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Jun 25, 2012, 5:58:24 PM (12 years ago)

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Tarun Majumdar

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+'''Tarun Majumdar (b. 1932)'''
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+Bengali director born in Bogra, now
+Bangladesh. Moved to Calcutta in 1946. Trained
+as a scientist. Assistant director at Rupasree
+Studio (1952-9), then made advertising films.
+Début with Kanan Devi’s film unit. Formed
+the Yatrik Film collective with Dilip Mukherjee
+and Sachin Mukherjee (1959-63, including his
+first four films). His Palatak, credited to Yatrik
+and produced by V. Shantaram, marked the
+comedian Anup Kumar’s change to a heroic
+image. The film was remade in Hindi as Rahgir.
+With his best-known film, the romantic musical
+Balika Bodhu, revitalised the genre of the
+rustic lyrical melodrama assisted by Hemanta
+Mukherjee’s music and one song hit originally
+from D.L. Roy. Made some 70s hits such as
+Nimantran, Phuleshwari and a Hindi remake
+of Balika Bodhu, causing a renewed 80s
+interest in the theme of the country-city divide
+as representing a conflict of morality, with
+Dadar Kirti. It has, however, proved
+unsuccessful with later films, e.g. Parasmoni,
+Agaman et al. Changed genre for the Rajen
+Tarafdar-scripted Sansar Simantey. One of
+the last commercial Bengali directors to trace
+his ancestry to Debaki Bose, P.C. Barua,
+Bimal Roy and 50s art-house cinema (cf.
+Tapan Sinha) rooted in popular Bengali
+literature: e.g. Ganadevata, based on a
+Tarashankar Bannerjee novel. Explicitly refers
+to this tradition in the opening song of
+Phuleshwari, contrasting his simpler populism
+with ‘Godard and Satyajit Ray’.
+'''
+FILMOGRAPHY:''' 1959: Chaowa-Pawa; 1960:
+Smriti Tuku Thak; 1962: Kancher Swarga;
+1963: Palatak; 1965: Alor Pipasa; Ek Tuku
+Basa; 1967: Balika Bodhu; 1969: Rahgir;
+1971: Nimantran; 1972: Shriman Prithviraj;
+1974: Phuleshwari; Thagini; 1975: Sansar
+Simantey; 1976: Balika Badhu; 1978:
+Ganadevata; 1979: Shahar Theke Dooray;
+1980: Dadar Kirti; 1981: Meghmukti; Khelar
+Putul; 1983: Amar Geeti; 1985: Bhalobasha
+Bhalobasha; Aranya Amar (Doc); 1986:
+Pathbhola; 1988: Parasmoni; Agaman; 1990:
+Apon Amar Apon; 1991: Path-o-Prasad; Sajani
+Go Sajani; 1994: Kothachilo; Akuha Katha.
+
+[[Director]]