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Srimaan 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] |
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] |
Chinmoy Roy
Chinmoy Roy (1940–2019) was an Indian Bengali male actor. He was famous for his comic roles in Bengali movies, though his versatility has allowed him to play a variety of roles. Though he was known for portraying various character roles, Roy was equally at ease in portraying the famous fictional character Tenida on screen. He held his own among prominent performers like Soumitra Chatterjee, Robi Ghose and Tarun Kumar in the comedies ''Basanto Bilap'', ''Dhonni Meye'', and ''Nanigopaler Biye''. He was also seen in a small role in Satyajit Ray's '' Goopy Gyne o Bagha Byne'', in which he portrayed a spy working for the Minister of Halla. Roy had to contend with chronic health problems. Nonetheless, he had been working on a script for a film called ''Sudama- The Half Man''. The film is directed by Indo-Australian director Rajib Ball, and Roy also planned on working on a few more scripts with the same director. Death Roy died at the age of 79 in Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 Films
The year 1972 in film involved several significant events. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1972 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Awards Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): :''The Working Class Goes to Heaven'' (''La classe operaia va in paradiso''), directed by Elio Petri, Italy :''The Mattei Affair'' (''Il Caso Mattei''), directed by Francesco Rosi, Italy Berlin Film Festival, Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): :''The Canterbury Tales (film), The Canterbury Tales'' (''I Racconti di Canterbury''), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy / France 1972 Wide-release movies American films of 1972, United States unless stated January–March April–June July–September October–December Notable films released in 1972 American films of 1972, United States unless stated # *''The 14 Amazons'' (Shi si nu ying hao), directed by Cheng Kang, starring Lisa Lu, Lily Ho (actress), Lily Ho, Ivy Ling Po. (Hong Kong films of 1972 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aarti Mukherjee
Aarti Mukherjee, also known as Aarti Mukherji or Arati Mukhopadhyay, is an Indian playback singer who has sung in Hindi films such as '' Geet Gata Chal'' (1975), ''Tapasya'' (1976), ''Manokamana'', '' Masoom'' (1983) and ''Sooraj Mukhi'' (1992). Early life Mukherjee was born in Dhaka, Undivided India, to a Bengali family. Her family migrated to West Bengal, India. Her Bengali family had a rich cultural and musical heritage. She was introduced to music by her mother. She studied under Shri Susheel Banerjee, Ustaad Mohammed Sagiruddin Khan, Pandit Chinmoy Lahiri, Pandit Laxman Prasad Jaipurwale and Pandit Ramesh Nadkarni. Career In Bangla TV show ''Dadagiri'' she reflected on her early days. She stated that she sang on the ''All India Music Talent Programme'' in 1955 at age 14 or 15. She was trained in Indian Classical Music from a young age. She sang primarily for Bengali films. She won the music contest, "Metro-Murphy Contest" whose judges were music directors including Anil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar () (born as Hema Mangeshkar; 28 September 1929 – 06 February 2022) was an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer. She is widely considered to have been the greatest and most influential singers in India. Her contribution to the Indian music industry in a career spanning eight decades gained her honorific titles such as the "Queen of Melody", "Nightingale of India", and "Voice of the Millennium". Lata recorded songs in over thirty-six Indian languages and a few foreign languages, though primarily in Marathi, Hindi, and Bengali. Her foreign languages included English, Indonesian, Russian, Dutch, Nepali, and Swahili. She received several accolades and honors throughout her career. In 1989, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award was bestowed on her by the Government of India. In 2001, in recognition of her contributions to the nation, she was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour; she is only the second female singer, after M. S. Subbulakshmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarun Banerjee
Tarun or Tharun is a word from Sanskrit. It is a male given name, meaning "young male". Notable people with the given name Tarun include: * Tarun (Telugu actor) (born 1981), Indian actor in Telugu and Tamil cinema * Tarun Arora, Indian actor in Hindi cinema * Tarun Bhattacharya, Indian musician * Tarun Bose (born 1928), Indian actor in Hindi cinema * Tarun Chandra or Tarun, Indian actor in Kannada cinema * Tarun Dey, Indian footballer * Tarun Gogoi (born 1936), Indian politician * Tarun Gopi, Indian film director in Tamil cinema * Tarun Khanna (born 1968), Indian-born American author and economic strategist * Tarun Khiwal (born 1967), Indian fashion photographer * Tarun Majumdar or Tarun Mazumdar (born 1931), Indian film director in Bengali cinema * Tarun Mandal (born 1959), Indian politician * Tarun Mansukhani, Indian film director in Hindi cinema * Tarun Nethula (born 1983), Indian-born New Zealand cricketer * Tarun Ram Phukan (1877–1939), Indian politician * Tarun Shatriya, Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kavita Krishnamurthi
