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Ek Cup Chya is a film of genre Drama with Kishor Kadam
Ek Cup Chya (2009)
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Add to a movie listEk Cup Chya (English: A Cup of Tea) is a Marathi film based on the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The film was the second project of activist producer Yeshwant Oak. Previously he had collaborated with the same directors Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukhtankar to produce Devrai in 2004 (an equally acclaimed film to create awareness about schizophrenia).
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Kashinath Sawant is a bus conductor with the state transport corporation in Maharashtra. He lives in Kandivali in the coastal region (Konkan) of Mumbai with his mother, his wife Rukmini and their two daughters: Vasanti who is a nurse and Vanadevi, a student. The couple also have two sons, college student Chandan and Abeer, who is in 10th grade preparing to take the state level secondary board exam.Actors
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