Life In Park Street | |
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Directed by | Raj Mukherjee |
Produced by | Pankaj Agarwal |
Starring | Soumitra Chatterjee Debashree Roy Shankar Chakraborty |
Edited by | Tapas Chakraborty |
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Country | India |
Language | Bengali |
Life in Park Street is a 2012 Indian Bengali film directed by Raj Mukherjee. [1] This film revolves around the people and their lives of Park Street, Kolkata. [2]
Park Street is a cosmopolitan place in Kolkata and the film focuses different aspects of life of this locality. Different characters like drug addict young girl, gay raping boys, pimps, housewife having affair with others etc. [2] [3]
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