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Bengal Film Journalists' Association – Best Director Award
Here is a list of the award winners and the films for which they won. See also * Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards * Cinema of India External links * https://web.archive.org/web/20120705035308/http://www.bfjaaward.com/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Bengal Film Journalists' Association - Best Director Award Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anik Dutta
Anik DuttaSpelling according to The Times of India' is a Bengali film director who made his directorial debut in 2012 Bengali film Bhooter Bhabishyat. In 2012 he started working on a film on Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (; born 2 November 1935) is a Bengali author from India. He has written stories for both adults and children. He is known for creating the relatively new fictional sleuths Barodacharan and Shabor Dasgupta. Life Shi ...'s novel ''Aschorjo Prodip''. Anik Dutta is grandson of Narendra Chandra Dutta, the founder of United Bank of India. Filmography Awards * '' Anandalok Awards'' for Best Director for '' Bhooter Bhabishyat'' * ''Zee Bangla Gourav Samman Award'' for Best Directorial Debut for '' Bhooter Bhabishyat'' * ''Zee Bangla Gourav Samman Award'' for Best Screenplay & Dialogue for '' Bhooter Bhabishyat'' * '' West Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards'' for Best Director for '' Borunbabur Bondhu, 2022'' * Filmfare Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uttara (film)
''Uttara'' (, ) is a 2000 Bengali language drama film thriller directed by Bengali poet Buddhadev Dasgupta. Based on a short story by Samaresh Bose, it stars Jaya Seal as Uttara, Tapas Paul, Shankar Chakraborty, Raisul Islam Asad as a Christian missionary. The film contrasts violence, human vices and lawlessness in a seemingly peaceful setting, in a quiet village in Purulia district in Bengal. ''Uttara'' premiered at the Venice Film Festival on 30 August 2000 and was the winner of the festivals' Special Director award. It was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2000 and on 22 May it was shown in the US at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival The film was released in France on 13 June 2001 and won the Audience Award at the Nantes festival. It opened the Pusan Film Festival in South Korea. Buddhadeb Dasgupta won the National Film Award for Best Direction in 2000 for this movie. Due to its homoerotic undertones, ''Uttara'' was shown at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kony (film)
''Koni'' (; sometimes spells as ''Koney'' or ''Kony'') is a national award-winning Bengali movie released in 1984 directed by Saroj Dey, starring Soumitra Chatterjee and Sriparna Banerjee. This film is an adaptation of a Bengali novel by the same name written by Moti Nandi. The film's lead Sriparna Banerjee was also a professional swimmer herself in the 1970s and at the time of casting a student of Jadavpur University. In a 2012 interview, veteran actor, Soumitra Chatterjee, called Koni one of the best films of his career. He even recalled using film's catch-phrase "Fight-Koni-fight" in hard times, as a chant to himself to lift his "aging spirits". The phrase had become popular with middle-class Bengalis at the time. Synopsis ''Koni'' is an inspirational story of a coach and his trainee Koni who fight all odds to achieve their aims. Khidda (Soumitra Chatterjee) is a swimming coach who teaches swimming to underprivileged kids. He picks Kanakchampa Pal alias Kony (character p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saroj De
Saroj is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name: *Saroj Raj Choudhury, Indian environmentalist, wildlife conservationist, writer * Saroj Dey (1921–1997), Bengali film director * Saroj Dubey (1938–2020), Indian politician * Saroj Nalini Dutt MBE (1887–1925), Indian feminist and social reformer *Saroj Dutta (1914–1971), Indian communist intellectual and poet *Saroj Ghose (1935–2025), Indian science popularizer and museum maker * Saroj Chooramani Gopal, is an Indian medical doctor, medical educationist, paediatric surgeon *Saroj Khan (1948–2020), one of the most prominent Indian dance choreographers in Hindi cinema * Saroj Khaparde, Indian politician from Maharashtra *Saroj Mukherjee (1911–1990), Indian freedom fighter, member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India *Gogi Saroj Pal (born 1945), eminent Indian artist * Saroj Pandey (born 1968), politician and member of Bharatiya Janata Party * Saroj Perera (born 1960), Sri L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajen Tarafdar
Rajen Tarafdar (7 July 1917 – 23 November 1987) was an Indian film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was the recipient of two National Awards and two BFJA Awards. He graduated from the Government College of Art & Craft in Calcutta Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern ba ... in 1940 with a degree in popular arts. He was initially a graphic designer in an advertising agency before devoting himself to cinema. His directorial debut was ''Antariksha'' (1957). Awards Filmography References External links * \ 1917 births 1987 deaths 20th-century Indian male actors People from British India Bengali Hindus Bengali male actors Bengali writers Male actors in Bengali cinema Bengali film directors Indian male screenwriters Government College of Art & Craft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phera
