Ganadevata English The People 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, Robi Ghosh and Anup Kumar in lead roles. The epic novel is set in 1920s during the British Raj, about the breakdown of socioeconomic structures, impact of industrialization and noncooperation movement in rural Bengal . It had also won the writer Bandopadhyay, the 1966 Jnanpith Award.
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