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Moner Mayur
''Moner Mayur'' was a Bengali drama film directed by Sushil Majumdar based on a story of Bengali novelist Protiva Bose. This movie was released in 1954 under the banner of Rama Chhayachitra Ltd. The music direction was done by Satyajit Majumdar. This movie stars Uttam Kumar, Bharati Devi, Kanu Banerjee, Tulsi Chakraborty and Bhanu Bannerjee in the lead roles. Plot Cast * Uttam Kumar * Kanu Banerjee * Tulsi Chakraborty * Bhanu Bannerjee * Bikash Roy * Jahor Roy * Bharati Devi * Ajit Chatterjee * Nripati Chattopadhyay * Chandrabati Devi Chandrabati Devi (19 October 190929 April 1992) was an Indian actress who appeared in Hindi as well as Bengali cinema. She is best known for her role as Chandramukhi in the 1935 cult classic ''Devdas''. Chandrabati Devi made her film debut in ... * Krishnadhan Mukherjee * Suprava Mukherjee References External links * 1954 films Bengali-language Indian films 1954 drama films 1950s Bengali-language films Indian drama fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protiva Bose
Protiva Bose (also spelled Pratibha Basu; bn, প্রতিভা বসু) (March 13, 1915 – 13 October 2006) was a singer and one of the most prolific and widely read Bengali writers of novels, short stories, and essays. Biography She was born in a village near Dhaka in 1915 to Asutosh Shome and Sarajubala Shome. She was known as Ranu Shome before she married the Bengali writer, Buddhadev Bose in 1934. She had two daughters, Meenakshi Dutta and Damayanti Basu Singh, and a son, Suddhasil Bose, who died at the age of 42. One of her granddaughters, Kankabati Dutta, is also a well-known writer in Bengali. Bose was also a singer of popular songs. She was a pupil of Ustad Gul Mohammad Khan. The poet Nazrul Islam, singer Dilip Kumar Roy, and Rabindranath Tagore admired her voice and taught her their own songs. She made her first LP at the age of 12 and continued until the 1940s, when she gave up singing and started writing. Bose has written 200 books, all of which have been c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajit Chatterjee
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Ajit, Ajith or Ajeet may refer to: * Ajit (given name), an Indian masculine given name (including a list of persons with the name) * ''Ajit'' (newspaper), an Indian Punjabi daily newspaper * Ajit Khan (born 1922), an Indian Hindi film actor * Ajith Kumar (born 1971), an Indian Tamil film actor * Ajith Rajapakse (born 1974), a Sri Lankan politician * ''Ajith'' (film), a 2014 Indian Kannada film * HAL Ajeet, an Indian jet fighter plane * ''Ajit'', an alternative name of the future Buddha Maitreya See also * Ajita (other) Ajita, Ajitha or Ajeeta may refer to: * ''Ajita'', an alternative name of the future Buddha Maitreya * ''Ajita'', a name applied to various mythological figures, including Shiva, Vishnu and Ajitanatha * Ajit (given name), an Indian masculine given n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s Bengali-language Films
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1954 Drama Films
Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 member radio stations. * January 21 – The first nuclear-powered submarine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengali-language Indian Films
Bengali ( ), generally known by its endonym Bangla (, ), is an 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 fifth most-spoken native language and the 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 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 language of the Indian state of Jharkhand since September 2011. It is the most widely spoken language in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 Films
Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – 1954 Blons avalanches, Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau rebellion, Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chandrabati Devi
Chandrabati Devi (19 October 190929 April 1992) was an Indian actress who appeared in Hindi as well as Bengali cinema. She is best known for her role as Chandramukhi in the 1935 cult classic ''Devdas''. Chandrabati Devi made her film debut in a 1929 silent film ''Piyari'' and was catapulted to stardom after she portrayed the role of Meera in Debaki Bose's cult classic ''Meerabai'' (1933). Filmography * ''Ami Ratan'' (1979) * ''Praner Thakur Ramkrishna'' (1977) as Bhairabi Maa * ''Rodanbhara Basanta'' (1974) * ''Kayahiner Kahini'' (1973) * ''Agnibhramar'' (1973) * ''Ami Sirajer Begam'' (1973) * ''Bigyan O Bidhata'' (1973) * ''Chhinnapatra'' (1972) * ''Naya Michhil'' (1972) * ''Jiban Jigyasa'' (1971) * ''Atattar Din Pare'' (1971) * ''Fariyad'' (1971) * '' Rajkanya'' (1965) * ''Kantatar'' (1964) * '' Sakher Chor'' (1960) * ''Raja Saja'' (1960) * ''Indradhanu'' (1960) * '' Bicharak'' (1959) * ''Marutirtha Hinglaj'' (1959) as Jogini Maa * ''Deep Jwele Jai'' (1959) * ''E Jahar Se Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nripati Chattopadhyay
Nripati Nath Chttopadhyay ( bn, নৃপতি নাথ চট্টোপাধ্যায়; born 1907 – 27 May 1975) was a Bengali actor, known for his role in ''Teen Kanya'' (1961), ''Bhanu Pelo Lottery'' (1958) and ''Dui Bari'' (1963). He died on 27 May 1975 in India. Early life Nripati Chattopadhyay was born in British India at Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos .... His father's name was Bhupati Chattopadhyay. His nickname was Prahu. Chatterjee completed his schooling from Narayanganj High School. His first film was Dipantar. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chattopadhyay, Nripati Indian male film actors Bengali male actors 1907 births 1975 deaths Male actors in Bengali cinema 20th-cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jahor Roy
Jahar Roy (19 September 1919 – 1 August 1977) was an Indian actor and comedian in Bengali cinema. He was known for his comedy films with Bhanu Bandyopadhyay. Early life Roy came from a Bengali Baidya family having its root in Mahilara, Barisal District (of the present Bangladesh). His father Satya Roy was also an actor and later moved to Patna, in search of livelihood. It is here where Jahar Roy completed his studies and started working on odd jobs such as proof reader, medical representative and finally a tailor. He left all these and came to Calcutta around 1946. Movie career Roy earned a substantial fan following even though he was a character actor. And all thanks to his roly-poly build, he was a frequent choice of directors who wanted to add comedy to serious movies. Roy's first major film roles were in ''Purbarag'' directed by Ardhendu Mukherjee, and in ''Anjangarh'' (1948) directed by Bimal Roy. Among his countless performances are Dhanyee Meye, Chadmabeshi and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uttam Kumar
Uttam Kumar ( bn, উত্তম কুমার; born Arun Kumar Chattopadhyay; 3 September 1926 – 24 July 1980), popularly known as the Mahanayak, was an Indian actor, producer, director, Screenwriter, script writer, composer, and singer who predominantly worked in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. Kumar was one of the most successful actors in Bengali cinema history. Kumar's career spanned three decades, from the late 1940s until his death in 1980. He appeared in over 200 films. Some of his best known films are ''Agni Pariksha (1954 film), Agni Pariksha'', ''Harano Sur'', ''Bicharak'', ''Saptapadi (1961 film), Saptapadi'', ''Jhinder Bandi'', ''Sesh Anka'', ''Deya Neya'', ''Lal Pathore'', ''Jatu Griha'', ''Thana Theke Aschi'', ''Chowringhee'', ''Nayak (1966 film), Nayak'', ''Antony Firingee (film), Antony Firingee'', ''Amanush (1975 film), Amanush'', ''Bagh Bondi Khela'' and ''Chiriyakhana'' (1967). Early life Arun Kumar Chattopadhyay was born on 3 September 1926 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
