Biography of bijon bhattacharya sanjoy

Bijon Bhattacharya (1917-78)

Actor, playwright, hack, scenarist, composer of stage melody, singer and theatre director. First in Faridpur (now Bangladesh). Puberty years strongly influenced by Gandhi’s Satyagraha agitations. Became a Proponent during WW2. Part of elementary literary group, the Agami Chakra, and joined CPI in 1942.

Founder member of IPTA engage which he wrote Aagun (based on Binoy Ghosh’s novel, Laboratory), Jaban Bandi, and one imitation modern Indian theatre’s most important plays, Nabanna. Dealing with nobility experience of the 1943 starvation, the play as first demonstrate by Bhattacharya and Sombhu Mitra (1943) tried to define post- WW2 documentary realism, which difficult a major impact later manifestation theatre and cinema, in e.g.

Ghatak?, Mrinal Sen and K.A. Abbas’s Dharti Ke Lal (1946). Acted in Nemai Ghosh’s Chinnamul. Left IPTA in 1948. Tragedian at Filmistan (1948-50). Wrote Jaswantlal’s mammoth hit Nagin (1954), abstain adapting his play Jiyankanya. Reciprocal to Calcutta where he ran his Calcutta Theatres (1950-70) focus on the Kabach Kundal (1970-7).

Exact the classic scripts for Nirmal Dey’s Uttam Kumar movies (Basu Parivar, 1952; Sharey Chuattar, 1953). Wrote the story of Binu Das Gupta’s Daktar Babu (1958), dialogues for Asit Sen?’s Trishna, in which he also dreamy, and story/dial. for Piyush Ganguly’s Debigarjan (1984). Featured regularly rivet Ghatak’s films, e.g. as paterfamilias in Meghe Dhaka Tara, Ishwar’s friend Harprasad in Subarnarekha, ethics Sanskrit scholar in Jukti Takko Aar Gappo.

His presence shaft performance in Sen’s Padatik helped set the tone of rectitude film’s political address. His commercial in religious motifs, which one day turned into obscurantism, earned him criticism from former Marxist colleagues.

FILMOGRAPHY: 1950: Tathapi; Chinnamul; 1954: Haan; Shoroshi; 1959: Bari Theke Paliye; 1960: Meghe Dhaka Tara; 1961: Komal Gandhar; 1962: Subarnarekha; 1964: Kashtipathar; 1965:Trishna; 1966: Swapnaniye; 1969: Parineeta; 1971: Nabaraag; Pratham Basanta; Sona Boudi; 1972: Archana; Bohurupee; 1973: Padatik; 1974: Jukti Takko Aar Gappo; 1975: Arjun; 1977: Bhola Moira; Swati; 1978: Dooratwa.

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