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Postmaster (2016)

Postmaster poster
Directed by
Srijon Bardhan
Genre
drama
Country
India
Runtime
2h 26m
Rated
UA
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A young man from the city takes a job as a postmaster in a remote Bengali village. He struggles with loneliness and finds an unexpected companion in a local orphan girl.

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What happens

Postmaster is a 2016 Bengali film based on Rabindranath Tagore's 1891 short story of the same name, directed and written by Srijon Bardhan, produced by Sri Media. The motion picture had its premiere on 7 December 2015 at the 4th Delhi International Film Festival, later being released commercially on 24 June 2016 at Star Theatres, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The film was also selected at the 14th Chennai International Film Festival, in 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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