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Rong Berong

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How it feels

This series adapts popular fairy tales like Beauty and the Beast and Ruslan and Ludmila in a Bengali fantasy setting. It features well-known actors in different story episodes. The show was popular enough to be broadcast twice after its initial run.

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What happens

Rong Berong is a 1989 popular Bengali language Indian fantasy TV series produced by Ratna Ghoshal. It is based on a handful of popular fairy tales such as Beauty and the Beast and Ruslan and Ludmila. It stars eminent actors such as Utpal Dutta, Moon Moon Sen, Kushal Chakraborty, Rituparna Sengupta and Gita Dey. The second episode of the series marked the debut of Rituparna Sengupta who was cast on Kushal Chakraborty's recommendation. Because of the sitcom's popularity, it was telecast twice after its original release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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