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Kamu Mukherjee
Kamu Mukherjee (14 June 1931 – 6 December 2003) was a Bengali actor, best known for his role as Mandar Bose in '' Sonar Kella'' and Harun-al-Rashid in Sandip Ray's first film '' Phatik Chand''. Career Mukherjee's first film appearance was in the 1959 film ''Sonar Harin'' with Uttam Kumar, Chhabi Biswas and Bhanu Bandopadhyay. He had gone to Satyajit Ray's house and approached Ray to act in his films and, thereafter, he worked with Ray in nine films. Mukherjee is known for his performances in different types of roles, both serious and comic, in Ray's films. His acting in the knife throwing scene in the film '' Joi Baba Felunath'' is one of the more remembered scenes from the filmmaker's oeuvre. He also starred in the films of Goutam Ghosh, Buddhadev Dashgupta and Arabinda Mukhopadhyay. Mukherjee died at the age of 72 on 6 December 2003 from rheumatoid arthritis in his home in Kolkata. Selected filmography * ''Sonar Harin'' (1959) as Abdulla * '' Charulata'' (1964) as cameo ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengali Language
Bengali, also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Bangla (, , ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. It is native to the Bengal region (Bangladesh, India's West Bengal and Tripura) of South Asia. With over 242 million native speakers and another 43 million as second language speakers as of 2025, Bengali is the List of languages by number of native speakers, sixth most spoken native language and the List of languages by total number of speakers, seventh most spoken language by the total number of speakers in the world. Bengali is the Official language, official, National language, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. It is the second-most widely spoken scheduled languages of India, language in India. It is the official language of the Indian states of West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kokhono Megh
''Kokhono Megh'' is a 1968 Bengali mystery romance movie directed by Agradoot. It stars Uttam Kumar and Anjana Bhowmik in lead roles. The movie was inspired by the 1963 American mystery comedy '' Charade''. Plot While on vacation at Darjeeling, art teacher Seema Rai met a charming stranger named Narayan Chowdhury. This pair builds friendship. When she returned home, she found that her apartment had been vandalized and was told by the police that her estranged uncle Suresh had been killed. Police informs her that Suresh was involved with a smuggling racket. She lets them know that they knew very little about this uncle as her father and Suresh drifted away when she was a child. He started to reach out only after her father died a few years back. Police asks her to keep all of Suresh's belongings as the next if kin but she takes only a framed picture of Suresh and his brother, i.e. her father. Narayan returns to the city and Seema finds solace in his company. They start to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Births
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. * January 30 – Charlie Chaplin comedy drama film ''City Lights'' receives its public premiere at the Los Angeles Theater with Albert Einstein as guest of honor. Contrary to the current trend in cinema, it is a silent film, but with a score by Chaplin. Critically and commercially successful from the start, it will place consistently in lists of films considered the best of all time. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Male Actors From Kolkata
Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilisation. A male organism cannot reproduce sexually without access to at least one ovum from a female, but some organisms can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Most male mammals, including male humans, have a Y chromosome, which codes for the production of larger amounts of testosterone to develop male reproductive organs. In humans, the word ''male'' can also be used to refer to gender, in the social sense of gender role or gender identity. Overview The existence of separate sexes has evolved independently at different times and in different lineages, an example of convergent evolution. The repeated pattern is sexual reproduction in isogamous species with two or more mating types with gametes of identical form and behavior (but different at the molecular level) to anisogamous species with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Male Actors In Bengali Cinema
Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilisation. A male organism cannot reproduce sexually without access to at least one ovum from a female, but some organisms can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Most male mammals, including male humans, have a Y chromosome, which codes for the production of larger amounts of testosterone to develop male reproductive organs. In humans, the word ''male'' can also be used to refer to gender, in the social sense of gender role or gender identity. Overview The existence of separate sexes has evolved independently at different times and in different lineages, an example of convergent evolution. The repeated pattern is sexual reproduction in isogamous species with two or more mating types with gametes of identical form and behavior (but different at the molecular level) to anisogamous species with game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goopy Bagha Phire Elo
