Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession.
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Ritwick Chakraborty
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Basabdatta Chatterjee
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Sushama Pailan
Chandra Das
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Putul Das
Shefali Ghosh
Nasira Bibi
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