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Surya Sikha
''Surya Sikha'' () is a Bengali romance drama film directed by Salil Dutta. This film was released on 12 July 1963 in the banner of Chhayachhabi Pratisthan. The film starring Uttam Kumar Supriya Debi in lead role and Chabi Biswas, Utpal Dutta and others played supporting role. Plot Dipto Roy returns to India after completion of FRCS from London. He is extremely committed and dutyfull to his patients. He takes up the responsibility to run a village hospital and makes a lot of changes to the infrastructure which causes serious oppositions to him. Achena, a schoolteacher having nursing training assists him. Dipto and Achena marry but after the marriage Achena becomes more active in housework rather than the hospital which makes Dipto frustrated. Subsequently, they separate and after many years Dipta and Achena meet once again. Cast * Uttam Kumar as Dipto * Supriya Devi as Achena * Chhabi Biswas * Utpal Dutt * Tarun Kumar Chatterjee * Jahor Roy * Asit Baran * Pan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salil Dutta
Salil Dutta (30 November 1931 – 20 September 2004) was an Indian Bengalis, Bengali director, screenwriter and actor. He is well known for his films Surya Sikha (1963), Stree (1972) and Seyi Chokh (1976). Career Dutta was born in 1931 in British India. He started his career as assistant director of ''Trijama'' in 1956 and ''Khokababur Pratyabartan'' in 1960. The first film directed by him is Surya Sikha (1963) starred Uttam Kumar and Supriya Choudhury. He also acted in a number of films like ''Atithi (1965 film)'', ''Khelaghar'', ''Dhanyee Meye'' etc. Dutta directed 22 Bengali films in his career. He died on 20 September 2004 in Kolkata due to lung cancer. Filmography * ''Surya Sikha'' (1963) * ''Momer Alo'' (1964) * ''Prastar Swakkhor'' (1967) * ''Aparichita (1969 film), Aparichita'' (1969) * ''Kalankita Nayak'' (1970) * ''Khunje Berai'' (1971) * ''Stree (1972 film), Stree'' (1972) * ''Sesh Pristhay Dekhun'' (1973) * ''Asati'' (1974) * ''Sei Chokh'' (1976) * ''Babu Moshai'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarun Kumar Chatterjee
Tarun Kumar Chatterjee (24 February 1931 – 27 October 2003) was an Indian actor who is known for his exclusive work in Bengali cinema. In most of his films, his role as a supporting actor gave him huge appreciation from critics and audience. Personal life Tarun Kumar was born on 24 February 1931 in Kolkata. He was the youngest brother of actor Uttam Kumar. Tarun Kumar passed Matriculation from South Suburban School. Although he joined Ashutosh College, but he could not continue his studies. In his professional life, he used to work in Maclyod Company, Metro Cinema and then at Burn Company for few days. In 1962, he married fellow actress Subrata Chattopadhyay ( 1940 - 2004 ) and had a daughter. Tarun Kumar was also known by his nick name 'Buro' among film industry people. His grandson Sourav Banerjee is also an actor. Career Kumar acted in over 500 films since making his debut with ''Hrod'' in 1954. In '' Jhinder Bandi'', he played the rival, Udit, the brother of Shankar p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s Bengali-language Films
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian of ... [...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] |
1963 Films
The year 1963 in film involved some significant events, including the big-budget epic ''Cleopatra'' and two films with all-star casts, '' How the West Was Won'' and ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World''. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1963 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 9 – Joseph Vogel resigns as president of MGM and is replaced by Robert O'Brien. * February 20 – The classic epic western '' How the West Was Won'' premieres in the United States. It is an instant success with both audiences and critics and becomes the biggest moneymaker for MGM since '' Ben-Hur''. * June 12 – ''Cleopatra'', starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton, premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City. Its staggering production costs nearly bankrupted Twentieth Century Fox and the adulterous affair between Taylor and Burton made the publicity even worse. ''Cleopatra'' marked the only instance that a film would be t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandhya Mukherjee
Geetashree Sandhya Mukherjee (also spelled Mukhopadhyay; 4 October 1931 – 15 February 2022) was an Indian playback singer and musician, specialising in Bengali music. She received Banga Bibhushan, the highest civilian honour of the Indian state of West Bengal in 2011. She also won the National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer for her songs in the films ''Jay Jayanti'' and ''Nishi Padma'' in the year 1970. Early and personal life Mukherjee was born in Dhakuria, Calcutta, on 4 October 1931 to Narendranath Mukherjee, a railway official, and Hemprova Devi. She was the youngest of six children. Her grandfather was a police officer, and the family had lived in Dhakuria since 1911. She was married to noted lyrist Shyamal Gupta, until his death in 2010. Training & career Sandhya started her music training under the direction of Pandit Santosh Kumar Basu, Professor A T Kannan, and Professor Chinmoy Lahiri. However, her ''guru'' was Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemanta Mukherjee
