Anjangarh
Genres
Overview
When a local mining company dares to provide its workers a fair wage for a fair day's work, and lets its workers unionize, the kingdom's villainous potentate is less than pleased. After considerable pressure, the company agrees to blame unrest in the region on a blameless worker collective.
Details
Budget
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Revenue
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Runtime
0 min
Release Date
1948-09-24
Status
Released
Original Language
Bengali
Vote Count
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Tulsi Chakraborty
Parul Kar
Chhabi Roy
Bipin Gupta
Purnendu Mukherjee
Jahar Roy
Sunil Das Gupta
Sunanda Devi
Amita Bose
Raja Gangopadhyay
Phalguni Ray
Manorama Devi
Shankar Sen
Kalipada Sarkar
Bhanu Banerjee
Manoranjan Bhattacharya
Indu Mukherjee
Jiben Bose
Bhaskar Deb
Anil Mitra
Tapan Mitra
Bolin Som
Prafulla Mukherjee
Sadhan Sarkar
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