'' Phera'' (English language:''The Return'') is a 1988 Bengali drama film directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta based on a story of Bengali novelist Narendranath Mitra. It was entered into the 38th Berlin International Film Festival, competition section. Plot The film revolves around the life of Sasanka who lives a mournful life and relationship with the family. Cast * Aloknanda Roy as Saraju *Kamu Mukherjee as Mantu * Sunil Mukherjee as Rashu *Devika Mukherjee as Jamuna *Subrata Nandy as Sasanka *Aniket Sengupta as Kanu Awards * 1987: National Film Award The National Film Awards are awards for artistic and technical merit given for "Excellence within the Cinema of India, Indian film industry". Established in 1954, it has been administered, along with the International Film Festival of India ... ** Best Screenplay: Budhdhadeb Dasgupta ** Best Feature Film in Bengali ** Best Child Artist: Aniket Sengupta References External links * {{Buddhadeb Dasgupta 1988 fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agantuk
''Agantuk'' (; known by its English title The Stranger) is a 1991 Bengali-language drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray. Notable for being Ray's last film, it was based on one of his own short stories, ''Atithi''. A joint Indo-French production, it received financial backing from companies such as Gérard Depardieu's DD Productions and Canal+.IMDb: Company credits for Agantuk Retrieved 2013-05-08 Plot summary Anila Bose, who lives in Calcutta, receives a letter from someone claiming to be her long lost uncle, Manomohan Mitra. He writes that he is visiting India after 35 years abroad and, as Anila is his only surviving relative, wants to meet her before he sets off again. Anila looks forward to it, but her husband, Sudhindra, is suspicious. The uncle arrives and stays. ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian film director, screenwriter, author, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligraphy, calligrapher, and composer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential film directors in the history of cinema. He is celebrated for works including ''The Apu Trilogy'' (1955–1959), Jalsaghar, ''The Music Room'' (1958), Mahanagar, ''The Big City'' (1963)'', Charulata'' (1964), and the ''Goopy–Bagha'' trilogy (1969–1992). Ray was born in Calcutta to author Sukumar Ray and Suprabha Ray. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent film, independent film-making after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealism, Italian neorealist film ''Bicycle Thieves'' (1948) during a visit to London. Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries, and short subject, shorts. Ray's first film, (1955), won eleven international ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheel Chair
A wheelchair is a mobilized form of chair using two or more wheels, a footrest, and an armrest usually cushioned. It is used when walking is difficult or impossible to do due to illnesses, injury, disabilities, or age-related health conditions. Wheelchairs provide mobility, postural support, and freedom to those who cannot walk or have difficulty walking, enabling them to move around, participate in everyday activities, and live life on their own terms. Wheelchairs come in a wide variety of formats to meet the specific needs of their users. They may include specialized seating adaptions, and individualized controls, and may be specific to particular activities, as with sports wheelchairs and beach wheelchairs. The most widely recognized distinction is between motorized wheelchairs, where propulsion is provided by batteries and electric motors, and manual wheelchairs, where the propulsive force is provided either by the wheelchair user or occupant pushing the wheelchair by hand ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tapan Sinha
Tapan Sinha (2 October 1924 – 15 January 2009) was one of the most prominent Indian film directors of his time forming a legendary quartet with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen. He was primarily a Bengali filmmaker who worked both in Hindi cinema and Bengali cinema, directing films like '' Kabuliwala'' (1957), ''Louha-Kapat'', '' Sagina Mahato'' (1970), '' Apanjan'' (1968), ''Kshudhita Pashan'' and children's film '' Safed Haathi'' (1978) and ''Aaj Ka Robinhood''. Sinha started his career in 1946, as a sound engineer with New Theatres film production house in Kolkata, then in 1950 left for England where he worked at Pinewood Studios for next two years, before returning home to start his six decade long career in Indian cinema, making films in Bengali, Hindi and Oriya languages, straddling genres from social realism, family drama, labor rights, to children's fantasy films. He was one of the acclaimed filmmakers of Parallel Cinema movement of India. Personal life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
