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Bengal Film Journalists' Association – Best Screenplay Award
Here is a list of the award winners and the films for which they won. See also * Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards * Cinema of India The Cinema of India consists of motion pictures produced in India, which had a large effect on world cinema since the late 20th century. Major centers of film production across the country include Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Ko ... External links * https://web.archive.org/web/20080229010408/http://www.bfjaawards.com/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Bengal Film Journalists' Association - Best Screenplay Award Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anjan Das
Anjan Das (17 November 1949 – 2 June 2014) was a critically acclaimed Indian film director. He was known for creating "Poetry on Celluloid", a tag that was designated by the critics post his lyrical masterpiece ''Saanjhbatir Roopkathara'' (''Strokes & Silhouettes'', 2002). He was awarded with National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare for ''Faltu'' (''The Saga of Ranirghat'', 2006). His films have won numerous Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards and were regularly showcased at A-list film festivals all over the world. Career Winner of two national awards and multiple international awards, Das started his film career in the mid-1970s with two documentaries named ''The Art of Anant Malakar'' and ''Tripura''. His first feature was ''Sainik'' (''Soldier''). The film was shown at various international film festivals, including Berlinale, in 1976. Other festivals were Mannheim, Tehran and Kraków in countries like Mongolia and Yugoslavia, and it was invited to San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partha Banerjee
Dr. Partha Banerjee is a human rights activist, writer, educator, public speaker, media critic, and musician. Born and raised in Kolkata (Calcutta), Banerjee now lives in New York with frequent visits to India. Biography Banerjee spent the first half of his life in India, and the second half in the U.S. Life in India Banerjee grew up in Calcutta (now Kolkata). His father Jitendra Nath Banerjee (1924-2017) was a grassroots political organizer in Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its erstwhile political wing Bharatiya Jana Sangh (now Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP). Banerjee received his first training in political organizing from his father while with RSS, and later by his maternal uncle Buddhadev Bhattacharjee who belonged to Congress Party. Banerjee quit RSS out of ideological disillusionment with the organization's militant, fundamentalist doctrine, yet without disavowing his deep roots in ecumenical and secular Hinduism. In 1985, Banerjee came to USA as an international ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subir Mukherjee
Subir is a town in the Dang District of the southern part of Gujarat state in India. It is located on the Ahwa-Nawapur Road about 27 km from Ahwa. Its population consist of Mavchis, Warlis and Konkanis The Konkan people ( Konkani) Konkanis : are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group native to the Konkan region of the Indian subcontinent who speak various dialects of the Konkani language. Konkani is the state language of Goa and also spoken b ... who live upon forest labour. References Cities and towns in Dang district, India {{Dang-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faltu
''Faltu'' ( bn, ফালতু, translation: "Useless") is a Bengali movie based on Syed Mustafa Siraj's story ''Ranir Ghater Brittanto''. It was released in 2006. It won the 2007 National Award. Produced by Arindam Chaudhuri (Planman Motion Pictures) and directed by Anjan Das, the movie featured Soumitra Chatterjee, Indrani Halder, Yash Pandit, Pradip Mukherjee and Manjari Fadnis, Nirmal Kumar, Masood Akhtar, and Biplab Chatterjee. It had been selected from India for the Spain film festival in the competitive category. Plot The story is set around Ranirghat of Murshidabad District in West Bengal in the early 1950s. It is the story of a 20-year-old orphan called Faltu (faltu in Bengali means worthless, junk) and his search for the man who has fathered him. This is also the account of a village and its people, woven around a narrative with myriad moments and a lot of dramatic events. Ranirghat is a village made up of refugees from the then East Pakistan. (Its current popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandip Ray
Sandip Ray (born 8 September 1953) is an Indian film director and music director who mainly works in Bengali cinema. He is the only child of the famous Bengali director Satyajit Ray and Bijoya Ray. Life and education Sandip Ray was born in Calcutta. Initially schooled at the South Point School and the Patha Bhavan, Kolkata, he subsequently attended the University of Calcutta. Career Ray started his professional career in film at the age of 24 as assistant director on the sets of his father's film ''Shatranj Ke Khilari'' (''The Chess Players'', 1977). Prior to this, he had aided his father in various capacities including still photographer on set. His own directorial debut was ''Phatik Chand'' (1983) based on Satyajit Ray's Fatik Chand – the film received an award in the International Children's Film Festival in Vancouver. Sandip Ray is also a noted photographer. He was the director of photography on Satyajit Ray's last three films, ''Ganashatru'' (''An Enemy of the Peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nishijapon
''Nishijapon'' ( bn, নিশিযাপন, After the Night... Dawn) (2005) is a Bengali film directed by Sandip Ray, based on a novel of the same name by Narayan Gangopadhyay. Synopsis Bimal (Soumitra Chatterjee) is visited by his family and his friend in his Darjeeling house. Anita (Rituparna Sengupta), his elder son Nirmal's wife, takes good care of them, spending most of her time in the kitchen. Brojen (Deepankar De), the managing director of a tea estate and Bimal's friend, irritates everyone, especially Nirmal (Sabyasachi Chakrabarty), with his stories of his guru's miracles and his over-enthusiasm for food. Anita keeps trying to convince Shyamal (Parambrata Chatterjee), her brother-in-law and Sunita (Raima Sen), to see each other. Shyamal and Sunita grow to like each other and Anita enthusiastically declares the alliance to Bimal. Meanwhile, torrential rain makes it impossible for Ram, the servant, to get much food from the nearly closed market. That night the rain s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sekhar Das
