To please his dying daughter, a father tries to create the Durga Puja festival, usually held in October, during the month of April, in Kolkata.
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Sara Sengupta
Uma
Jisshu Sengupta
Himadri
Anjan Dutt
Brahmananda
Rudranil Ghosh
Gobindo
Srabanti Chatterjee
Menoka
Sujan Mukherjee
Nibedita Mukherjee
Anirban Bhattacharya
Mohitosh Sur
Apratim Chatterjee
Partha Sen
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