gopal Bhagat ... electrician
Khokan Bhandari ... cat-walk
Anutosh Bhowmick ... light caretaker
Jayanta Biswas ... light caretaker
Shyamal Biswas ... assistant cameraman
Sukanta Chakraborty ... assistant cameraman
Bappa Dalal ... focus puller
Swapan Dalal ... focus puller
Ashish Das ... camera attendant (as Ashis Das)
Jagadish Das ... light caretaker
Raj Kumar Das ... trolley setting
Subrata Das ... light caretaker
Sujit Das ... camera attendant
Sukumar Das ... trolley setting
Sankar Dey ... light caretaker
Animesh Ghorui ... camera attendant
Anup Ghosh ... electrician (as Anup Kumar Ghosh)
Shahjuddin Jamadar ... assistant cameraman
Ganesh Makal ... light caretaker
Atanu Mandal ... Focus puller / focus puller
Raj Kumar Manna ... light caretaker
Satyajit Manna ... cat-walk
Mahadeb Mondal ... light caretaker
Basudev Naskar ... light caretaker (as Basudeb Naskar)
Jaydeb Naskar ... light caretaker
Ratan Naskar ... light caretaker
Avijit Paik ... light caretaker
Rajesh Paswan ... light caretaker
Shambhu Prajapati ... light caretaker
Gopal Roy ... camera attendant
Prabhat Kumar Roy ... cat-walk
Arindam Rozario ... light caretaker
Lakshman Saha ... light caretaker
Swarup Saha ... electrician
Kanai Sahoo ... still photographer
Dipankar Sardar ... light caretaker
Sanjay Sarkar ... light caretaker (as Sanjoy Sarkar)
Jitendra Kumar Sha ... light caretaker (as Jitendra Kumar Shaw)
Mukesh Singh ... light caretaker
Ajit Tanti ... light caretaker

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Bapi Adhikary ... dresser (as Bapi Adhikari)
Bapi Dhara ... dresser
Mangal Hazra ... dresser
Shambhu Jana ... dresser
Tamal Kanti Jana ... dresser
Ratan Lal ... dresser
Krishnendu Maity ... dresser
Krishnendu Sapui ... dresser
Bimal Sen ... dresser

Music Department

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Srikanta Acharya ... playback singer
Rupankar Bagchi ... playback singer
Rekha Bhardwaj ... playback singer (as Rekha Bharadwaj)
Kaushiki Chakraborty ... playback singer
Lagnajita Chakraborty ... playback singer
Shamik Chakravarty ... music programmer (as Shamik Chakraborty) / programmer
Amit Chatterjee ... music assistant
Indraadip Dasgupta ... background music (as Indraadip Das Gupta) / playback singer (as Indraadip Das Gupta)
Anwesha Duttagupta ... playback singer (as Anweshaa Duttagupta)
Hassan Haider Hussain ... shehnai
Rupam Islam ... playback singer
Shubhayu Sen Majumdar ... musician (as Subhayu Senmajumder)
Lopamudra Mitra ... playback singer
Shubho Deep Mittra ... background mix & premix (as Subhadeep Mitra) / song mixing & mastering (as Subhadeep Mitra)
Joydeb Nandi ... musician
Anupam Roy ... playback singer
Rohan Roy ... violin
Siddhartha Roy ... playback singer (as Siddhartha Sidhu Ray)
Tapas Roy ... stokes
Srabani Sen ... playback singer (as Sraboni Sen)
Debasis Shome ... music programmer
Srijato ... lyricist
Pratik Srivastava ... musician (as Pratik Srivastav)
Kabir Suman ... playback singer
Babul Supriyo ... playback singer
Rabindranath Tagore ... lyricist

Transportation Department

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Ananta Adhikari ... car & van hire (as Ananta Adhikary)
Bhombol Barick ... car & van hire
Tapasi Barik ... car & van hire
Sukhlal Barman ... car & van hire (as Suklal Barman)
Milan Burman ... car & van hire
Somnath Chatterjee ... car & van hire
Shibu Chowdhury ... car & van hire
Indrajit Dutta ... car & van hire
Sujoy Dutta ... car & van hire (as Sujay Datta)
Bhaskar Ghosh ... car & van hire
Gautam Ghosh ... travel & hospitality desk: svf
Mahadeb Maity ... car & van hire
Amalendu Mishra ... car & van hire
Anup Mitra ... car & van hire
Sk. Rahim ... car & van hire
Kartick Roy ... car & van hire
Rima Roy ... car & van hire
Arun Sarkar ... car & van hire
Vinod Yadav ... car & van hire

