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and starring

Sreelekha Mitra Sreelekha Mitra (Bengali language, Bengali: শ্রীলেখা মিত্র) is an Indian actress who is known for her work in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. Winner of a Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards, BFJA Award a ...

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and

. It is based on the novel ''Rangeen Prithibi'' by

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played an important, special role in the film.

Premise

Sreelekha plays the role of a home-maker who falls into the glamour world of films by chance

Cast

*Samaresh Chakraborty *Komolika Bannerjee *

Biswajit Chakraborty Biswajit Chakraborty, (born 29 October 1948) is an Indian film actor who appears predominantly in Bengali movies. He was born in Kolkata, West Bengal. His debut movie was '' Sunya Theke Suru'' directed by Ashoke Viswanathan. He has acted in more ...

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*Supriyo Tagore *Ratul Bhattacharjee *Haradan Bose *

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*Anindo Banerjee *

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*Subarna Ghosh *Rohan Dutta *Arindol Bagchi *Debjani Deb *

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*Mita Chatterjee *Monica Chakraborty *

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*Manjula Poley *Uma Basu *

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Special Appearance

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Crew

*Lyrics - Shubho Dasgupta, Sri Barun *Art Director - Tanmoy Chakraborty *Script Writer - Dipanwita Ghosh Mukhopadhyay *Playback Singers - JojoDebojit, Preeta Bannerjee, Ustad Rashid Khan *Choreography - Kailash Sharma

Controversy

In the 2020 controversial vlog ''

Let's Expose It Face It The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that forms a command or request. The imperative mood is used to demand or require that an action be performed. It is usually found only in the present tense, second person. To form the imperative mood, ...

'', Sreelekha Mitra said that

Rituparna Sengupta Rituparna Sengupta is an Indian actress and producer who is known for her work in Bengali cinema and Hindi cinema. One of the most successful actresses of Bengali cinema, she rode the crest of her box office success in the late 1990s. She won ...

wanted to play the lead in the film. She made a phone call to Arjun Chakraborty and requested him to cast herself replacing Sreelekha Mitra. Sreelekha Mitra claimed that Sengupta went on persisting that she would work at a lower remuneration if Chakraborty cast her.

References

External links

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