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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.
- Dooratwa
- Neem Annapurna
- Grihajuddha
- Bagh Bahadur
- Tahader Katha
- Charachar
- Lal Darja
- Uttara
- Mondo Meyer Upakhyan
- Kaalpurush
Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s debut feature film, based on a short story by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, portrays the life of a young man, Mandar, who is a professor of Political Science by profession and liberal by nature. He marries a young woman, Anjali, but the moment he learns that she is pregnant with someone else’s child, he abandons her. As the narrativ...
Dasgupta’s Sophomore is a dark tale of a rural family who shifts to the city of joy to ward off the miseries of their life and hopes for a better future. But as one event unfolds after their bid for survival is put to the test. The protagonist, Braja, has been laid off, and he tirelessly looks for work but finds that one door closes and another doe...
His third film, after a gap of three years, is a valiant political thriller that touches upon the interlinking of factory owners and anti-social elements to eliminate individuals whose presence creates a threat to running their business successfully using ethical choices. The film follows a linear narrative where an unscrupulous steel factory owner...
Based on a short story by Prafulla Roy, the film depicts the plight of Ghunuram, who takes time off from his job every year to prepare for and appear in a folk dance in his village, dressed up as a tiger. But a circus troupe with a newly captured leopard has come into his village, Nonpura, and the villagers are showing active interest, too.
Shibnath Mukherjee, who was sentenced to eleven years in prison for assaulting a British officer, is now released. While he was serving his sentence, the Partition of India happened, and his family became a refuge in the newly formed nation. Shibnath, who was an impressively powerful individual as a valourous freedom fighter who stood against the t...
Shots of sea and forest birds flying across the length of the sky cry, calls from the avians echoing within the landscape, the panoramic visuals of the seascapes add up to tell an ostensively emblematic tale about a poor bird catcher, Lakhinder, who is inept as an individual in his area of work. He catches forest birds and sells them to a bird deal...
With his 9th feature film, Buddhadeb Dasgupta enters into the terrain where the texture of dreams and memoryeschews conventional narrative and plot and instead seeks to illuminate the essence of the unconsciousness through a patient, enigmatic, and reflective cinema that borders on poetic divinity. The rest of his filmography will strictly adhere t...
Dasgupta’s earlier films had traveled to various international film festivals across the world, but when Uttara won the Special Director’s Award at the 57th Venice International Film Festival in 2000, his fame as a filmmaker catapulted to a new zenith. The film is based on a short story by Samaresh Basu and depicts the life of two ordinary railway ...
Set in 1969, the film is based on a short story by Bengali writer Prafulla Roy, and the central idea is developed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta. The storyline of the film follows a young girl, Lati, the daughter of a sex worker, Rajani, who wants to complete her studies, but her mother wants to sell her to an affluent old man who is a cinema-hall owner and...
Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s 14th feature film can be christened as one of his most complex narrative structures not only due to its non-linear fragmentation of events but also due to the idiosyncratic lyricism that works as a tool to chronicle the fate of different characters and allows it to flow on different cinematic space. The protagonist of the film,...
Buddhadev Dasgupta was born on 11 February 1944 in Anara, India. He was a director and writer, known for Uttara (2000), Dooratwa (1979) and Charachar (1994). He died on 10 June 2021 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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- Anara, India
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- Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Jun 10, 2021 · Revered Indian filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta died in Kolkata on Thursday due to kidney-related ailments. He was 77. Dasgupta’s work was equally feted globally and domestically.
Jun 11, 2021 · Buddhadeb Dasgupta, one of the most original icons of cinema, who helped put Indian cinema on the global stage, passed away in Kolkata on Thursday.
Jan 17, 2018 · The acclaimed musician, who died on Monday, paved the way for middle-class Bengalis to learn Hindustani music.
Jun 10, 2021 · With Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s (1944-2021) death, Indian cinema has lost one of its most original, iconoclastic figures who helped put it back on the world stage after Satyajit Ray’s death.
