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Subhrajit Mitra | |
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| Born | 18 January 1976 Kolkata |
| Nationality | Indian |
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| Years active | 1994–present |
Subhrajit Mitra (born 18 January 1976) is a filmmaker from Kolkata, India. He is known for his work in the Bengali film industry. [1]
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Subhrajit Mitra | |
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| Born | 18 January 1976 Kolkata |
| Nationality | Indian |
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| Years active | 1994–present |
Subhrajit Mitra (born 18 January 1976) is a filmmaker from Kolkata, India. He is known for his work in the Bengali film industry. [1]
Subhrajit Mitra is an Indian filmmaker who works in the Bengali film industry. His 2021 film, Avijatrik [The wanderlust of Apu], which is the sequel to the Apu trilogy by Satyajit Ray, is ranked 5th in the list of best South Asian films of 2020, garnering 27 international laurels as of 2022. The film has travelled to 5 continents, 20 cities, 22 festivals and is considered a modern-day classic by the critics. Personally, Subhrajit has won 9 laurels as the screenplay writer and director of the film.
Mitra started his career at the age of 18 as a documentary director for Doordarshan. He completed his postgraduate diploma in computer science and engineering as well as a part-time two-year diploma course in film direction from National Institute of Film and Fine Arts. He is also a certificate holder from Harvard University for the department of the Classics on Ancient Masterpieces on World literature. He is the recipient of Rotary Benevolent Club's Iconic Achievers Award 2021. Subhrajit was presented with an Honorary Doctorate degree in Literature [D'litt], by the Saint Mother Teresa University, Bangalore, for his profound understanding of the literature based classics and contributing to the Indian and Bengali cinema as the Director and Screenplay writer.
Subhrajit is the screenplay writer and director of Avijatrik [The wanderlust of Apu]. The film is based on the concluding part of the novel "Aparajito" by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, and sequel to the classic "Apu trilogy" by Satyajit Ray. The film was considered a success in the international festival circuits as well as with the domestic audience.
His debut feature film was Mon Amour: Shesher Kobita Revisited in 2008. Mitra has directed 7 feature films including the Aagunpakhi and Kakababu trilogy by Sunil Ganguly, and "Chorabali" a whodunit thriller inspired by Agatha Christie's work. Vorai, a 52 minute film, was Mitra’s first fiction work. It has won 4 major awards across the globe.
Prior to Mon Amour, he has directed and screen-written for six documentaries for Doordarshan, the national channel, fifty-two episodes of a documentary-series on National network with joint production by ISRO [Indian space research organization], two corporate documentaries for BM Birla heart research center, a corporate documentary for ONGC and a promotional docu-fiction on conservation of nature for Forest Department of West Bengal. Subhrajit researched, scripted and Directed "Wangala" – a documentary film on Garo tribes in the North east of the Himalayan foothill range, it was well received globally. He was an empaneled filmmaker of National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, and History Channel. He has directed a series on the lesser-known tribes of the Himalayas, titled "Himalayas- unsung, unseen" for National Geographic Channel.
Mitra has made a documentary on the 1971 India–Pakistan war and Bangladesh liberation for BSF, produced by Ministry of Home Affairs, India. Mr. A.R. Rahman has done the score for this Documentary. Subhrajit has made a docu feature on Jesus Christ’s alleged life in India after his proclaimed resurrection, titled "The unknown stories of the Messiah". Internationally acclaimed actors such as Soumitra Chatterjee and Aparna Sen have acted in this film. The film premiered at Cannes film market and also got nominated as the "Best International docu-feature" award at the Rome international film festival. His Documentary film on prisoner’s children, "Flickering Angels", produced by the Government of India, has travelled to several international festivals.
Subhrajit is well known for his feature films based on the period piece literary classics as well as for some of his path breaking documentaries.
