Utpalendu Chakrabarty

Utpalendu Chakrabarty (born 1948) is a Bengali Indian filmmaker and theater personality, based in Kolkata, India.

Life and career

He was born in Calcutta in 1948. He graduated from the Scottish Church College, of the University of Calcutta.^[1]

Chakrabarty was involved in politics in his student life and spent time in Purulia among the tribals. Although he started out as a teacher, his passion was cinema. He made several documentaries and films.

Filmography

Feature films

Prasab 1994
Chandaneer 1989
Phaansi 1988
Debshishu 1985
Chokh 1983
Maina Tadanta 1980

Television films

Dwibachan 1989
Sonar Chheye Dami 1989
Rang 1989
Bikalpa 1988
Aparichita 1986
Aparichita(Bengali) 2002
Kalo Patharer Itikatha(Balad of the black Stone)
Chua Chandan
May Day 2005

Documentaries

The Music of Satyajit Ray 1984
Debrata Biswas 1983
Mukti Chai 1977
Sunilo Sagore(On The Life of Sunil Gangopadhyay)

Writer

The Music of Satyajit Ray (documentary) 1984
Chokh (screenplay / story) 1983

Composer

Chokh 1983

Music director

Chhaturtha Panipather Juddha 1995

Awards

Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director at the 28th National Film Awards in 1980 for Maina Tadanta
National Film Award for Best Feature Film at the 30th National Film Awards in 1982 for Chokh
National Film Award for Best Direction at the 30th National Film Awards in 1982 for Chokh
Berlin International Film Festival OCIC Award in 1983 for Chokh
National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film at the 32nd National Film Awards in 1984 for Music of Satyajit Ray.

References

↑ Some Alumni of Scottish Church College in 175th Year Commemoration Volume. Scottish Church College, April 2008, page 591

External links

National Film Award for Best Direction

1967–1980	Satyajit Ray (1967) Satyajit Ray (1968) Mrinal Sen (1969) Satyajit Ray (1970) Girish Karnad and B. V. Karanth (1971) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1972) Mani Kaul (1973) Satyajit Ray (1974) Satyajit Ray (1975) P. Lankesh (1976) G. Aravindan (1977) G. Aravindan (1978) Mrinal Sen (1979) Mrinal Sen (1980)

1981–2000	Aparna Sen (1981) Utpalendu Chakrabarty (1982) Mrinal Sen (1983) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1984) Shyam Benegal (1985) G. Aravindan (1986) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1987) Shaji N. Karun (1988) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1989) Tapan Sinha (1990) Satyajit Ray (1991) Goutam Ghose (1992) T. V. Chandran (1993) Jahnu Barua (1994) Saeed Akhtar Mirza (1995) Agathiyan (1996) Jayaraj (1997) Rajeevnath (1998) Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1999) Rituparno Ghosh (2000)

2001–present	B. Lenin (2001) Aparna Sen (2002) Goutam Ghose (2003) Buddhadeb Dasgupta (2004) Rahul Dholakia (2005) Madhur Bhandarkar (2006) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (2007) Bala (2008) Rituparno Ghosh (2009) Vetrimaaran (2010) Gurvinder Singh (2011) Shivaji Lotan Patil (2012) Hansal Mehta (2013) Srijit Mukherji (2014) Sanjay Leela Bhansali (2015)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 21690803 LCCN: no00068945

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