Tapan Sinha
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2 October 1924 Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (present day, Kolkata, West Bengal, India) |
| Died | 15 January 2009 (aged 84) Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Spouse(s) | Arundhati Devi |
| Children | Anindya Sinha |
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Tapan Sinha (2 October 1924 – 15 January 2009) was one of the most prominent Indian film directors of his time forming a legendary quartet with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen. He was primarily a Bengali filmmaker who worked both in Hindi cinema and Bengali cinema, directing films like Kabuliwala (1957), Louha-Kapat, Sagina Mahato (1970), Apon Jon (1968), Kshudhita Pashan and children's film Safed Haathi (1978) and Aaj Ka Robinhood. Sinha started his career in 1946, as a sound engineer with New Theatres film production house in Kolkata, then in 1950 left for England where he worked at Pinewood Studios for next two years, before returning home to start his six decade long career in Indian cinema, making films in Bengali, Hindi and Oriya languages, straddling genres from social realism, family drama, labour rights, to children's fantasy films. He was arguably the most uncompromising filmmaker outside the orbit of Parallel Cinema.
Sinha was born in Kolkata, West Bengal. His empathy for films began from his student life. He was admitted in the Durgacharan M. E. School of Bhagalpur in the fifth standard. Later it went on to become a secondary school. His Principal was Surendranath Gangopadhyay who happened to be Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s maternal uncle. He studied physics at the University of Patna and later earned an MSc at the University of Calcutta.
He married Indian actress Arundhati Devi. Their son is Indian scientist Professor, Anindya Sinha, On 15 January 2009, he died of pneumonia and septicaemia.
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