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Satyajit Ray is the most acknowledged Indian name in international film world and one of the greatest film makers of all time. Most of his films were made in Bengali but the universal humanitarian appeal of his movies touched cinegoers through out the world. Ray was born in 2nd May, 1921 in a distinguished family in north Calcutta. His grandfather Upendrakishore Roychoudhury was a famous children's story writer. He was a friend of Tagore and took Ray to Tagore at his childhood.
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Mrinal Sen is one of the popular directors in Bangali film industry and one of the elite member of Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA). His interest in film was sudden when he came a across a book titled "FILM" by Rudolf Arnheim. His films were influenced by leftist idealism and mostly focused the social and political, the crisis in middle class life. Mrinal's first movie was "raat bhor" in 1956. His second movie "Neel Akasher Nichey (Under The Blue Sky)" was banned by Govt for two months in 1958. He made "baisey sravan"(A wedding day) in 1960 which was a love story ending in famine. In 1956 he made Akash Kusum (The Daydream). |
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Ritwik Ghatak -an star crossed artist who profoundly influenced on the Bengali cinema but unfortunately recognized critically in abroad only after his untimely death.
His stories and images are permeated with the personal urgency he felt for the people whose lives and culture were irreparably ruptured by the pertition of Bengal.
His films also have a vital, regenerative power, fed by the artist's insatiable intelligence and his skillful integration of popular forms of culture - melodrama, songs, and dance - into politically radical themes. His major influence was Eisenstein, and he said, "I have wanted to use the cinema as a weapon". But if he shocks, he does so with photography that is thought made visible, editing that turns melodrama into a form of music, and music that tells its own bold and surprising story.
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Tapan Sinha began his film career as a sound engineer in Calcutta's New Theatre in 1946. Four years later, he received an invitation to the London film festival and the opportunity of working at Pinewood Studios. He was in UK for two years. On returning to India, he turned his attentions to film directing. Tapan Sinha was influenced by American and British film making. Tagore was a great source of inspiration to him. He made three films on Tagore's stories: Kabuliwala, Hungry Stones (Khudito Pashan), Atithi. |
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Gautam Ghosh was a strident political activist and a photo journalist who toured the country to document images of life and times in India.During his graduation he involved in the theatre as entertainer and director. He acted in
Grihajudda by Buddahaeb Dasgupta in 1982. He is a professional photo-journalist and directed his first short New Earth in 1973. His first film MABHOOMI depicted the uprising of the workers against the Nizam
of Hyderabad.A lot of improvisations went into the making of this film. Here he tried to mix
the fictional and the documentary elements with some degree of success.Gautam Ghosh is probably the youngest of Indian film directors to have a
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Rituporno Ghosh is one of the young talents in Bengali Cinema industry. He has directed a number of films and still nurishing the Bengali films with his profound effort and talent creating films on bengali society depicting different levels of poeple,their lives and culture.Moreover,he is associated with famous bengali magazine "Anandalok" and bengali TV channel "Tara Bangla" .His popular films are Hirer Angti,Dahan,Chokher Bali,Bariwali,Bariwali etc. |
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