Tapan Sinha

Key facts

Born

2 October 1924, Kolkata

Died

15 January 2009, Kolkata

State of birth

Kolkata, West Bengal

Sector

Film & entertainment

Profession

Indian film director (1924–2009)

Gender

Male

Biography

Tapan Sinha was one of the most prominent Indian film directors of his time forming a legendary quartet with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen. He was primarily a Bengali filmmaker who worked both in Hindi cinema and Bengali cinema, directing films like Kabuliwala (1957), Louha-Kapat, Sagina Mahato (1970), Apanjan (1968), Kshudhita Pashan and children's film Safed Haathi (1978) and Aaj Ka Robinhood. Sinha started his career in 1946, as a sound engineer with New Theatres film production house in Kolkata, then in 1950 left for England where he worked at Pinewood Studios for next two years, before returning home to start his six decade long career in Indian cinema, making films in Bengali, Hindi and Oriya languages, straddling genres from social realism, family drama, labor rights, to children's fantasy films. He was one of the acclaimed filmmakers of Parallel Cinema movement of India.

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Timeline

1. 1924Born in Kolkata
2. 2007Awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award
3. 2009Dies in Kolkata