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Mahua Roychoudhury
Mahua Roy Choudhury ( bn, মহুয়া রায় চৌধুরী; 24 September 1958 – 22 July 1985) was an Indian actress who is recognized for her work in Bengali cinema. She is considered to be one of the most successful actresses of Bengali Cinema. She received several awards including a Filmfare Award. She was posthumously conferred with the Best Actress Award for her role in '' Aadmi Aur Aurat'' (1984) at the 5th Damascus International Film Festival in 1987. Personal life Roychoudhury was born on 24 September 1958. Her original name was Shipra Roy Choudhury. Director Tarun Majumdar named her ‘Mahua’. Tarun Majumdar discovered her and Sandhya Roy groomed her. Mahua Roy Choudhury was from a lower-middle-class family of Dum Dum. Her father Nilanjan Roy Chowdhury was a dancer. So from her childhood she had the knack of dancing. She could not pursue her studies due to the economic instability of her family. Meanwhile, she made her acting debut in Tarun Maj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dadar Kirti
''Dadar Kirti'' ( bn, দাদার কীর্তি; ) is a 1980 Bengali romantic drama film directed by Tarun Majumdar. The film was based on an unpublished novel of the same name by Saradindu Bandopadhyay. It stars Tapas Paul, Mahua Roychoudhury, Ayan Banerjee, Debashree Roy, Sandhya Roy, Kali Banerjee, Ruma Guha Thakurta and Anup Kumar. Tapas Paul made his debut with this film. The film attained a huge box office success upon its release and still has a popular following. Plot Kedar Chatujye (Tapas Paul), a dim-witted simpleton, is exiled to his uncle’s house in a small town in Bihar by his father, who is extremely angry with him for being unable to pass his B.A. exams after three attempts. The simple-minded Kedar becomes the butt of all jokes of his cousin Santu's (Ayan Banerjee) gang of friends led by Bhombol Bhattacharjee also known as Bhombolda ( Anup Kumar). He falls in love of Saraswati (Mahua Roychoudhury), a girl with a strong, no-nonsense character who i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaushik Banerjee
Kaushik Banerjee ( bn, কৌশিক ব্যানার্জী) is an Indian actor who is known for his work in Bengali cinema. He has appeared in more than a 100 films throughout his career of four decades. Born to the ace actor Haradhan Bannerjee, he made his acting debut opposite Mahua Roychoudhury in Dinen Gupta's Bengali romantic film ''Priyatama'' (1980). He claimed to fame for his lascivious role as Devendra in Ajoy Kar's ''Bishabriksha'' (1984) which is based on the novel of the same name by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. Since his role as Devendra was much celebrated, he has often been typecast in salacious, negative roles in a number of Bengali films. He collaborated with Aparna Sen in ''Paromitar Ek Din'' (2000), Rituparno Ghosh in ''Shubho Mahurat'' (2003) and '' Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish'' (2012). Personal life He is married to Laboni Sarkar. He has a son, named Susnato Banerjee. Filmography * Priyotama (1979) * Pakadekha (1980) * Dadar kirti, as guest ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paka Dekha
''Paka Dekha'' is a Bengali comedy drama film directed by Arabinda Mukhopadhyay and produced by Mohan Mallick based on a story of Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay in the same name. This film was released in 1980 in the banner of Reba Films. Hemanta Mukhopadhyay scored the music in the film. Plot Aparna's father, a police officer, fixes her marriage of his own choice. Aparna does not agree with her father and she flees from home. Her father arrests Aparna's friends and interrogates them one by one. Cast * Utpal Dutt as Aparna's father * Mahua Roychoudhury as Aparna * Rabi Ghosh * Tarun Kumar Chatterjee * Santosh Dutta * Sobha Sen *Kamu Mukherjee Kamu Mukherjee (14 June 1931 – 6 December 2003) was a Bengali actor, best known for his role as Mandar Bose in ''Sonar Kella'' and Harun in Sandip Ray's first film ''Phatik Chand''. Career Mukherjee's first film appearance was in the 1959 film ... * Haridhan Mukhopadhyay * Koushik Bandyopadhyay * Sambhu Bhattachayra * Reba Debi * N. Bish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kabita
