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Borunbabur Bondhu (2020)

Borunbabur Bondhu poster
Original title
বরুণবাবুর বন্ধু
Directed by
Anik Dutta
Genre
drama
Country
India
Runtime
2h 03m
Rated
UA
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An old man's quiet life is disrupted when it becomes known that a former friend, now a very important person, plans to visit him. The story follows how this upcoming reunion forces him to confront his past and present relationships.

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What happens

Borunbabur Bondhu is a 2019 Bengali-language Indian drama film directed by Anik Dutta for Surinder Films. The film is based on a Bengali story Chhad written by Ramapada Chowdhury. It is the story of an old man, whose life faces an upheaval after people come to know that a VVIP who was once his friend, is coming for a visit. The film stars Soumitra Chatterjee in the role of an elderly man with supporting cast of Madhabi Mukhopadhyay, Paran Bandopadhyay, Ritwick Chakraborty, Arpita Chatterjee, Sreelekha Mitra, Kaushik Sen and Bidipta Chakraborty. The film was screened at the 25th Kolkata International Film Festival in 2019, the Third Eye Asian Film Festival, Mumbai in March 2020, and the Indian Film Festival of Cincinnati, Ohio on 21 October 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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