'''Tarun Majumdar (b. 1932)'''


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’.


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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.

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