| 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 at Park Street, Kolkata. [2]
Park Street is a cosmopolitan place in Kolkata and the film focuses on different aspects of life of this locality. It focuses on different characters like a drug addict young girl, gays raping boys, pimps, housewife having affair with others etc. [2] [3]
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