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Daughters of This Century is a 1995 Indian Hindi language anthology film directed by Tapan Sinha. The film, comprising of six segments, has its fourth segment based on the Bengali novel Ei Daho (1961) by Gour Kishore Ghosh while rest of the segments are based on five Bengali short stories ⸺ Jibita o Mrita (1904) by Rabindranath Tagore, Abhagir Swarga (1918) by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Satgharia (1976) by Prafulla Roy, Kaanch (1984) by Dibyendu Palit and the last one by Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay. Each segment runs for 30 minutes. The film delves into the plight of Indian women in the 20th century. It stars Shabana Azmi, Jaya Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit, Pallavi Joshi, Deepa Sahi, Nandita Das, Sulabha Deshpande, Gyanesh Mukherjee, Debashree Roy, Mamata Shankar, Pankaj Kapoor, Milind Gunaji, Kaushik Sen and Jeet.