Sharada Krishnamurthy, popularly known as Kavita Krishnamurthy or Kavita Subramaniam, is an Indian playback and classical singer. She has recorded 50,000 songs in 45 various Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali language, Bengali, Kannada, Rajasthani language, Rajasthani, Bhojpuri language, Bhojpuri, Telugu language, Telugu, Odia language, Odia, Marathi language, Marathi, English language, English, Urdu, Tamil language, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati language, Gujarati, Nepali language, Nepali, Assamese language, Assamese, Konkani, Punjabi language, Punjabi and other languages. She is the recipient of four Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer, Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer Awards (winning consecutively during 1995–1997), and the Padma Shri Awards (2000–2009), Padmashri which she received in 2005. She was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy, Doctorate Honoris causa, (Honoris Causa) for her contributions to Indian music by Bangalore-based Jain University in 2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of ''Gitanjali'', he became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore was known by sobriquets: Gurudev, Kobiguru, Biswakobi. A Bengali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Burdwan district* * * and Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gauriprasanna Mazumder
Gauriprasanna Majumdar (1925–1986) was an Indian lyricist and writer, known for his work in Indian cinema and Bangladeshi Cinema . He is most commonly associated with the black and white era of Bengali cinema, when he penned several enduring classics for films. He won the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards for best lyricist for Swaralipi (1962), Palatak (1964), Anthony Firingee (1968), Bon Palashir Padabali (1974), Sanyasi Raja (1976) and Anurager Chhoan (1987, posthumously). He also won National Film Awards of Bangladesh for Sesh Porjonto (1969). Career Majumdar was a contemporary of Nachiketa Ghosh, Robin Chattopadhyay, Hemanta Mukherjee, Uttam Kumar, and Kishore Kumar, and worked extensively with R D Burman and Kishore Kumar, Manna De. His works include ''Mago Vabna keno'', ''. Legacy On 12 February 2011, the 25th anniversary of his death, a musical evening was organized to pay tribute, held at Nazrul Mancha, Kolkata. Lopamudra, Shaan, Bappi Lahiri, Srik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemanta Mukhopadhyay
Hemanta Mukhopadhyay (16 June 1920 – 26 September 1989), known professionally as Hemant Kumar and Hemanta Mukherjee, was a legendary Indian music composer and playback singer who primarily sang in Bengali and Hindi, as well as other Indian languages like Marathi, Gujarati, Odia, Assamese, Tamil, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Konkani, Sanskrit and Urdu. He was an artist of Bengali and Hindi film music, Rabindra Sangeet, and many other genres. He was the recipient of two National Awards for Best Male Playback Singer and was popularly known as the "voice of God". He Completed his B.E & M.Tech Engineering Degree from Jadavpur University. Early life and education Hemanta was born in Varanasi, in the house of his maternal grandfather who was a physician. His paternal family originated from the town of Jaynagar Majilpur, and migrated to Kolkata in the early 1900s. Hemanta grew up and attended the Nasiruddin School and later the Mitra Institution school in the Bhowanipore area, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tapen Chatterjee
Tapen Chatterjee (3 September 1937 – 24 May 2010) was a Bengali actor from India who played several roles in Satyajit Ray's films, notably as Goopy Gyne in ''Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne'' (1968), and its sequels '' Heerak Rajar Deshe'' (1980) and ''Goopy Bagha Phire Elo'' (1991). Chatterjee died on 24 May 2010 at the age of 72. He was suffering from pulmonary ailments. Career As a qualified engineer, Chatterjee had a job in Rajasthan, following which he came back to Kolkata and joined ''Sandesh'', the Bengali magazine revived by Satyajit Ray. He started his career in the advertisement department of the children's magazine Sandesh. Ray cast him in a cameo in ''Mahanagar'' and then famously as the singer Goopy Gyne in ''Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne''. The song ''Aaha Ki Aananda Aakshe Batashe'' filmed on him Goopy and ''Rabi Ghosh'' as Bagha Byne still stirs the memory of the ''Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padma Devi
Padma Devi (1917–1983) was a popular Indian Bengali Hindi/Hindustani Film Actress and playback singer of Indian cinema, in the silent era and the early talkies. Starting her career with the main role in ''Sea Goddess'' (1931), directed by Dhirubhai Desai and produced by Saroj Film Company, Padma went on to act in over one hundred films in her career. Early years Padma Devi was born on 1917 in Bengal, British India. Her ancestral home was Madaripur. Her real name was Nilima. Career Padma Devi was one of the earliest action heroines of the Indian Cinema. She started her career with ''Sea Goddess'', filmed in 1931, and was often cast with "dare-devil" Boman Shroff in a stream of successful stunt films such as ''The Amazon'', directed and produced by JBH Wadia, released in 1933. In his unpublished autobiography, Jamshed Boman Homi Wadia wrote:“I made my last silent thriller 'The Amazon' or 'Dilruba Daku' th Padma in the stellar role. The ory was the reverse of 'Thunderb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
