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Shatabdi Roy
Satabdi Roy ()(born 5 October 1969) is an Indian actress, film director and politician. As an actress she is known for her work in Bengali cinema. She is the recipient of BFJA Awards for two times. As an actress, she ruled the array of commercial Bengali cinema during the late 1980s and 1990s. As a director, she has been denounced critically for her use of superfluous themes. She is a Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha since 2009. Roy made her film debut opposite Prosenjit Chatterjee in Tapan Sinha's much acclaimed Bengali film ''Atanka'' (1986), which won her the BFJA Awards for the Best Supporting Actress in 1987. She shot to stardom after she had been paired with Tapas Paul in films such as ''Amar Bandhan'' (1986), '' Guru Dakshina'' (1987), ''Antaranga'' (1988), ''Apan Amar Apan'' (1990) and ''Abishkar'' (1990) to name a few. Her major hits with Prosenjit Chatterjee include ''Alingan'' (1990), ''Shraddhanjali'' (1993), '' Lathi'' (1996), ''Sakhi Tumi K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agarpara
Agarpara is a locality in Panihati Municipality of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is close to Kolkata and also a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA).Agarpara has two pincode area -(a)700058,(b)700109 History In the past, a community named Aghore, who were specialized in boat making, used to live here. Earlier this place was known as Agrapalli, from where the name has been changed into Aagarpara. Agarpara Union was officially established on 23 July 1867. Sen estate and Sen family had been the recorded oldest inhabitant of Agarpara. Also, Ghosh family of Tarapukur, Parbat family of East Station Road and Majumder family of jananagari are the three oldest living families in this town. Geography Location 96% of the population of Barrackpore subdivision (partly presented in the map alongside, all places marked in the map are linked in the full screen map) lives in urban areas. In 2011, it had a density of ... [...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] |
Debipaksha
''Debipaksha'' is a 2004 Bengali film directed by Raja Sen and produced by Ashok Basu, Raja Sen, and Sumanta Chowdhury. Partha Sengupta composed the music. It tells the story of Haimanti, a lady from a pious family who is molested by a local goon. She has to face troubles to establish a new life for herself away from her family. Later, she returns home with a plot to enact her revenge on the criminal. Plot The film revolves around the lives of a village priest, Anandamohan Bhattacharya, his wife Anima (Bhattacharya), and their three daughters. Anandamohan is a dedicated Brahmin priest and tries to follow all the rituals and scriptures wholeheartedly. He named his three daughters Rebati, Haimanti, and Jayanti, the three names of Hindu goddess Durga. Rebati, the eldest daughter of Anandamohan and Anima, is a widow. Her husband died in a tram accident, and she now lives with her parents. Haimanti, the couple's second daughter, is in a relation with Nikhilesh and lives in the sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raja Sen
Raja Sen (born 10 November 1955) is an Indian film and television director and the winner of three National Film Awards from Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He is the father of actress Rimi Sen. Career Raja Sen first received recognition with ''Subarnalata'' (1997), a teleserial, he followed it up with ''Adarsha Hindu Hotel'', ''Arogyo Niketan'', few episodes of ''Desh Amaar Desh'' are some of the notables of the Bengali television arena. He has also documented the real life paradigm of the living legends of Bengal's World of Art & Culture, namely, Suchitra Mitra, Tapan Sinha, Sombhu Mitra, Subhas Mukhopadhyay. Personal life Raja Sen is married to ''Papiya Sen'', has two daughters, Romi Sen and Rimi Sen and two granddaughters Mishka and Juana. Filmography Feature film * ''Damu (1996 film), Damu'' (1996) - Cast: Raghuvir Yadav, Satya Banerjee, Monoj Mitra, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Rimi Sen (Child Artist). * Atmiyo Swajan (1999) - Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Supriya Devi, Dipankar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naya Zaher
''Naya Zaher'' is a 1991 Hindi drama thriller movie of Bollywood directed by Jyoti Sarup. It was India's first Hindi feature film based on HIV/AIDS. The mode has given of an adult thriller, where the main villain in the film is not a person, but the disease, AIDS. The music of the film was composed by Kalyanji–Anandji. Plot The film revolves with the illegal way of drug smuggling and spreading HIV-AIDS virus. Cast * Navin Nischol * Satabdi Roy * Arjun (Firoz Khan) as Inspector Vikram * Uttam Mohanty * Shiva Rindani * Disco Shanti * Iqbal Durrani * Alka Kubal Soundtrack The music was composed by Kalyanji–Anandji and released by Sonotone. Lyrics were penned by Indeevar, Maya Govind, Shail Chaturvedi Shail Chaturvedi (29 June 1936 – 29 October 2007) was a Hindi poet, satirist, humorist, lyricist and actor from India, most known for his political satire in the 70s and the 80s. He worked as a character actor in several Hindi films and TV s ... and Vinoo Mahendra. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jyoti Sarup
Jyoti Sarup (born 20 August 1954 in New Delhi) is a National Award winning Indian film/serial director and producer, most known for directing the television series, ''Buniyaad'', and films like ''Chorni'' (1982) and '' Bub''(2001) . Biography An engineer from Govt Engineering College Ujjain, by education, he received a Diploma from NSD and FTII for Acting. He came to Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1978 to become an actor. Not belonging to a film background, he had to start from scratch. He started off as a Chief Assistant Director to Late Mr. Ramanand Sagar. After acting in a few films & television serials and being the Chief Assisting to a few directors of that time, e.g.: Late Shri Atma Ram and Late Shri Shakti Samata, he found himself more suited behind the camera. He therefore started concentrating more on film and TV direction. His break as an individual director came from a Telefilm with Shekhar Suman and then he directed and acted in the Inspector Navin Mohan series of fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Film Award
