Tapan Sinha

Tapan Sinha
Sinha on a 2013 stamp of India
Born(1924-10-02)2 October 1924
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
(present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Died15 January 2009(2009-01-15) (aged 84)
Alma materUniversity of Patna (B.Sc.)

Rajabazar Science College (M.Sc.)

University of Calcutta
Years active1946–2001
SpouseArundhati Devi
ChildrenAnindya Sinha
AwardsDadasaheb Phalke Award (2006)
Signature
Tapan Singa signature

Tapan Sinha (2 October 1924 – 15 January 2009)[1] 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,[2] 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.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ "Award-winning Indian film-maker influenced by Capra and Wilder". The Guardian. 12 May 2009.
  2. ^ "Tapan Sinha's first film 'Ankush' was based on which story?". www.gktoday.in. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  3. ^ Gokulsing, K. Moti; Dissanayake, Wimal (2004). Indian Popular Cinema: A Narrative of Cultural Change (New rev. ed.). Stoke-on-Trent, UK: Trentham Books. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-85856-329-9.
  4. ^ Sharpe, Jenny (2005). "Gender, Nation, and Globalization in Monsoon Wedding and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge". Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. 6 (1): 58–81 [60 & 75]. doi:10.1353/mer.2005.0032. S2CID 143666869.
  5. ^ Gooptu, Sharmistha (July 2002). "Reviewed work(s): The Cinemas of India (1896–2000) by Yves Thoraval". Economic and Political Weekly. 37 (29): 3023–4.

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