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Parineeta (1942)

Parineeta poster
Directed by
Pashupati Chatterjee
Genre
romance film
Country
British Raj
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman faces complicated romantic and family tensions when her future marriage is put in doubt. The story follows her relationships and the social pressures she navigates in colonial Bengal.

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What happens

Parineeta (English: Married woman) is 1942 Bengali film directed by Pashupati Chatterjee based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's 1914 novel of same name. The English title for the film is The Fiancée. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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