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Arundhati Devi
Arundhati Devi (; also known as Arundhati Mukherjee or Mukhopadhyay) (1924 – 1990) was an Indian actress, director, writer and singer who is predominantly known for her work in Bengali cinema. Arundhati Devi was a student of Visva-Bharati University where she was trained in Rabindra Sangeet by Sailajaranjan Majumdar. She began her career as a Rabindra Sangeet singer at All India Radio in 1940. As an actress, Arundhati Devi made her film debut in Kartik Chattopadhyay's Bengali film ''Mahaprasthaner Pathe'' (1952) which also had a Hindi version under the title ''Yatrik''. Further on she collaborated with directors such as Devaki Kumar Bose in ''Nabajanma'' (1956), Asit Sen in ''Chalachal'' (1956) and ''Panchatapa'' (1957), Prabhat Mukhopadhyay in ''Maa'' (1956), ''Mamata'' (1957), '' Bicharak'' (1959) and ''Akashpatal'' (1960), and Tapan Sinha in ''Kalamati'' (1958), ''Jhinder Bondi'' (1961), '' Jatugriha'' (1964). In 1963, she was conferred with BFJA Award for Best Actress fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barisal
Barisal ( or ; bn, বরিশাল, ), officially known as Barishal, is a major city that lies on the banks of the Kirtankhola river in south-central Bangladesh. It is the largest city and the administrative headquarter of both Barisal District and Barisal Division. It is one of the oldest municipalities and river ports of the country. Barisal municipality was established in the year 1876 during the British rule in India and upgraded to City Corporation on 25 July 2002. Barisal is Bangladesh's third largest information technology and financial hub. The city consists of 30 wards and 50 mahallas with a population of 328,278 according to the 2011 national census and with the voter of about 2.48 lakhs according to the 2018 voter list of city election. The area of the city is 58 km2. The city was once called the Venice of the East or the Venice of Bengal. History Barisal was conquered by Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji and was later a significant territory of the Delhi Sul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Film Award
The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India. Established in 1954, it has been administered, along with the International Film Festival of India and the Indian Panorama, by the Indian government's Directorate of Film Festivals since 1973. Every year, a national panel appointed by the government selects the winning entry, and the award ceremony is held in New Delhi, where the President of India presents the awards. This is followed by the inauguration of the National Film Festival, where award-winning films are screened for the public. Declared for films produced in the previous year across the country, they hold the distinction of awarding merit to the best of Indian cinema overall, as well as presenting awards for the best films in each region and language of the country. History The Awards were first presented in 1954. The Government of India conceived the ceremony to honor films made across India, on a national scale, to encourage the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 Births
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Film Directors From Kolkata
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengali Hindus
Bengali Hindus ( bn, বাঙ্গালী হিন্দু/বাঙালি হিন্দু, translit=Bāṅgālī Hindu/Bāṅāli Hindu) are an ethnoreligious population who make up the majority in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Jharkhand, and Assam's Barak Valley region. In Bangladesh, they form the largest minority. They are adherents of Hinduism and are native to the Bengal region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent. Comprising about one-thirds of the global Bengali population, they are the second-largest ethnic group among Hindus after Hindustani Hindus. Bengali Hindus speak Bengali, which belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family and adhere to Shaktism (majority, the Kalikula tradition) or Vaishnavism (minority, Gaudiya Vaishnavism and Vaishnava-Sahajiya) of their native religion Hinduism with some regional deities. There are significant numbers of Bengali-speaking Hindus in different Indian states. Aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengali Film Directors
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Megh O Roudra
''Megh o Roudra'' (English: Clouds and Sunshine) is a Bengali drama film directed by Arundhati Devi and produced by Ajitesh Bandopadhyay based on Rabindranath Tagore's short story by the same name. This film was released in 1969 under the banner of K.L. Kapur Productions. Plot This is the story of Shasibhusan, a young lawyer. After completion of study he lives in a village of British India. Very often a little neighborhood girl Giribala comes to his home for learning. Giribala's father is a landlord. Her family marries her off at her childhood. Shashi never express his untold love to Giribala. He is an educated, courageous and law abiding person who always stands for villagers against the oppression of British administrator. But for whom he struggles for justice they betrayed him before the Court. At the time of trial Shashi become frustrated and imprisoned by the judge. When he returns from the jail, meet Giribala. She became a prosperous widow that time. Cast * Swarup Dutta as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chheley Kaar
