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Distant Thunder

6.819731h 41mMovieDrama

Gangacharan is the new Brahmin of a village, where he assumes various duties: teaching, organizing religious events, and trying to prevent epidemics. But in that year 1943, war is raging (as reminded by the planes occasionally heard flying…

DirectorSatyajit Ray
WriterSatyajit Ray
ProducerSharbani Bhattacharya

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Cast · Directed by Satyajit Ray

SCSoumitra Chatterjee
Soumitra Chatterjee
Gangacharan Chakravarti
BBobita
Bobita
Ananga, Gangacharan's wife
SRSandhya Roy
Sandhya Roy
Chutki
CB
Chitra Banerjee
Moti
PB
Paritosh Banerjee
SC
Sachin Chakraborty
GC
Govinda Chakravarti
Dinabandhu
SD
Shrikumar Dutta
SD
Subal Dutta
TD
Tapan Dutta
AG
Anil Ganguly
Nibaran
NGNoni Ganguly
Noni Ganguly
'Scarface' Jadu

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