The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India. Established in 1954, it has been administered, along with the International Film Festival of India and the Indian Panorama, by the Indian government's Directorate of Film Festivals since 1973. Every year, a national panel appointed by the government selects the winning entry, and the award ceremony is held in New Delhi, where the President of India presents the awards. This is followed by the inauguration of the National Film Festival, where award-winning films are screened for the public. Declared for films produced in the previous year across the country, they hold the distinction of awarding merit to the best of Indian cinema overall, as well as presenting awards for the best films in each region and language of the country. History The Awards were first presented in 1954. The Government of India conceived the ceremony to honor films made across India, on a national scale, to encourage the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bollywood
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (former name of Mumbai) and " Hollywood". The industry is a part of the larger Indian cinema, which also includes South Cinema and other smaller film industries. In 2017, Indian cinema produced 1,986 feature films, of which the largest number, 364 have been from Hindi. , Hindi cinema represented 43 percent of Indian net box-office revenue; Tamil and Telugu cinema represented 36 percent, and the remaining regional cinema constituted 21 percent. Hindi cinema has overtaken the U.S. film industry to become the largest centre for film production in the world. In 2001 ticket sales, Indian cinema (including Hindi films) reportedly sold an estimated 3.6 billion tickets worldwide, compared to Hollywood's 2.6 billion tickets sold. Earlier Hindi film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranokhetro
''Ranokhetro'' ( Battleground) is a 1998 Bengali language Indian crime thriller film directed by Haranath Chakraborty and produced by Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films. The film features actors Prosenjit Chatterjee and Satabdi Roy in the lead roles. Music of the film has been composed by Debojyoti Mishra Plot Santu is murdered in the hands of a corrupt minister's drug-peddling son when he protests against the sale of drugs on the college campus. As the law enforcers turn a deaf ear to Raja's pleas, he decides to avenge his brother's death. Cast * Prosenjit Chatterjee as Raja Roy Chowdhury * Satabdi Roy as Jhuma Bose, news reporter of Dainik Janabaani * Ranjit Mallick as Sudeb Mitra, college principal/Pritam Singh * Deepankar De as MLA Satya Roy * Tota Roy Chowdhury as Noni Roy, MLA's son * Dulal Lahiri as corrupt inspector Jeevan Dutta * Subhendu Chatterjee as Ashok Bose, Editor of Dainik Janabaani, Jhuma's father * Kushal Chakrabor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lathi (1996 Film)
''Lathi'' () is a 1996 Bengali family drama film directed by Prabhat Roy. The Film stars Victor Banerjee as the protagonist. It also stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Satabdi Roy, Haradhan Bandopadhyay, Abhishek Chatterjee, Pallavi Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Deepankar De, Tota Roy Chowdhury, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty and Kaushik Sen. The music of the film has been composed by Bappi Lahiri. Plot Atindranath Banerjee during his old-age and after his retirement after the long-term service in a local school get recognition and farewell from the same. While returning home he gets his son-in-law, Somnath (Prosenjit Chatterjee) and his daughter Lipi (Satabdi Roy) to him back home. But, while returning home he finds that some daily availers is beating and harassing an old women belonging to the lower section of the society and stating that she is a kidnapper. He protests and saves that old women. By the harassment of his sons (Koushik Bannerjee, Bodhi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guru Dakshina (1987 Film)
''Guru Dakshina'' is a 1987 Bengali film directed by Anjan Choudhury and produced by Bhabesh Kundu. The film stars Ranjit Mallick, Tapas Paul, Satabdi Roy, Kali Banerjee, and Shakuntala Barua in the lead roles. The film is about a poor village boy named Jayanta Bose who becomes a popular singer through his singing. Plot Jayanta Bose, a poor naive village boy, gets a low paying job at the rich but corrupt businessman, Mr. Roy's company to support him and his mother. One day, he sings at Mr. Roy's function displaying his singing skills, which makes him an overnight star. He's also in love with Mr. Roy's beautiful daughter Rupa who's very supportive of his singing along with her elder brother, his other boss and brotherly figure, Rajat. However, the apparently jealous Mr. Roy makes him lose his fame after blackmailing his desperate music teacher when he begs for money for his grandson's treatment, to make Jayanta stop singing, which also ruins Jayanta's image to the point that he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tapas Paul
Tapas Paul (29 September 1958 – 18 February 2020) was an Indian actor and politician. One of the most celebrated actors of Bengali cinema, Paul is best known for his on-screen romantic collaboration with Mahua Roy Choudhury and Debashree Roy. He received a Filmfare Award. He was a Member of Parliament from Krishnanagar having won in the 2014 Indian General Elections on a Trinamool Congress ticket.Detailed Profile: Shri Tapas Paul ''india.gov.in''. Retrieved 16 October 2012 He shot to fame and popularity with his debut film '''' (1980), a romantic drama by |
