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Parashuram (1979 Film)
''Parashuram'' ( bn, পরশুরাম; English title The Man with the Axe) is a 1979 Bengali drama film directed by Mrinal Sen. It was entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. Cast * Arun Mukherjee as Parashuram (as Arun Mukhopadhyay) * Bibhas Chakraborty * Sreela Majumdar as Alhadi * Samaresh Banerjee (as Samaresh Bandyopadhyay) * Jayanta Bhattacharya as Beggar * Reba Roy Chowdhury * Sujal Roy Chowdhury (as Sajal Roy Chowdhury) * Arati Das * Anuradha Debi (as Anuradha Deb) * Radharani Devi Radharani Devi (bn:''রাধারাণী দেবী'') was one of the prominent Bengali women poets of the twentieth century. Literary career Her first published work was the short story ''Bimata'' (Step-Mother) which was published in ... * Shailen Ganguli (as Shailen Gangopadhyay) References External links * 1979 films 1979 drama films 1970s Bengali-language films Bengali-language Indian films Indian drama f ... [...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] |
Arati Das
Arati Das (1944 – 6 February 2020), known professionally as Miss Shefali, was an Indian Bengali actress and dancer who was recognized for her work in Bengali cinema. She had worked with film director Satyajit Ray in classics like Pratidwandi and Seemabaddha. She is known as the Queen of Cabaret. Early life and background Arati Das was the youngest of three sisters from a Bengali Hindu family of Narayanganj, East Bengal (now in Bangladesh) which migrated to India during the Partition of Bengal. She started performing cabaret at the age of 11 at Firpo's hotel and later in the Grand Hotel to earn for her family and then there was no looking back. Career Arati Das had made her film debut in Bengali film named ''Chowringhee'', in which she acts with actors like Supriya Devi, Uttam Kumar, Utpal Dutt Utpal Dutta () (29 March 1929 – 19 August 1993) was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright. He was primarily an actor in Bengali theatre, where he became a pio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Mrinal Sen
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 sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Drama Films
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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] |
1970s Bengali-language Films
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1979 Drama Films
Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ''Chiquitita'' to commemorate the event. ** The United States and the People's Republic of China establish full Sino-American relations, diplomatic relations. ** Following a deal agreed during 1978, France, French carmaker Peugeot completes a takeover of American manufacturer Chrysler's Chrysler Europe, European operations, which are based in United Kingdom, Britain's former Rootes Group factories, as well as the former Simca factories in France. * January 7 – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: The People's Army of Vietnam and Vietnamese-backed Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation, Cambodian insurgents announce the fall of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and the collapse of the Pol Pot regime. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge retreat west to an area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 Films
The year 1979 in film involved many significant events. Highest-grossing films United States and Canada The top ten 1979 released films by North American gross are as follows: International Major events * March 2 – Buena Vista release their first film since the advent of U.S. movie ratings to not be G-rated, '' Take Down''. * March 5 – Production begins on ''The Empire Strikes Back''. * March – Frank Price becomes president of Columbia Pictures. * May 25 – ''Alien'', a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released. * May 29 - Mary Pickford, a silent screen legend and Hollywood pioneer who was, at the height of her career, the most famous woman in the world, dies of a stroke. * May 31 – ''The Muppet Movie'', Jim Henson's Muppets' first foray into the world of feature-length motion pictures, is released in United Kingdom. * June 11 – John Wayne, a famous Western movie actor, dies at the age of 72 from stomach cancer. * June 29 – '' Moonraker'', the 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radharani Devi
Radharani Devi (bn:''রাধারাণী দেবী'') was one of the prominent Bengali women poets of the twentieth century. Literary career Her first published work was the short story ''Bimata'' (Step-Mother) which was published in Basumati in 1924. Her first essay was ''Purush'' (The Male) which was published in Kallol. Her first book of collected poems, ''Lilakamal'' was published in 1929. She wrote her second book ''Buker Beena'' under the penname of ''Aparajita Devi''. After that she penned her third book of poem collections ''Bono Bohogi'' and the forth one, ''Bichitra Rupini'' both under her real name. Devi was famous for her debate with Pramatha Chodhury in the Bengal writer's circuit ''Rabi Basar'', where her enrolment as the first ever women member was initially opposed by Sarat Chandra Chattapadhyay but later was welcomed in the mediation of Jaladhar Sen. She was known to be fighting for women's rights in the Bengali literary arena during the twentieth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anuradha Debi , disciple and cousin of Gautama Buddha
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Anuradha may refer to: Film * ''Anuradha'' (1940 film), a 1940 Bollywood film * ''Anuradha'' (1960 film), a 1960 Hindi-language film * ''Anuradha'' (1967 film), a 1967 Indian Kannada film * ''Anuradha'' (2014 film), a 2014 Bollywood drama film * ''Anuradha'' (2015 film), an Assamese language film Other * Anuradha (name), a given name and surname * Anuradha (nakshatra), lunar mansion in Hindu astrology * Anuradha (actress), a Bollywood actress See also * Anuruddha Anuruddha ( pi, Anuruddhā) was one of the ten principal disciples and a cousin of Gautama Buddha. Early years Anuruddha was the son of Amitodana and brother to Mahanama and princess Rohini (Buddha's disciple). Since Amitodana was the broth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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