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In the movie 36 Chowringhee Lane, Shashi Kapoor plays a man named Ashoke Sen who moves to Kolkata to teach at a university. He rents a room in a boarding house run by Mrs. Kapoor (Suchitra Sen). The two become friends and Mrs. Kapoor becomes a surrogate mother to Ashoke. She is also a housekeeper and cooks for the boarders.