The movie is based on the well-known novel Chowringhee by popular Bengali author Mani Shankar Mukherjee (Sankar).[3] The 1968 film Chowringhee is an iconic Bengali film, based on the namesake novel, and starring Supriya Devi, Uttam Kumar, Subhendu Chatterjee,Anjana Bhowmik , Utpal Dutt and Biswajit.