''Goopy Bagha Phirey Elo'' () is a 1992 Indian Bengali comedy film directed by Sandip Ray and written by Satyajit Ray. A sequel to the 1980 film '' Hirak Rajar Deshe'' and the third installment of '' Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne series'', the film was released twelve years after its predecessor. It was the third and last installment of the '' Goopy–Bagha'' series. Plot Goopy Gyne and Bagha Byne rule the kingdom of Shundi and get bored of enjoying the royal luxuries. They want to get back to the days of adventure they had enjoyed all their lives, but age comes in the way. They leave the kingdom in search of new experiences. Finally, they reach Anandapur and win the king's heart with their musical abilities and powers. In the courtroom, they meet Brahmananda Acharya, who invites Goopy and Bagha to come to Anandagarh fort. When they go to his place, he offers them a job to steal three valuable stones, making use of their miraculous powers gifted by Bhuter Raja (King of Ghosts). In ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shakha Proshakha
''Shakha Proshakha'' () is a 1990 film directed by Satyajit Ray. It deals with four generations of a well-to-do Bengali family, with a focus on the third generation. This film displays an extraordinary use of Gregorian Chant and legendary orchestras of Bach and Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire .... Plot Anandamohan Majumdar, a wealthy, retired industrialist, lives with his 93-year-old father Abhay Charan, and his second son Proshanto. Proshanto, who was once a promising mineralogist, was rendered mentally ill because of a motor accident in England after which he had to leave his job in a few months after he had returned to India, and now spends his time listening to music. However, his memories are still intact though they remain buried in him and only o ... [...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] |
Paar (film)
''Paar'' (translation: "The Crossing ") is a 1984 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Goutam Ghose and produced by Swapan Sarkar. The film stars Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri. Naseeruddin Shah won a Volpi Cup for his role as Naurangia. The film was based on Bengali story ''Paari'' by Samaresh Basu. Plot The film of exploitation in rural Bihar, in which a landlord (Utpal Dutt)’s men wreck a village and kill the benevolent schoolmaster (Anil Chatterjee) who was a progressive force in the village. The labourer Naurangia (Naseeruddin Shah) breaks with a tradition to passive resistance and retaliates by killing the landlord's brother. Naurangia and his wife Rama (Shabana Azmi) become fugitives from justice. After many efforts to find sustenance elsewhere, the two decide to return home. To earn the fare, they agree to drive the herd of pigs through the river, causing the pregnant Rama to believe she has lost her baby. But they have to swim across a wide, swift ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heerak Rajar Deshe
''Hirak Rajar Deshe'' (; English title: "Kingdom of Diamonds") is an Indian Bengali dystopian fantasy musical film and a sequel to the 1969 anti-war fantasy musical '' Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne'' (and the second installment of '' Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne series'') directed by Satyajit Ray. In the film, the musicians Goopy and Bagha (who received magical powers in the first film) travel to the kingdom of the Diamond King, to find a sinister plot at work – subjects are being brainwashed by rewriting their thoughts with rhyming slogans. Plot The magically musical duo of Goopy Gyne and Bagha Byne make a comeback in this sequel, where they are invited to the court of the Hirak Raja (The Diamond King, Bangla: হীরক রাজা) for their musical skills. They are to perform at the kingdom's Anniversary Celebrations. Goopy and Bagha are bored with their lives as crown princes of Shundi and Halla. They are looking for a change, an adventure while they are still young, which comes in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paka Dekha
''Paka Dekha'' is a Bengali comedy drama film directed by Arabinda Mukhopadhyay and produced by Mohan Mallick based on a story of Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay by the same name. This film was released in 1980 under the banner of Reba Films. Hemanta Mukhopadhyay scored the music of the film. Plot Aparna's father, a police officer, fixes her marriage of his own choice. Aparna does not agree with her father and she flees from home. Her father arrests Aparna's friends and interrogates them one by one. Cast * Utpal Dutt as Aparna's father * Mahua Roychoudhury as Aparna * Rabi Ghosh * Tarun Kumar Chatterjee * Santosh Dutta * Sobha Sen *Kamu Mukherjee Kamu Mukherjee (14 June 1931 – 6 December 2003) was a Bengali actor, best known for his role as Mandar Bose in '' Sonar Kella'' and Harun-al-Rashid in Sandip Ray's first film '' Phatik Chand''. Career Mukherjee's first film appearance was in t ... * Haridhan Mukhopadhyay * Koushik Bandyopadhyay * Sambhu Bhattachayra * Reba Debi * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shatranj Ke Khilari
''Shatranj Ke Khilari'', also subtitled and later internationally released with the translated title ''The Chess Players'', is a List of Bollywood films of 1977, 1977 Indian film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, based on Munshi Premchand's Shatranj ke Khiladi, short story of the same name. Amjad Khan (actor), Amjad Khan plays the role of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, Nawab of Awadh, and Richard Attenborough enacts the role of General Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, James Outram. The main cast includes actors Sanjeev Kumar (actor), Sanjeev Kumar and Saeed Jaffrey as the chess players. It also has Shabana Azmi, Farooque Shaikh, Farida Jalal, David (actor), David Abraham, and Tom Alter. It has Amitabh Bachchan as the narrator. It was India's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards, but did not receive a nomination. This is the only full-length Hindi feature film of filmmaker Satyajit Ray. He later made a shor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
