Atanu Ghosh
Born
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Occupation(s)Film director, screenplay writer
Websiteatanughosh.in

Atanu Ghosh is an Indian filmmaker. His Bengali film Mayurakshi (2017) was awarded the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali.[1] His film Angshumaner Chhobi, Mayurakshi, Binisutoy, Abby Sen and Rupkatha Noy, bagged multiple Awards.He was born on 12 August 1969 in Kolkata, West Bengal. One of his Bengali movies named Mayurakshi was awarded as the Best Feature Film in Bengali. Atanu started his career as a scriptwriter and director for documentary films in 1996. For his work in Aar Ek Bampi, he received the Doordarshan National Awards for Best Children's Telefilm.

Biography

Right from his debut feature film, Atanu's films have been widely shown in most prominent film festivals across the world. Winner of numerous national and international awards, his works reflect an urge for exploring unique complexities of human behaviour pitted against the backdrop of rapidly changing society. His films are known for perceptual precision and economy of expression.

After completing post-graduation in journalism from the University of Calcutta, Ghosh started his career in 1996 as scriptwriter and director of documentary films. Thereafter, he branched out to fictional serials and telefilms.

He received the Doordarshan National Award for Best Children's telefilm Aar ek Bampi in 2002. Another telefilm, Akashchhoan, was selected for the 10th International Kolkata Film Festival, 2004. Sumitra Online was selected for the Telesamman Award for the Best Telefilm of 2005, and Asamapto for Best Direction in 2006. Megh Brishti Rodh fetched him the coveted RAPA Award for Best screenplay. He was awarded the prestigious Shyamal Sen Smriti Samman in 2008.

Ghosh wrote a play for National School of Drama, New Delhi entitled "Ruh-ba-Ruh" directed by Kaushik Sen. He has directed some 23 telefilms. Ghosh has also worked as scriptwriter and editor for many eminent directors. Also, he has directed over 30 documentary and corporate films for many reputed organisations. His debut feature film, Angshumaner Chhobi (2009) was selected in the Indian Panorama of the International Film Festival of India (2009) as well as in Competitive Section, was awarded the prestigious Aravindan Puraskaram for the Best debut film of 2009, the Lankesh Chitra Prashasti (Karnataka State Award for India's Best Debut Director ) Bengal Film Journalist Award as well as Audience Award (Rainbow Film Festival, London) besides 13 other national and international awards. Takhan Teish was his second film, which was released in 2011. It was screened at film festivals in Shanghai, Osaka and other places. His third film Rupkatha Noy (2013) was nominated for the FIPRESCI Award[2] for Best Indian Film 2013, was officially selected in many film festivals including Shanghai International Film Festival,[3]

Dhaka International Film Festival and many others. It received four Filmfare Awards[4] including Best Film (Critics Choice), Best Actor (Critics Choice) - Soumitra Chatterjee, Best Debut Actress (Sohini Sarkar), Best Female Playback Singer (Anwesha Dutta Gupta). His fourth film, Ek Phaali Rodh (2014), had its World Premiere at Shanghai International Film Festival[5] in June 2014.

He received a National Film Award[6] in the Best Film category for his 2018 movie Mayurakshi. His sixth film Mayurakshi received four Filmfare Awards[7] including Best Film (Critics Choice), Best Actor (Critics Choice) - (Soumitra Chatterjee), Best Actor (Popular Choice)- (Prosenjit Chatterjee), Best Background Score (Debojyoti Mishra). Mayurakshi was awarded the prestigious Chitra Bharathi for the Best Indian Cinema Award of 2018,[8] the WBFJA (West Bengal Film Journalists' Association)[9] for Best Film, Best Actor (Soumitra Chatterjee), Best Actor (Prosenjit Chatterjee) besides 3 international nominations.