Sekhar Das ( bn, শেখর দাশ; alternately spelled Shekhar Das) is a Bengali film/theatre director, scriptwriter/playwright, actor and producer. He has three award-winning feature films to his credit. ''Jogajog'' (Relationships) based on Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore's classic novel has been his 11th feature film, of which four features were made for television release and others for theatre release. He also made over 20 short films for Television and umpteen nos of documentaries and travelogue. Das also teaches film/drama as invited faculty;writes on his subject for different magazines. He served as a jury in different film festivals in India and abroad. Resigning from a highly successful corporate career in 1997, Sekhar started his professional career in films and television, although he earned highest reputation as an actor par excellence but preferred writing scripts in the initial stage of his career, one of which, namely, Prohor won the national and Internati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahulbonir Sereng
''Mahulbonir Sereng'' ( bn, মেহুলবনীর সেরেঙ্গ ''Songs of Mahulbonir'' or ''Tribal song Mahulbonir'') is a 2004 Bengali film directed by Sekhar Das based on a same name story of Tapan Bandyopadhyay This film was released at 13th Brisbane International Film Festival 2004 and 19 April 2005 at Filmfest DC in Washington, D.C. Plot The story is a narrative revolving around the love triangle of Aghore ( Pijush Ganguly), with his wife Saheli (Chandrayee Ghosh) and Dr. Alaktak Roy (Silajit Majumder). Aghore is a police constable who works in a different place so he often stays out of hometown, in the meantime his wife Saheli gets closer with the new young doctor of their village. When Aghore came back, he get the news the Saheli is pregnant, he becomes very happy. But all of villagemen claim that the baby is the doctor's and not Aghore's. Though Aghore tries to argue in favour of his wife and doctor but the village head calls 'Gira' by gram Panchayet (Jud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombaiyer Bombete (film)
''Bombaiyer Bombete'' ( bn, বোম্বাইয়ের বোম্বেটে) is a 2003 Indian Bengali thriller film directed by Sandip Ray and based on the story of the same name by his father Satyajit Ray. It was the third big screen adaptation of the fictional detective character Feluda after 25 years of the second Feluda movie '' Joi Baba Felunath'' (1979), which was directed by Satyajit Ray. It was the first big screen adaptation of the Feluda new film series (Continuation of the original series) though Sabyasachi played Feluda in all the ten TV films of Feluda TV film series (1996-2000) directed by Sandip Ray. The movie was a sequel to the ''Doctor Munshir Diary'', the last television film of Feluda TV film series (1996-2000), which was a sequel series to the Satyajit Ray's Feluda film series (1974-1979). Previously, Feluda was played by Soumitra Chatterjee in two films ''Sonar Kella'' (1974) and '' Joi Baba Felunath'' (1979), directed by Satyajit Ray. Firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mrinal Sen
Mrinal Sen (''Beng.'' মৃণাল সেন; 14 May 1923 – 30 December 2018) was an Indian film director, and screenwriter known for his work primarily in Bengali, and few Hindi and Telugu language films. Regarded as one of the finest Indian filmmakers, along with his contemporaries Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Tapan Sinha, Sen played major role in the New Wave cinema of eastern India. Sen has received various national and international honors including eighteen Indian National Film Awards. The Government of India honored him with the Padma Bhushan, and the Government of France honored him with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, while Russian Government honored him with the Order of Friendship. Sen was also awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest award for filmmakers in India. He was one of the few Indian filmmakers having won awards at the big three film festivals viz., Cannes, Venice and the Berlinale. Sen was a self described "private Marxist". Influenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aamar Bhuban
''Aamar Bhuvan'' is a 2002 Bengali film directed by Mrinal Sen. The film depicts a place of India where people live peacefully and love each other despite the hatred and violence that scars the rest of the nation. For this film director Mrinal Sen won best director's award in Cairo Film Festival in 2002. Plot The script is based on the novel 'Dhanjyotsna' written by Afsar Amed. After Sakhina and Nur's divorce, Sakhina has remarried Meher; a man who loves her but has difficulty providing for them and their three children. Nur went on to the Middle East and came back a rich man. He has remarried. Nur and Meher are cousins and Nur tries to help Meher (and Sakhina) by giving him work and lending him money. But when he returns Sakhina's prized nose-ring, which he had given her secretly during their marriage and not taken back during the divorce, and which Meher later pawned for some money, Sakhina is insulted and hurt. Cast * Nandita Das as Sakhina * Kaushik Sen as Meher * Saswa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards
Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards commonly referred as BFJA Awards, is given by The Bengal Film Journalists' Association. The BFJA is the oldest association of film critics in India, founded in 1937 to serve the developing film journalism and film industry. Overview Members of the association are drawn from the film section of the entire press of West Bengal composed of dailies, periodicals and film journals in various languages published from Kolkata. Film correspondents and critics working for any newspaper or periodicals published outside Bengal having their base in Kolkata were also eligible to be members of this association. The association was the first to institute awards in an endeavor to promote and encourage the production of better films, when in 1938, a year after its inception, the 1st Motion Picture Congress was held in Faridpur (now in Bangladesh). Representatives of the association played a vital role in its deliberations. In 1952 when India staged the Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
