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Basu Chatterjee (10 January 1927 – 4 June 2020) was an Indian film director and screenwriter in Hindi Cinema.Through the 1970s and 1980s, he became associated with what came to be known as middle cinema or middle-of-the-road cinema filmmakers, such as Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Bhattacharya, whom he assisted on Teesri Kasam (1966). Like ...
- Piya Ka Ghar (1972) Chatterji’s brilliant debut film Sara Akash depicted the conflicts of a newly-wed couple. In Piya Ka Ghar, Chatterjee focused on one of the major sources of stress for a couple living in a joint family in Mumbai in the 1970s: the lack of privacy.
- Rajanigandha (1974) In Rajnigandha, an job offer takes Deepa (Vidya Sinha in her debut) to Mumbai, where she meets her old college sweetheart Navin (Dinesh Thakur).
- Chitchor (1976) A misunderstanding about his position in the organisational heirarchy brings Vinod (Amol Palekar) close to Geeta (Zarina Wahab) and her family.
- Chhoti Si Baat (1976) Arun (Amol Palekar) is attracted to Prabha (Vidya Sinha) who works in a nearby office, but he is too shy to make the first move. Arun also has to fight off his competitor, the flamboyant Nagesh (Asrani).
Basu Chatterjee was born on 10 January 1930 in Ajmer, British India. He was a director and writer, known for Sara Akash (1969), Rajnigandha (1974) and Swami (1977). He died on 4 June 2020 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
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- Ajmer, British India
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- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Jun 4, 2020 · Basu Chatterjee, one of the pillars of the Indian New Wave Cinema passed away today. Through his films Basu Da, as he was popularly called, used the ‘common man tales’ to introduce a new twist to Indian Cinema in the seventies and eighties.
Jun 4, 2020 · Filmmaker-screenwriter Basu Chatterjee, the torch-bearer of the Hindi middle-of-the-road cinema of the 70s and the 80s, passed away in Mumbai on Thursday morning.
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Jun 4, 2020 · Basu Chatterjee (left) explored middle-class anxieties of life and love. Legendary filmmaker Basu Chatterjee, who directed simple Bollywood romances and comedies, has died aged 93....
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Jun 4, 2020 · Basu Chatterjee, whose four-decade career yielded some of Hindi cinema’s most beloved films, died this morning at his Mumbai home, of age-related ailments. He was 90. Along with Hrishikesh...
