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Oct 2, 2015 · Tapan Sinha was born in Kolkata on 2nd October 1924; he was the fifth child of Tridibesh and Pramila Sinha. He did his schooling in the small towns of Bhagalpur and Bankura. Sinha remembers in his memoirs Mone Pore that in Bhagalpur he had seen A Tale of Two Cities – a Hollywood film starring Ronald Colman – and the film perhaps was “sub-consciously responsible for him becoming a filmmaker”.
Film director Tapan Sinha in a photograph dated 22 October 1989. (HT Photo) Yet, Sinha’s works holds its own with the oeuvre of Ghatak, Ray, Sen,Tarun Majumdar, Asit Sen and Ajoy Kar – all of ...
Jan 14, 2020 · Tapan Sinha was a consummate and gifted storyteller, and his craft was characterised by his serious treatment of even popular themes. His was essentially an artistic sensibility working within a ...
Nov 8, 2023 · Tapan remade Aadmi Aur Aurat into Manush (Human), a Bengali version, for Films Division the very next year. He cast a different set of actors as the central characters in Manush. Play. Ek Doctor ...
Tapan Sinha. Writer/Director. 2 October 1924 to 15 January 2009. A revered Indian writer-director, Sinha scored a breakthrough hit with Kabuliwala (1956) and went to direct his Tagore trilogy, later winning acclaim for prison drama Louhakapat (1957). He also worked in Hindi cinema with Bollywood stars, and won a UNICEF award for his final ...
Jan 15, 2020 · Tapan Sinha’s 1970 film was largely based on the life of Sagina Mahato. Bollywood legends Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu played the lead roles, interestingly the only Bengali film to cast them.
Jan 18, 2021 · Tapan Sinha occupies a unique place in the annals of Bengali and Indian cinema. Active during a period when the troika of Satyajit Ray-Mrinal Sen-Ritwik Ghatak was setting international forums abuzz with their films, Tapan Sinha carved a distinctive niche for himself with films that seamlessly matched the arthouse with commercial success.