''Kabita'' is a 1977 Indian Bengali-language film directed by Bharat Shumsher, starring Mala Sinha in the lead role. The film is a remake of the Tamil classic film ''Aval Oru Thodar Kathai'' (1974) where Kamal Haasan had a supporting role as a neighbor. He played the same role in the Bengali remake, thus his only foray into Bengali film industry. He also acted in the Telugu remake ''Anthuleni Katha'' (1976) with Jaya Prada, playing a different role as her boss and suitor. He also did a guest role in another remake, the Kannada film ''Benkiyalli Aralida Hoovu'' (1983) with his real-life niece Suhasini playing the lead role. The only remake he didn't appear in is the Hindi film ''Jeevan Dhaara'' (1982) starring Rekha. Cast * Mala Sinha as Kabita Ray * Kamal Haasan as Gopal Menon * Ranjit Mallick * Anil Chatterjee * Samit Bhanja * Mahua Roychoudhury * Sandhya Roy * Bikash Ray * Sulata Chowdhury * Satindra Bhattacharya * Bankim Ghosh * Kamu Mukhopadhyay * Shamita Biswas * Bimal De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sei Chokh
''Sei Chokh'' is a Bengali romantic drama film directed by Salil Dutta based on a story on Bengali novelist Bimal Mitra. The film was released 30 July 1976 under the banner of Gitali Pictures. Nachiketa Ghosh was the music director of Sei Chokh. Plot Nabakrishna's uncle Prankrishna bring back him to their home from a mental home. Before that Nabakrishna lives like a free bird, always had his way with women and being kind hearted he always gifted them. He can not bear restrictions imposed by his uncle and aunts, he soon escapes with his servant Bipul. They don't have any place to stay hence Nabakrishna goes to Mrs. Nandi's home. Nita, Mrs. Nandi's niece is a simple girl who loved Amal against her aunts will, but Mrs. Nandi plans to separate them and fixes Nita's marriage with Nabakrishna. Hearing the news of the marriage another lady Malati rushes to cancel the marriage because she was Nabakrishna's ex lover. By this time Nita's lover Amal also returns. Cast * Uttam Kumar as Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shriman Prithviraj
''Shriman Prithviraj'' ( bn, শ্রীমান পৃথ্বীরাজ; ) is a 1973 Indian Bengali romantic comedy film starring Ayan Banerjee and Mahua Roy Choudhury, and directed by Tarun Majumdar, featuring teenage love. It has a cult following. This is essentially a comedy with Tom Sawyeresque leanings laced elegantly into the fabric of Bengal of the late 19th or early 20th century. In the subtle backdrop of the Indian freedom movement, it is the story of the transformation of a young boy's innocent but naughty childhood to an appreciation of the Swadeshi movement and the growth of adolescent love for a girl even younger than him. The comic appeal of the film is natural and free-flowing. It includes a number of beautifully rendered traditional Bengali songs and is punctuated by a series of stand-offs faced by the young boy, mostly with unfavourable results for the opposing party. At heart, it is a beautiful pre-pubescent/adolescent love story. It was a huge box-office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Lists
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengali Language
Bengali ( ), generally known by its endonym Bangla (, ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of South Asia. It is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and the second most widely spoken of the 22 scheduled languages of India. With approximately 300 million native speakers and another 37 million as second language speakers, Bengali is the List of languages by number of native speakers, fifth most-spoken native language and the List of languages by total number of speakers, seventh most spoken language by total number of speakers in the world. Bengali is the fifth most spoken Indo-European language. Bengali is the official language, official and national language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. Within India, Bengali is the official language of the states of West Bengal, Tripura and the Barak Valley region of the state of Assam. It is also a second official lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amol Palekar
