Indian director (1944?2021)
Buddhadeb Dasgupta
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Born
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1944-02-11
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11 February 1944
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Died
| 10 June 2021
(2021-06-10)
(aged 77)
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Nationality
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Occupation(s)
| Film maker, screenplay writer and author
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Children
| Alokananda Dasgupta
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Buddhadeb Dasgupta
(11 February 1944 ? 10 June 2021) was an Indian filmmaker and poet best known for his
Bengali-language films
like
Bagh Bahadur
,
Tahader Katha
,
Charachar
and
Uttara
. Five of his films have won the
National Film Award for Best Feature Film
,
Bagh Bahadur
(1989),
Charachar
(1993),
Lal Darja
(1997),
Mondo Meyer Upakhyan
(2002) and
Kaalpurush
(2008), while
Dooratwa
(1978) and
Tahader Katha
(1993) have won the
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali
. As a director, he has won
National Film Award for Best Direction
twice, for
Uttara
(2000) and
Swapner Din
(2005). Over the years he has published several works of poetry including
Govir Araley
,
Coffin Kimba Suitcase
,
Himjog
,
Chhaata Kahini
,
Roboter Gaan
,
Sreshtha Kabita
, and
Bhomboler Ascharya Kahini O Ananya Kabita
.
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Early life and education
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Buddhadeb Dasgupta was born in a Vaidya family in 1944 in
Anara
near
Puruliya
in Southern
West Bengal
,
[2]
and was the third of nine siblings. His father Tarkanta Dasgupta was a doctor with the
Indian Railways
, thus he spent the early part of childhood traveling. At the age of twelve, he was sent to Calcutta to study, earlier at
Shibpur SSPS Vidyalaya
and later at Dinabandhu School,
Howrah
.
[3]
Post-independence his father was transferred first to
Kharagpur
in
West Midnapore district
and
Manendragarh
(now in
Chhattisgarh
).
[4]
He studied economics at the
Scottish Church College
and the
University of Calcutta
.
[5]
[6]
Career
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Buddhadeb started his career as a lecturer of Economics, at the
Shyamsundar College
of the
University of Burdwan
followed by
City College, Calcutta
. In 1976, when disenchanted by the gap he perceived between the economic theory he taught and the socio-political reality, he took to film making.
[1]
Meanwhile, his membership with the
Calcutta Film Society
, where he started going in his senior high school along with his uncle, exposed him to the works of directors like
Charlie Chaplin
,
Ingmar Bergman
,
Akira Kurosawa
,
Vittorio De Sica
,
Roberto Rossellini
, and
Michelangelo Antonioni
. This, in turn, inspired him to take film making as a mode of expression.
[7]
He started his film career with a 10-minute documentary in 1968,
The Continent of Love
; eventually he made his first full-length feature film,
Dooratwa
(Distance) in 1978.
[8]
His lyricism has been extended to cinema as well. During the early stages of his film career, Dasgupta made films inspired by
Satyajit Ray
's realistic films and later moved on to other forms. Some of his most acclaimed films are
Bagh Bahadur
,
Tahader Katha
,
Charachar
and
Uttara
.
[9]
Filmography
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Feature films
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Documentary and TV work
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- The Continent of Love
(1968)
- Dholer Raja Khirode Natta
(1973)
- Fishermen of Sundarban
(1974)
- Saratchandra
(1975)
- Rhythm of Steel
(1981)
- Indian Science Marches Ahead
(1984)
- Vigyan O Tar Avishkar
(1980)
- Story of Glass
(1985)
- India on the Move
(1985)
- Ceramics
(1986)
- Aranyak
(1996)
- Contemporary Indian Sculpture
(1987)
- History of Indian Jute
(1990)
Awards
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Dasgupta (second from right) inaugurating 8th
Mumbai International Film Festival
, at the P.L. Deshpande Auditorium in Mumbai on 3 February 2004
Family
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His youngest daughter,
Alokananda Dasgupta
, a trained classical pianist, composed the background score for his 2013 film,
Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa
.
Death
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He died at the age of 77 on 10 June 2021.
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[16]
Further reading
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References
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- ^
a
b
c
Merchant of Dreams: Buddhadeb Dasgupta gets lifetime achievement award at the Spain International Film Festival
The Tribune
, 31 May 2008.
- ^
Buddhadeb Dasgupta Profile
Archived
7 December 2007 at the
Wayback Machine
at Calcuttaweb.com.
- ^
Hood, p. 2
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Hood, p. 3
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Some Alumni of Scottish Church College
in
175th Year Commemoration Volume
. Scottish Church College, April 2008, p. 588.
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Aami, Tumi, O Scottish
(translated from Bengali:"Me, You, and Scottish") in
175th Year Commemoration Volume
. Scottish Church College, April 2008, p. 430-1.
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Hood, p. 14
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Syed, M.H. (2005).
Encyclopaedia of Modern Journalism and Mass Media
. Anmol Publications. p. 210.
ISBN
81-261-2420-2
.
[
permanent dead link
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- ^
Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Archived
1 December 2010 at the
Wayback Machine
Upperstall.com.
- ^
Filmography
The New York Times
.
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"Sniffer (Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa)"
.
The Guardian
. Retrieved
5 January
2016
.
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"46th National Film Awards"
(PDF)
.
Directorate of Film Festivals
.
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"Berlinale: 1988 Programme"
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berlinale.de
. Retrieved
6 March
2011
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"Berlinale: 1994 Programme"
.
berlinale.de
. Retrieved
11 June
2011
.
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"Buddhadeb's 'Bag Bahadur' Pavan Malhotra pays a tribute to 5-time National Film Award winning auteur"
.
connectedtoindia.com
. Archived from
the original
on 10 June 2021
. Retrieved
10 June
2021
.
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"Buddhadeb Dasgupta, National Award-winning Bengali filmmaker, passes away aged 77 after prolonged kidney ailment"
.
Firstpost
. 10 June 2021
. Retrieved
11 June
2021
.
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