Hatibagan is a neighbourhood in north Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

 (formerly Calcutta). The area is under Shyampukur

Shyampukur

Shyampukur is a neighbourhood in north Kolkata, earlier known as Calcutta, in the Indian state of West Bengal. As a neighbourhood, it covers a small area but its importance is primarily because of the police station and the assembly constituency.-Etymology:...

  & Burtalla police stations. It is next to Shyambazar

Shyambazar

Shyambazar is a neighbourhood in north Kolkata, earlier known as Calcutta, in the Indian state of West Bengal. The area, under Shyampukur police station of Kolkata Police, has been, along with neighbouring Bagbazar, the citadel of the Bengali aristocracy, in a part of what was earlier known as...

. The place is popular for its Shops, Markets, Cinema

Movie theater

A movie theater, cinema, movie house, picture theater, film theater is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures ....

 Halls & old Theatres, No other places in Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

 cover as many Cinema & Theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 halls as Hatibagan covers. Hatibagan is one of the oldest traditional markets in Kolkata city, 97 years old in 2009, One can buy typical Bengal silk and cotton saris here. Two major roads those cross through Hatibagan are Bidhan Sarani & Aurobinda Sarani (formerly Grey Street

Grey Street (Road)

Grey Street - one of the oldest roads in then Calcutta & the road is renamed as Aurobinda Sarani.This road joins the Acharya Prafulla Chandra Rd with Rabindra Sarani . It originates at Ultadanga, known as ultadanga Main Rd, changes to Aurobinda Sarani at Khanna Cinema crossing, A. P. C...

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Hatibagan-Shyambazar broadly cover Ward Nos. 11 and 12 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation

Kolkata Municipal Corporation

Kolkata Municipal Corporation is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city of Kolkata. The organization is known, in short, as KMC . This civic administrative body administers an area of 185 sq. km. Its motto, Purosree Bibardhan, is inscribed on its emblem in Bengali...

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The Japanese had dropped a bomb at Hatibagan market during World War II but it did not explode.