Subhrajit has much up his sleeve as he has rolled out the plans for his next film; a historical adaptation of Bankim Chandra chattopadhyay's Devi Choudharni. It will trace the events leading to the rise of The East India Company and Sanyasi Bidroha।Veteran actors like Prasenjit Chatterjee, Srabanti Chatterjee and Indraneel Sengupta have reportedly signed up for top roles০.This is going to be one of the most expensive Tollywood projects ever, with Hollywood houses collaborating for the first time in Bengali Cinema.
Feluda is a fictional detective, private investigator created by Indian director and writer Satyajit Ray. Feluda resides at 21 Rajani Sen Road, Ballygunge, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Feluda first made his appearance in a Bengali children's magazine called Sandesh in 1965, under the editorialship of Ray and Subhas Mukhopadhyay. His first adventure was Feludar Goendagiri. Feluda is one of the most impactful Bengali characters of all time.
The Apu Trilogy comprises three Indian Bengali-language drama films directed by Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and The World of Apu (1959). The original music for the films was composed by Ravi Shankar.
Pather Panchali is a 1955 Indian Bengali-language drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray in his directoral debut and produced by the Government of West Bengal. It is an adaptation of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's 1929 Bengali novel of the same name and features Subir Banerjee, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Uma Dasgupta, Pinaki Sengupta and Chunibala Devi in major roles. The first film in The Apu Trilogy, Pather Panchali depicts the childhood travails of the protagonist Apu and his elder sister Durga amidst the harsh village life of their poor family.
Aparajito is a 1956 Indian Bengali-language drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, and is the second part of The Apu Trilogy. It is adapted from the first half of Bibhutibhushan Bannerjee's novel Aparajito. It starts off where the previous film Pather Panchali (1955) ended, with Apu's family moving to Varanasi, and chronicles Apu's life from childhood to adolescence in college.
Apur Sansar, also known as The World of Apu, is a 1959 Indian Bengali-language drama film produced, written and directed by Satyajit Ray. It is based on the second half of Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay's novel Aparajito. Following Pather Panchali (1955) and Aparajito (1956), The World of Apu is the final part of Ray's The Apu Trilogy, about the childhood and early adulthood of a young Bengali named Apu in early twentieth century India. The World of Apu stars Soumitra Chatterjee and Sharmila Tagore ; the duo would go on to appear in many subsequent Ray films.
SoumitraChatterjee was an Indian film actor, play-director, playwright, writer, thespian and poet. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema. He is best known for his collaborations with director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films.
Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker who worked prominently in Bengali cinema and who has often been regarded as one of the greatest and most influential directors in the History of cinema. Ray was born in Calcutta to a Bengali family and started his career as a junior visualiser. His meeting with French film director Jean Renoir, who had come to Calcutta in 1949 to shoot his film The River (1951), and his 1950 visit to London, where he saw Vittorio De Sica's Ladri di biciclette (1948), inspired Ray to become a film-maker. Ray made his directorial debut in 1955 with Pather Panchali and directed 36 films, comprising 29 feature films, five documentaries, and two short films.
Satyajit Ray (1921–1992), a Bengali film director from India, is well known for his contributions to Bengali literature. He created two of the most famous characters in Feluda the sleuth and Professor Shanku the scientist. He wrote several short novels and stories in addition to those based on these two characters. His fiction was targeted mainly at younger readers, though it became popular among children and adults alike.
Satyajit Ray was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. Ray is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential film directors in the history of cinema. He is celebrated for works including The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959), The Music Room (1958), The Big City (1963), Charulata (1964), and the Goopy–Bagha trilogy (1969–1992).[a]
Sabyasachi Chakrabarty is an Indian actor of theatre, films and television. He is best known for portraying iconic Bengali detective characters, Feluda, and Kakababu.
Mon Amour: Shesher Kobita Revisited is a 2008 Bengali film directed by Subhrajit Mitra. The story is by Kaberi Dutta Chatterjee. The title is in French, Bengali and English. The language is Bengali but the derived culture it presents is global.
