Amit Bose
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| Native name | अमित बोस |
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26 February 1930 Jamshedpur, Bihar, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Residence | London, UK |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Visva-Bharati University |
| Occupation | filmmaker |
| Spouse(s) | Monica |
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Amit Bose (born 26 February 1930) is an Indian filmmaker, film director and editor, who directed all-time classics like Abhilasha (1968) and, as an Editor, worked on movies like Madhumati (1958), Sujata (1959), Parakh (1960), Usne Kaha Tha (1960), Kabuliwala (1961), Prem Patra (1962), Bandini (1963) and Shakespeare Wallah (1965). He worked as Chief Film Editor for Bimal Roy and with several other directors including Sanjay Khan.
Bose was born in Jamshedpur/Bihar, India. His grandfather was the geologist Pramatha Nath Bose, who discovered rich iron ores, that made the Empire of J.R.D. Tata possible, which today belong to the Tata Group. His mother Meera Devi (born Sharma) was a Bengali actress. After her first marriage ended in divorce, she married the famous classical singer and actor Pahari Sanyal), who was like a father toBoset. Amit's name was given by Rabindranath Tagore, who was a cousin of Bose's mother in Kolkata.
As a child Bose was a student in Rabindranath Tagore's open-air institution Visva Bharati in Bolpur, Santiniketan. As a young man he took his first steps in the film industry in 1946 in Kolkata. He worked as an assistant to the famous Film Director Nimai Ghosh during the making of Chinna Mul ("Broken Branch" - a movie reflecting the up-rooting of the nation during the Great Famine). This film won several awards, both in India and abroad. It is still hailed as one of the great classics of Indian Cinema. Bose then went to Mumbai and worked as an assistant to the Director Phani Majumdar at Bombay Talkies Studios in Malad, in 1947. He also appeared in a bit-part in Majumdar's film Tamasha, which starred the Great Indian Screen Heroine of all time, Meena Kumari.
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