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Jun 26, 2012, 7:01:32 PM (12 years ago)

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+'''Premendra Mitra (1904-88)'''
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+
+Bengali director and writer born in Benares,
+UP. Major short story writer, poet and novelist
+of Kallol era, associated with journal
+Kalikalam (Est: 1926). One of the main Bengali
+literary figures to move to film, first as scenarist,
+then as director (others were Sailajananda
+Mukherjee and Dinesh Ranjan Das). Studied
+briefly at Shantiniketan and later at Dhaka.
+Worked as journalist on Banglar Katha; later
+edited the children’s journal, Rangmashal
+(1933), and worked on Nabashakti (1936). First
+major novel, Pank (Mud, 1924), published by
+journal Kallol in 1926 and criticised by
+Rabindranath Tagore for obscenity, was an
+important event in articulating the journal’s
+anti-romantic stance. Wrote c.150 books,
+including novels, essay collections, short
+stories and poems. Entered film as scenarist,
+writing the dialogue for Charu Roy’s Graher
+Pher (1936). Best-known work for Dhiren
+Ganguly, Niren Lahiri and Sushil
+Majumdar. Considered his film scripts
+sentimental and not representative of his best
+writing, and later disowned his cinema entirely.
+His own films, introducing a sentimentalised
+socialist realism to the traditional social,
+combined aspects of pre-WW2 Bengali
+modernist fiction, IPTA influences (Moyla
+Kagaj) and the post-WW2 assimilation of
+melodramatic Italian neo-realism. Wrote all his
+own films; provided scripts and at times
+dialogues and lyrics for e.g. Ganguly’s Ahuti
+(1941) and Daabi (1943), Sushil Majumdar’s
+Rikta (1939), Pratishodh (1941), Avayer Biye
+(1942), Jogajog (1943) and Digbhranta (1950),
+Phani Burma’s Byabadhan (1940) and
+Debaki Bose’s Sagar Sangamey (1959). Also
+dialogues for Prafulla Roy’s Nari (1942) lyrics
+for Jyotish Bannerjee’s Milan (1942). Many of
+his stories have been filmed, e.g. Mrinal Sen’s
+Khandhar (1983). An English anthology of
+short stories was published in 1990.
+
+
+'''FILMOGRAPHY:''' 1943: Samadhan; 1944:
+Bideshini; 1945: Path Bendhe Dilo; Raj
+Lakshmi; 1947: Natun Khabar; 1948: Kalo
+Chhaya; 1949: Kuasha; 1950: Kankantala
+Light Railway; 1951: Setu; 1952: Hanabari;
+1953: Dui Beyai; 1954: Moyla Kagaj; 1955:
+Dakinir Char; 1960: Chhupi Chhupi Ashey.
+
+[[Director]]
+
+[[Actor]]