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The Name of a River is a film of genre Drama with Supriya Choudhury

The Name of a River (2002)

The Name of a River
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Genres Drama
Rating71% 3.553983.553983.553983.553983.55398

Ekti Nadir Naam (English: The Name of a River) is a documentary-style film directed Anup Singh, exploring the life and work of the great Indian filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak and is set in the partition of Bengal in 1947.

The film won the Silver Dhow Prize at the 5th Zanzibar International Film Festival.

Actors

Supriya Choudhury
Shomi Kaiser
Rawshan Jamil
Kobori Sarwar
Gita Dey
And :
Gita Ghatak
Bidya Sinha Saha Mim
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