Cinema of West Bengal, also known as Tollywood or Bengali cinema, is the segment of Indian cinema, dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Bengali language widely spoken in the state of West Bengal. It is based in the Tollygunge region of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The origins of the nickname Tollywood, a portmanteau of the words Tollygunge and Hollywood, dates back to 1932. It was a historically important film industry, at one time the centre of Indian film production. The Bengali film industry is known for producing many of Indian cinema's most critically acclaimed global Parallel Cinema and art films, with several of its filmmakers gaining prominence at the Indian National Film Awards as well as international acclaim.
Shaheb Chatterjee is a Bengali Indian male actor and singer of Tollywood Bangla and Bengali television.
Feluda is an Indian-Bengali detective media franchise created by Indian-Bengali film director and writer Satyajit Ray, featuring the character, Feluda. The titular character is a private investigator starring in a series of Bengali novels and short stories. The detective resides at 21 Rajani Sen Road, Ballygunge, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Feluda first made his appearance in a Bengali children's magazine called Sandesh (সন্দেশ) in 1965, under the editorialship of Satyajit and Subhas Mukhopadhyay. His first adventure was Feludar Goendagiri.
Jekhane Bhooter Bhoy is a 2012 Indian Bengali film directed by Sandip Ray. There are three short ghost stories in this film.
Badshahi Angti is a 2014 Indian Bengali-language thriller film directed by Sandip Ray, based on the novel of the same name by Satyajit Ray, starring Abir Chatterjee and Sourav Das as Feluda and Topse respectively. The film was released on 19 December 2014. It is the first film which stars Abir Chatterjee as Feluda. This was going to be a reboot to previous Feluda film series after Royal Bengal Rahashya. But in 2016 Sandip Ray cancelled the reboot series because Abir Chatterjee started a new version of film series based on Byomkesh Bakshi franchise under Shree Venkatesh Films and Surinder Films. The other reason was the new Feluda movie Sandip Ray intended to make under a Mumbai-based production house Eros International, but Abir has a strict contract with Shree Venkatesh Films and Surinder Films.
Chorabali is a 2016 Bengali Suspense Thriller film directed by Subhrajit Mitra and produced by Pradip Churiwal, starring Barun Chanda, June Malia, Sayani Datta and Shataf Figar. The film is based on Agatha Christie's novel Cards on the Table.
Double Feluda is a 2016 Bengali language crime thriller detective film, based on the Bengali sleuth Feluda, created by the acclaimed and renowned Oscar-winning director Satyajit Ray. It is the 19th film in the Feluda series. Directed by his son Sandip Ray, the film marks the comeback of both Sabyasachi Chakraborty and Saheb Bhattacharya, with the former returning to the eponymous role of Feluda and the latter playing his sidekick. This is a sequel of Royal Bengal Rahashya (2011). The film was released on 16 December 2016 to mark the 50th anniversary of the iconic creation. The film is based on two Feluda stories - Samaddarer Chabi and Golokdham Rahasya.
Avijatrik is a 2021 Bengali-language drama film, written and directed by Subhrajit Mitra and produced by Gaurang Jalan, co-produced by Madhur Bhandarkar. The screenplay is based on the novel Aparajito by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. The film was released under the banner of Gaurang Films and Bhandarkar Entertainment. This is a sequel and concluding part of the Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy.
Supratim Bhol is an Indian cinematographer known majorly for his works in Hindi cinema and Bengali cinema. He is a member of ISC and has also worked in other regional language features and long length films in Haryanvi, Odia and Chhattisgarhi. Supratim an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) debuted as a Cinematographer with the film Colours of Innocence (2016), a National Award winner and this gave him his first nomination at Filmfare Awards East in 2017. His remarkable works till now are Panchlait, national award winner Avijatrik, FIPRESCI award winner Aparajito, Abyakto, Lomad and national award winner Dada Lakhmi. Suprartim won the 68th National Film Awards for Best Cinematography for Avijatrik and also Filmfare Award East in 2021.