''Chheley Kaar'' () is a 1954 Indian Bengali-language romantic comedy film directed by Chitta Basu and produced by Charan Chitra. This film received President's Silver Medal in National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali in 1954. The film was remade in Hindi as ''Bandish'' starring Ashok Kumar and Meena Kumari. The film was also remade in Tamil as '' Yaar Paiyyan'' and in Malayalam as ''Bhagyamudra''. Plot Tomato is an orphan lives with his adoptive father. His father is very sick, suffering from a virulent disease, and will die within a few months. He instructed Tomato to take shelter to a rich person, Kunal Sen. Tomato approaches Kunal in a park and calls him as father. Shocked, Kunal tries to escape from the unknown child Tomato, but cannot. After many obstacles and chaos, Kunal and his girlfriend Mili start loving Tomato. Cast * Bikash Roy as Kunal * Bhanu Bannerjee as Monti * Chhabi Biswas as Kunal's father * Arundhati Devi as Mili * Tulsi Chakraborty * Nabadwi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jhinder Bondi
''Jhinder Bondi'' ( bn, ঝিন্দের বন্দী; English: Prisoner of Jhind) is a 1961 Indian Bengali-language historical drama film produced by Bholanath Roy under his banner B.N Productions and directed by the legendary Tapan Sinha, starring Uttam Kumar, Soumitra Chatterjee, Arundhati Devi in lead role and Tarun Kumar Radhamohan Bhattacharya and others playing the supporting roles. Uttam Kumar played duel role in this film. Film music composed by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. The film is regarded as one of the greatest and most iconic Bengali film ever. The film become successful at the box office. The film was based on a novel of same name ঝিন্দের বন্দী written by Saradindu Bandyopadhyay, though the ending has been totally altered from that in the novel, whose base plot was adapted from the 1894 novel ''The Prisoner of Zenda'' by Anthony Hope. The book had already been adapted into English-language films in 1937 and 1952, and later, in 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sister Nivedita
Sister Nivedita ( born Margaret Elizabeth Noble; 28 October 1867 – 13 October 1911) was an Irish teacher, author, social activist, school founder and disciple of Swami Vivekananda. She spent her childhood and early youth in Ireland. She was engaged to marry a Welsh youth, but he died soon after their engagement. Sister Nivedita met Swami Vivekananda in 1895 in London and travelled to Calcutta (present-day Kolkata), India in 1898. Swami Vivekananda gave her the name ''Nivedita'' (meaning "Dedicated to God") when he initiated her into the vow of ''Brahmacharya'' on 25 March 1898. In November 1898, she opened a girls' school in the Bagbazar area of North Calcutta. She wanted to educate girls who were deprived of even basic education. During the plague epidemic in Calcutta in 1899, Nivedita nursed and took care of the poor patients. Nivedita had close associations with the newly established Ramakrishna Mission. Because of her active contribution in the field of Indian Nationali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhagini Nivedita (film)
''Bhagini Nivedita'' is a 1962 Indian Bengali-language biographical film directed by Bijoy Basu. The story was based on the life of Sister Nivedita. It won the Best Feature Film award at the 9th National Film Awards. Cast * Arundhati Devi as Sister Nivedita * Asit Baran * Ajit Banerjee * Shobha Sen Shobha Sen (17 September 1923 – 13 August 2017) (also known as Sova Sen) was Bengali theatre and film actress.Anit Mukerjea (28 June 2004)"A Woman of Grit"Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (From The Statesman (India)) Career After graduating from ... * Dilip Roy * Mumtaz Ahmed Khan as Mr. Wilson * Sunanda Banerjee * Haradhan Bannerjee * Dwiju Bhawal * Premangshu Bose * Amaresh Das References External links * Bengali-language Indian films 1962 films Indian biographical films Films about spirituality Films about Hinduism Sister Nivedita Best Feature Film National Film Award winners 1960s Bengali-language films 1960s biographical films {{1960s-Bengali-fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shiulibari
''Shiulibari'' is a 1962 Bengali film starring Uttam Kumar and Arundhati Devi. The film was released under the banner if Movietalk Private Limited It was a drama movie, directed by Pijush Bose and the screenplay was done by the legendary Tapan Sinha. Story was written by Subodh Ghosh and music was composed by Arundhati himself. Plot Little boy Biju (uttam kumar) was the youngest son of his father. One day Biju went to meet his elder sister and accidentally meets Niru, a little girl and became quite acquainted with her. One day, his father died out of heart attack. While distributing the properties of his father, Biju comes to know that his actual parents have died and that the person whom he thought to be his father is not his parent. Biju was very upset until he left the town and came to a place where there was no inhabitant. He decided to build a colony over there along with the "sautals" living there. The build up nail ?, good and also invited many business man from different ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
