16 Sep 2015
Pawn Sacrifice
American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.
Dabaru
Dabaru is a melodramatic tale about a young chess player named Surya who rose from the alleys of North Kolkata to become a grand master.
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Samadarshi Sarkar 
Arghya Basu Roy 
Rituparna Sengupta 
Chiranjeet Chakraborty 
Dipankar Dey 
Kaushik Sen 
Shankar Chakraborty 
Kharaj Mukherjee 
Biswanath Basu Sanghashri Sinha Mitra Tirtha Mistry
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