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Commrade

Commrade

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 21, 2017

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Drama

User Score

20%

Original Title

কমরেড

Director

Shankudeb Panda

Description

The story based on the Singur - Nandigram violence which took place in the period of 2006 to 2007 in West Bengal. A peasants movement starts against land acquisition policy by the Government for industrialisation. The government stick on the point to acquire lands for a factory. Party workers confront with the farmers on the issue. Two women, Nandini and Radharani become the leader of the uprising. Nandini is gang-raped and murdered by Comrades and Radharani commits suicide. Those horrific incidents make villagers to more united for their rights. Later Supreme Court of India orders to stop the land acquisition.