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Madhumati

film by Roy [1958]
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      …memorable films include Bimal Roy’s Madhumati (1958) and Nitin Bose’s Gunga Jumna (1961). He played the dual role of identical twins separated at birth in Ram Aur Shyam (1967; “Ram and Shyam”), creating the template for a Bollywood trope that would later be successfully repeated in films such as Seeta…

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      …memorable films include Bimal Roy’s Madhumati (1958) and Nitin Bose’s Gunga Jumna (1961). He played the dual role of identical twins separated at birth in Ram Aur Shyam (1967; “Ram and Shyam”), creating the template for a Bollywood trope that would later be successfully repeated in films such as Seeta…

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