23 May 2016
Five Pillars
The lives of vastly separate people collide in interweaving stories of liberty, identity, tolerance, responsibility and class.
Char Adhyay
Set in the Bengali Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s. A group of young intellectuals get embroiled in the struggle for Indian independence, sometimes at the expense of their personal lives.
Top Billed Cast
Nandini Ghosal Ela
Kaushik Gopal Indranath
Rajat Kapoor Shruti Yusufi Ramchandra Parihar 
Jaya Bachchan 
Mahatma Gandhi Self (archive footage)
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