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 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uttar Falguni
''Uttar Falguni'' () is a 1963 Indian Bengali-language drama film directed by Asit Sen and produced by Uttam Kumar, starring Suchitra Sen in a double role, Bikash Roy and Dilip Mukherjee in lead. At the 11th National Film Awards, the film was awarded the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali. Music of the film composed by Robin Chatterjee. The film was remade by director Asit Sen himself in Hindi, as '' Mamta'' (1966) again with Suchitra Sen as the lead. The film was also remade in Tamil as '' Kaviya Thalaivi'' (1970), and in Malayalam as ''Pushpanjali'' (1972). Plot Cast * Suchitra Sen as Debjani / Pannabai and Suparna * Bikash Roy as Manish Roy * Chhaya Devi as Baijee * Dilip Mukherjee as Indranil * Padmadevi as Indranil's mother * Kalipada Chakraborty as Rakhalbabu * Pahari Sanyal as Barrister * Jahar Ganguli as Debjani's father * Sita Mukherjee as Mother Mary * Ajit Bandyopadhyay * Renuka Roy Soundtrack Reception This is the fourth film produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bipasha (film)
''Bipasha'' is a 1962 Indian Bengali-language drama film starring Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen. and directed by Agradoot. The film is based on a novel titled ''Bipasha'' by Sri Tarashankar Bandyopadhay.The story fleetingly describes the horror of riots in West Pakistan during the time of Partition of India. Bipasa was described as a victim of that riot in the film. However, the film deviates from the original novel and avoids describing Bipasha as a gang rape victim by Pakistani Islamist rioters. It is one of the many hit films in which Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen worked as a pair. The other cast members included Chhabi Biswas, Chhaya Debi, Pahari Sanyal, Jiben Bose and Tulsi Chakrabarti. Plot The storyline goes when Dibyendu Chattopadhyay (Uttam Kumar) the young engineer meets Bipasha Bhattacharya (Suchitra Sen) in today's Maithon. Their acquaintance soon reaches a stage when the young couple decide to get married. However, on the night of her marriage to Dibyendu th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feature Film Soundtrack
A soundtrack is recorded music accompanying and synchronised to the images of a motion picture, drama, book, television program, radio program, or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronised recorded sound. In movie industry terminology usage, a sound track is an audio recording created or used in film production or post-production. Initially, the dialogue, sound effects, and music in a film each has its own separate track (''dialogue track'', ''sound effects track'', and '' music track''), and these are mixed together to make what is called the ''composite track,'' which is heard in the film. A ''dubbing track'' is often later created when films are dubbed into another language. This is also known as an M&E (music and effects) track. M&E tracks contain all sound elements minus dialogue, which is then supplied by the fore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gangapada Basu
Gangapada Basu (as known as Gangapada Bose) (12 March 1910- 23 May 1971) was a Bengali film and theatre actor. He was an actor in the Gananatya Sangha and Bohurupee theatre groups. Films * ''Tothapi (1950) * ''Chinnamul'' (1950) * '' Nagarik'' (1952) * ''Aaj Sandhyay'' (1953) * ''Naba Bidhan'' (1954) * ''Debatra'' (1955) * ''Nishiddha Phal'' (1955) * ''Shreebatsa Chinta'' (1955) * ''Asha'' (1956) * ''Data Karna'' (1957) * ''Prithibi Amare Chaay'' (1957) * ''Ajantrik'' (1958) * '' Jalsaghar'' (1958) * ''Parash Pathar'' (1958) as Businessman Kachalu * ''Kuhak'' (1960) * '' Manik'' * '' Surya Sikha'' (1963) * ''Birieswar Vivekananda'' (1964) * ''Nishi Padma ''Nishi Padma'' is a 1970 Bengali drama film written and directed by Arabinda Mukhopadhyay, based on a short story ''Hinger Kochuri'' by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, and starring Uttam Kumar and Sabitri Chatterjee as leads. The film had music by ...'' (1970) * ''Bibaha Bibhrat'' (1971) * Ekhane Pinjar (1971) See also * ... [...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 Narayanganj ( bn, নারায়ণগঞ্জ ''Naraeongônj'') is a city in central Bangladesh. It is in the Narayanganj District, about southeast of the capital city of Dhaka, and has a population of about 2 million. It is the 6th larges ..., 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 '' Chowrin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
