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Ballygunge Court

2007 film

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ21161280 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ballygunge Court is a 2007 Bengali film directed by Pinaki Chaudhuri and produced by Ganesh Bagaria. The film stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Mithu Chakraborty, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Mamata Shankar and Tanusree Shankar in the lead roles. It won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali.

Plot

The plot revolves with three family in an apartment named Ballygunge Court. Younger generation of the families wants to leave their old house leaving their parents.

Editorial summary

“Ballygunge Court” enters the record as 2007 film. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ballygunge, Court and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ballygunge, Court and film.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Ballygunge Court” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ballygunge, Court and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21161280. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  2. Expand the search: follow Ballygunge Court primary sources, Ballygunge Court archive and Ballygunge research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Ballygunge Court” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.