Top Cast
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Partho Mukerjee
Tarapada
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Basabi Bannerjee
Charushashi
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Ajitesh Bandopadhyay
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Samita Biswas
Tarapada's mother
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Geeta Mukherjee
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Salil Dutta
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Bankim Ghosh
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Smita Sinha
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Soumen Mukhopadhyay
Overview
This is the story of the wanderlust in a teenage boy, Tarapada, who often ran away from his home for days to join groups of wandering players, musicians and acrobats. Based on a story by Rabindranath Tagore.
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