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Charulata (1964) FR #685 | Movie | Romance, Drama | India | Bengali, English
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Director Satyajit Ray
Writer Rabindranath Tagore, Satyajit Ray
Cast Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhavi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee
Plot The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.
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Teen Kanya aka Three Daughters (1961) FR #1224 | Movie | Drama | India | Bengali
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Director Satyajit Ray
Writer Satyajit Ray, Rabindranath Tagore
Cast Anil Chatterjee, Chandana Banerjee, Aparna Sen
Plot Based on popular Indian stories of the great writer Rabindranath Tagore, these short films reveal definitive moments in the lives of three young girls.
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Ghare-Baire aka The Home And The World (1984) FR #1689 | Movie | Drama | India | English, Bengali
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Director Satyajit Ray
Writer Satyajit Ray, Rabindranath Tagore
Cast Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, Swatilekha Sengupta
Plot When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her o...
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Kabuliwala (1961) FR #1730 | Movie | Drama | India | Hindi
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Director Hemen Gupta
Writer Vishram Bedekar, S. Khalil, Rabindranath Tagore
Cast Balraj Sahni, Baby Sonu, Usha Kiran
Plot A poor Afghani leaves his family behind to earn a living as a dried fruit vendor in India. Profoundly homesick, he befriends a young girl who reminds him of his own daughter. Meanwhile, the locals are distrustful of all foreigners.
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Kabuliwala (1957) FR #2992 | Movie | Drama | India | Bengali
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Director Tapan Sinha
Writer Premendra Mitra, Tapan Sinha, Rabindranath Tagore
Cast Chhabi Biswas, Oindrila Tagore, Radhamohan Bhattacharya
Plot Rahmat a middle-aged fruit seller from Afghanistan, comes to Calcutta to hawk his merchandise and befriends a small Bengali girl called Mini.
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Editorial Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Rabindranath Tagore collects the writer’s most important, popular and top regarded work. This list is built from the cataogue of 25000 core titles provided on FlickRatings, and showcases most important movies and TV shows as ordered by our score generated using public metadata. Combine this with our weekly updated OTT information to shortlist your next watch.
