Chander Bari

Chander Bari

2007 · 120 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama, Family

The story of a Bengali joint family which starts as the mother refuses to acknowledge the foreign-returned wife of her son and her child from a previous marriage.

Directed by Tarun Majumdar · Written by Pracheta Gupta

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