Gyan Mukherjee
| Gyan Mukherjee | |
|---|---|
| Born |
30 September 1909 Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh |
| Died | 13 November 1956 (aged 47) Calcutta, West Bengal |
| Occupation | film director and screenwriter |
| Years active | 1930s–1956 |
Gyan Mukherjee (30 September 1909 – 13 November 1956) was an Indian film director and screenwriter, who worked in Hindi cinema, most known for hits Jhoola (1941) and Kismet (1943).
Mukherjee was born on 30 September 1909 in Benares. He graduated with a degree in science.
Mukherjee started his career with New Theatres in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and subsequently joined Bombay Talkies as a supervising technician. Soon became a trendsetter of "formula film" starting with first directorial venture Geeta (1940) based on the theme, "Crime-doesn't-pay", "Boy meets girl" was used in Jhoola (1941).
In 1943, he reused the formula of Geeta to direct the biggest hit of his career, Kismet (1943), which also add another formula of "lost-and-found", which remained popular for several decades in Hindi films. The film had Ashok Kumar, the leading star of the era, playing an anti-hero and also appearing in a double role. The film had a strong-anti British sentiment and also featured the noted patriotic song, "Door hato O Duniya walon, Hindustan Hamara Hai" (Leave People of World, India is Ours) by Kavi Pradeep, and went on to run at Roxy Cinema in Calcutta for 3 years and 8 months.Subhash K. Jha has called Kismet as one of the most influential films of all times" in Indian cinema.
After death of Himanshu Rai, founder of Bombay Talkies Studio in 1940, a group led by producer Sashadhar Mukherjee along with production controller Rai Bahadur Chunilal, actor Ashok Kumar and Mukherjee, broke away to establish the Filmistan studio in March 1943 at the premises of old Sharada Movietone studios in Goregaon, Mumbai. He retouched the concept of anti-hero in Sangram (1950), today his works are seen as early depictions of the underworld and the anti-hero in Indian cinema.
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