Ek Din Achanak (1989)
Overview
Shasanka is a retired teacher who lives with his wife and two daughters. The family is thrown into an uproar after he goes out for a walk and disappears from their lives. Each member of the family reviews her final hours and days with him to try and discover what, if anything led to his disappearance.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | hi |
| Popularity | 0.619 |
Directed By
Mrinal Sen
Crew
Mrinal Sen
Mrinal Sen
Ramapada Chowdhury
Shashi Anand
Siddhartha Dutta
Rahul Bose
Rashid Iqbal
Alok Upadhyay
Sunirmal Mazumdar
Subrata Debnath
Ashok Nag
Debashish Ghosh
Rathin Bose
Biswanath Das
Chakradhar Mahapatra
Hara Das
Manu Dutta
Pulin Kayal
Jitesh Basu Thakur
Subhash Nandy
Mukul Chaudhuri
Debi Haldar
Ram Prasad Kahar
Goutam Basu
Jyotishka Dasgupta
B K Chaturvedi
Mrinmoy Chakraborty
K.K. Mahajan
Ravi Malik
Debasis Majumdar
Anup Mukhyopadhyay
TOP CAST
Shabana Azmi
Neeta Roy
Uttara Baokar
Sudha Roy
Shreeram Lagoo
Shashank Roy
Roopa Ganguly
Seema Roy
Manohar Singh
Samar
Aparna Sen
Aparna Choudhary
Anjan Dutt
Alok
Lily Chakravarty
Neighbor
Anil Chatterjee
Arun
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