Additional Crew

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Kajal Adak ... office boy: svf
Bapi Adhikary ... production team: svf (as Bapi Adhikari)
Mohammad Ali ... wig purchase (as Md. Ali)
Shreya Banerjee ... production co-ordinator
Bidyut Barman ... production assistant
Animesh Basu ... junior artists supplier
Arindam Biswas ... marketing & branding
Rajib Biswas ... post production head
Bunty ... co-ordinator: Purulia
Prasenjit Chandra ... camera equipment hire
Debojyoti Chatterjee ... post team: svf
Neha Chaudhary ... legal and operation: svf
Dipali Choudhury ... lodging
Kartick Choudhury ... food supplier
Shib Shankar Choudhury ... food supplier
Pradip Chowdhury ... shooting special requisition
Subhodip Chowdhury ... marketing & branding (as Subhadip Choudhury)
Prafulla Dalui ... set props hire
Arati Das ... food supplier
Arunava Das ... post team: svf
Buddhadev Das ... artist assistant
C. Das ... light hire / set light material
Lakhkhi Das ... production assistant (as Laxmi Kanta Das)
Prithwish Das ... set light material
Sujit Das ... production team: svf
Sushanta Das ... office support team
Suvasis Das ... set light material
Tapas Kumar Das ... lodging
Mrinal Kanti Deb ... set props hire
Rajib Lochan Dey ... lodging
Rita Dey ... set props hire
Debashree Dutta ... promotion
Prabuddha Ghosh ... office boy: svf
Prasenjit Ghosh ... junior artists supplier
Subrata Ghosh ... finance team: svf (as Subroto Ghosh)
Dilip Giri ... post production team: svf
Rajendra Prasad Gupta ... set props hire
Raju Gupta ... finance team: svf
Newton Halder ... sound & nagra hire
Pradip Jalan ... set props hire (as Pradip Jalal)
Nathuni Kamat ... office support team
Ahana Kanjilal ... press & media (as Ahana Kanjilal Dutta)
Jyotirmoy Khatua ... home video: svf
Laltu Laha ... office support team
Jhantu Mallick ... production assistant
Arun Manna ... production controller
Saurav Modi ... junior artists supplier (as Saurav Mudi)
Md. Mohiuddin ... finance team: svf
Arun Mondal ... distribution team: svf
Bidesh Mondal ... vfx: svf (as Bidesh Mondol)
Poulami Mukherjee ... vfx: svf (as Poulomi Mukherjee)
Rishita Mukherjee ... social media marketing
Sk. Nurzamal ... shooting special requisition
Jayanta Kumar Parida ... set props hire
Dushmanta Paul ... production assistant
Srimanta Paul ... production assistant
Md. Piyasuddin ... post production associate
Manabendra Pramanick ... junior artists supplier
Rakesh Prasad ... finance team: svf
Pranabesh Ram ... jimmy jip hire
Aritra Ray ... social media marketing
Sunil Routh ... food supplier
Biswajit Rudra ... junior artists supplier
Ranajit Samanta ... equipment hire
Sormistha Samanta ... makeup material purchase / set light material
Debashish Sarkar ... distribution team: svf
Tapan Sarkar ... production assistant
Ashok Saw ... distribution team: svf (as Ashok Shaw)
Subhash Seal ... artist assistant
Milan Sen ... makeup material purchase
Milen Sen ... set light material
Subhashis Sen ... finance team: svf
Lipi Sengupta ... post production team: svf
Sourav Sengupta ... post production associate (as Saurav Sengupta)
Ashis Seth ... co-ordinator: Bolpur
Deven Shah ... set light material
Hari Pratap Singh ... censor co-ordinator: svf
Rajesh Singh ... lodging
Charan Swain ... set light material
S.K. Taher ... junior artists supplier
Joginder Yadav ... finance team: svf (as Yogendra Yadav)
Sebaram Yadav ... equipment hire
Md. Ziauddin ... set material suppliers

Thanks

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Jeffrey Archer ... acknowledgment
Sumanta Bandyopadhyay ... acknowledgment
Joymalya Banerjee ... acknowledgment
Damini Basu ... acknowledgment
Priya Basu ... acknowledgment
Shakuntala Khan Bhaduri ... acknowledgment
Rajib Biswas ... acknowledgment
Billy Bose ... acknowledgment
Urvashi Butalia ... acknowledgment
Jaya Chatterjee ... acknowledgment
Pranab Chatterjee ... acknowledgment
Vidhi Chaucharia ... acknowledgment
Immat Chugtai ... acknowledgment
Ashok Kumar Dhanuka ... acknowledgment (as Ashok Dhanuka)
Patrick Eyre ... acknowledgment
Anindya Ghosh ... acknowledgment
Suman Ghosh ... acknowledgment
Mushirul Hasan ... acknowledgment
Subrata Kar ... acknowledgment
Subir Kaul ... acknowledgment
P.Y. Rajendra Kumar ... acknowledgment
Sushil Majhi ... acknowledgment
Saadat Hassan Manto ... acknowledgment
Kharaj Mukherjee ... acknowledgment
Subir Nilkantha ... acknowledgment
Pradipta Pal ... acknowledgment
Haimanti Roy ... acknowledgment
Harcharan Singh ... acknowledgment
Abanindranath Tagore ... acknowledgment
Rana Basu Tagore ... acknowledgment

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Plot Summary

In August 1947, the British passed a bill regarding the partition of Bengal. Delving into the grim history of the Partition, Mukherjee's movie Rajkahini is woven around a border between the two nations that runs through a brothel housing 11 women.

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  • 160 min
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Box Office

Budget INR30,500,000 (estimated)

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