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Kichhu Sanglap Kichhu Pralap

1999 film by Ashoke Viswanathan

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Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ18987343 ↗
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Kichhhu Sanlap Kichhu Pralap (English: Dialogue and Delirium) is a 1999 Indian Bengali drama film directed and produced by Ashoke Viswanathan, starting Ashoke Viswanathan, Sanjiban Guha and Nandini Ghosal in the lead roles. Screenplay written by Ashoke Viswanathan collaboratively with Shankar Bhaterjee, Prhalad Chattopadhay and Mrinmoy nandi.

The film is mostly based on Kolkata's gossip in Indian Coffee House of College Street, the relationship between two young couple and outside the film will probably appeal to communists and the intellectuals of Kolkata city in that time.

The film was generally received well by critics and won Indian Panorama at IFFI (1999) and National Film Awards (1999).

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This entry incorporates text from “Kichhu Sanglap Kichhu Pralap” 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.