Tapan Sinha
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), ''
Apanjan'' (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, labor rights, to children's fantasy films. He was one of the acclaimed filmmakers of
Parallel Cinema movement of India.
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