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Image Credit: Raj Chakraborty Instagram page

Bengali filmmaker Raj Chakraborty tests COVID-19 positive

| @indiablooms | Aug 18, 2020, at 12:16 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Prominent Bengali filmmaker Raj Chakraborty on Monday said he has tested positive for COVID-19.

Raj said he is currently in home quarantine.

He tweeted, "I have been tested COVID-19 positive. My father has been hospitalized recently, but he has been tested negative both the time. In home quarantine right now. Rest of my family members will be testing for COVID-19 too. These are the trying times."

Raj is one of the most successful commercial filmmakers in West Bengal film industry.

He has directed several popular Bengali movies like Chirodini Tumi Je Amar, Le Chakka, Challenge, Dui Prithibi and Parineeta.

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