Amol Palekar (born 24 November 1944) is an Indian actor, director and producer of Hindi and Marathi cinema. Career Palekar studied fine arts at the Sir JJ School of Arts, Mumbai, and commenced his artistic career as a painter. As a painter, he had seven one-man exhibitions and participated in many group shows. However, Palekar is better known as a stage and film actor. He has been active in the avant garde theatre in India in Marathi and Hindi theatre as an actor, director and producer since 1967. His contribution to the modern Indian theatre is often overshadowed by his popularity as a lead actor in Hindi films. As a film actor, he was most prominent in the 1970s. His image as a "boy next door" contrasted with the larger-than-life heroes prevalent at that time in Indian cinema. He received one Filmfare award and six State awards as Best Actor. His performances in regional language films in Marathi, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada fetched him critical acclaim as well. He decided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tapan Sinha
Tapan Sinha (2 October 1924 – 15 January 2009) was one of the most prominent Indian film directors of his time forming a legendary quartet with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen. He was primarily a Bengali filmmaker who worked both in Hindi cinema and Bengali cinema, directing films like '' Kabuliwala'' (1957), ''Louha-Kapat'', ''Sagina Mahato'' (1970), ''Apanjan'' (1968), ''Kshudhita Pashan'' and children's film ''Safed Haathi'' (1978) and ''Aaj Ka Robinhood''. Sinha started his career in 1946, as a sound engineer with New Theatres film production house in Kolkata, then in 1950 left for England where he worked at Pinewood Studios for next two years, before returning home to start his six decade long career in Indian cinema, making films in Bengali, Hindi and Oriya languages, straddling genres from social realism, family drama, labor rights, to children's fantasy films. He was one of the acclaimed filmmakers of Parallel Cinema movement of India. Personal life and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandhya Roy
Sandhya Roy is an Indian actress and politician. She is known for her work in Bengali cinema. She is the recipient of BFJA Award for three times, and one Filmfare Awards East best actress for '' Ganadevata''. Roy made her cinematic debut with Rajen Tarafdar's ''Antariksha'' (1957). Political career In 2014, she contested a seat in the Lok Sabha election for the All India Trinamool Congress and won the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Medinipur constituency and became a member of the Parliament of India. Filmography * '' Ganga'' (1960) * ''Maya Mriga'' (1960) * ''Kathin Maya'' (1961) * ''Arghya'' a.k.a. ''Offering to the Gods'' (1961) * '' Subha Dristi'' a.k.a. ''Holy Meeting of Eyes'' (1962) * ''Rakta Palash'' (1962) * ''Nav Diganta'' a.k.a. '' New Horizon'' (1962) * ''Dhoop Chhaya'' a.k.a. '' Sunlight and Shade'' (1962) * '' Bandhan'' (1962) * ''Asli-Naqli'' (1962) * ''Palatak'' (1963) * '' Bhrantibilas'' (1963) * '' Pooja Ke Phool'' (1964) * '' Surya Tapa'' a.k.a. '' Blessed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabitri Chatterjee
Sabitri Chatterjee (born 22 February 1937) is an Indian actress who is known for her work in Bengali theatre and cinema. Her career spans more than 60 years. She is the recipient of BFJA Awards for two times. In 1999, she was conferred with Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Acting in Bengali theatre. In 2013, she was awarded by the Government of West Bengal its highest civilian award; the Banga Bibhushan. In 2014, Government of India conferred upon her its fourth-highest civilian award the Padma Shri. She was born in Comilla, in British India (now in Bangladesh). During the partition of Bengal, she was sent to the safety of an older, married sister's house in Kolkata located at Tollygunge. At her teenage she got noticed by Bhanu Banerjee who took her to Uttar Sarathi group theatre for a role in their play ''Natun Ihudi''. Later she emerged as a prominent thespian personality for the titular role in the play ''Shyamali'' which was staged at Star Theatre. She made her big screen d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
