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What it actually is

A Kolkata streaming service carrying Bengali cinema and its own web series, from the Rituparno Ghosh back catalogue to Feluda and Eken Babu detective serials, with English subtitles on most of it. Until this the only moving pictures in Bengali on this list were news, and drama gives you conversational Bengali between people who are not addressing a camera. It is a paid subscription with no free tier worth the name, and the catalogue is overwhelmingly West Bengal rather than Bangladeshi.

What it covers

• Listening
• Vocabulary
• Immersion

Listed for

• Bengali

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