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. The film won the National Award for the Best Film and the Best Child Actress in 1959. The award was presented by the first President of IndiaDr

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and the then Prime Minister

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. It was screened at the

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Cast

*Bharati Debi *Manju Adhikary *

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*Nitish Mukhopadhyay *Sailen Gangopadhyay *

Tulsi Lahiri Tulsi Lahiri (7 April 1897 – 22 June 1959) was a Bengali actor, director and play writer. Early life Lahiri was born in 1897 in a zamindar family of Naldanga village, Rangpur of British India. He passed B.A and B.L and started his lawyer caree ...

*Manorama Debi *Nibhanani Debi *Master Bibhu *Amar Pal *Md. Israel

Awards

; National Film Awards *

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National Film Award for Best Feature Film The National Award for Best Feature Film is one of the categories in the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in India. It is one of se ...

* 1959

National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali The National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of severa ...

* 1959National Award for Best Child ActressManju Adhikari ;

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*1959

Golden Bear The Golden Bear (german: Goldener Bär) is the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival. The bear is the heraldic animal of Berlin, featured on both the coat of arms and flag of Berlin. History The win ...

Nominated

References

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* 1959 films 1950s Bengali-language films Bengali-language Indian films Indian black-and-white films Films directed by Debaki Bose Best Feature Film National Film Award winners Best Bengali Feature Film National Film Award winners {{1950s-Bengali-film-stub