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Ganadevata is a 1978 Bengali drama film directed by Tarun Majumdar, based on a novel by same name by Tarashankar Bandopadhyay. The film stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Ajitesh Bannerjee, Samit Bhanja, Nilkantha Sengupta, Rabi Ghosh and Anup Kumar in lead roles. The epic novel is set in 1920's during the British Raj, about the breakdown of socio-economic structures, impact of industrialization and non-cooperation movement in rural Bengal. It had also won the writer Bandopadhyay, the 1966 Jnanpith Award.
Original Release
06/29/1978
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Laxmi Adhikari | |
| Shukla Bandyopadhyay | |
| Swapna Bandyopadhyay | |
| Chitra Banerjee | (as Chitra Bandyopadhyay) |
| Ajitesh Bannerjee | Srihari Ghosh |
| Dilip Bannerjee | (as Dilip Bandyopadhyay) |
| Haradhan Basu | |
| Khokan Basu | |
| Samit Bhanja | Aniruddha |
| Shambhunath Bhattacharya |
Directors
Writers
Arnab Majumdar, Tarun Majumdar, Tarashankar Banerjee, Rajen Tarafder
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Laxmi Adhikari | |
| Shukla Bandyopadhyay | |
| Swapna Bandyopadhyay | |
| Chitra Banerjee | (as Chitra Bandyopadhyay) |
| Ajitesh Bannerjee | Srihari Ghosh |
| Dilip Bannerjee | (as Dilip Bandyopadhyay) |
| Haradhan Basu | |
| Khokan Basu | |
| Samit Bhanja | Aniruddha |
| Shambhunath Bhattacharya | |
| Shashanka Bhattacharya | |
| Nimu Bhowmick | Police inspector |
| Ashim Chakraborty | Zamindar |
| Sachin Chakraborty | |
| Shamik Chakraborty | |
| Govinda Chakravarti | |
| Santi Chatterjee | (as Santi Chattopadhyay) |
| Soumitra Chatterjee | Debu Pandit |
| Tapan Chatterjee | Tara Napit |
| Mihir Chattopadhyay |
