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- ↑ "Samaresh Majumdar's boy-next-door sleuth Arjun comes alive on celluloid".
- ↑ "Prasanna Kumar Basu by Narayan Sanyal - Famous Bengali detectives who have made it to the big screen". The Times of India. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
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