Filmography

Feature films

Telefilms

The following is the list of telefilms directed by Atanu Ghosh. For all but one of these telefilms, Atanu Ghosh is also credited for the story and screenplay:

YearFilmLanguageCast & Note
2003DishaBengaliLocket Chatterjee, Pijush Ganguly, Bhaskar Banerjee & Kamalika Banerjee.
2003WeekendBengali

Aparajita Auddy, Krishnakishore Mukherjee, Suchandra Chowdhury & Bhaswar Chatterjee.

2003SHRISTICHARABengaliBhiswa Guha Thakurata, Sunil Mukherjee & Bhaskar Banerjee
2003Amriter PutraBengalilLocket Chatterjee, Kharaj Mukherjee, Suman Banerjee (Selected in 2nd Kolkata Telefilm Festival)
2003AkashchhoyaBengaliGargi Roychowdhury, Pijush Ganguly, Kamalika Banerjee (Selected in 2nd Kolkata Telefilm Festival. Selected in 10th Kolkata International Film Festival, 2004).
2004700 Square FtBengaliBadsha Moitra, Rudranil Ghosh, Rituparna Sen (Selected in 2nd Kolkata Telefilm Festival. Nominated as Best Telefilm of the year in the Anandolok Puraskar,2004).
2004Sumitra OnlineBengaliMamatashankar, Biswajit Chakrabarty, Goutam De (Winner of Telesamman for Best Telefilm of 2004)
2004Gabhir AsukhBengaliKrishnakishore Mukherjee, Aparajita Auddy, Bhiswa Guha Thakurata, Debesh Roychowdhury.
2004KantaBengaliSwastika Mukherjee, Kaushik Sen, Sudipta Chakrabarty (Nominated for Best Actress (Swastika Mukherjee) in the Indo-Bangladesh Kala Music Awards, 2005)
2005DeadlineBengaliParambrato Chatterjee, Aparajita Ghosh Das, Suchandra Chowdhury & Biswajit Chakrabarty
2005Megh Bristi RodhBengaliKaushik Sen, Swastika Mukherjee, Badsha Moitra, Rajat Ganguly (winner of RAPA Award for Best screenplay)
2005ManthanBengaliSabyasachi Chakrabarty, Mallika Majumdar, Diganta, Indrani Bose, Bhaskar Banerjee
2005AsomaptoBengaliSoumitra Chatterjee, Indrani Halder, Kaushik Sen, Bishwanath Bose .(Winner of Tellysamman for Best Direction 2006)
2005MishraraagBengaliIndrani Halder, Kaushik Sen, Badsha Moitra, Aparajita Auddy, Bhaskar Banerjee and Supriya Devi
2006Aaro Ek PrithibiBengaliIndrani Halder, Badsha Moitra, Rajatava Dutta, Kanchana Moitra
2006Aaloy PheraBengaliIndrani Halder, Shiladitya Patranobish (Winner of Tellysamman for Best Actress – Indrani Halder – 2007; Nominated for Tellysamman for Best Telefilm of 2007)
2006AnkushBengaliSoumitra Chatterjee, Indrani Halder, Badsha Moitra, Parambrato Chatterjee(Nominated for Best Telefilm in Anandalok Puraskar 2007)
2007Roopkatha NoyBengaliKaushik Sen, Koninika Banerjee, Suchandra Chowdhury & Sourabh Das
2007ParamparaBengaliGoutam De, Arunodoy, Priyanka
2007Premer GalpoBengaliKaushik Sen, Indrani Halder, Biswanath Bose
2008Adhara MadhuriBengaliBhaswar Chatterjee, Neel Mukherjee, Aparajita Ghosh Das and Indrani Halder
2009Parokiya 2000BengaliKaushik Sen, Anjana Basu, Kushal Chakrabarty

Others

Notable films/serials/documentaries:

  • Banglar Swadeshi Gaan – a 3-episode series on the patriotic songs of Bengal to commemorate 50 years of Indian independence
  • Ebong Computer – a 10 episode fictional series on computers
  • Aatanka – a 40 min fictional film on AIDS awareness
  • Chalti Hawa – a 10 episode musical series on Bengali Band music
  • Goenda Poribar – a 52 episode fiction series
  • Icchedana – a 26 episode science fiction series for children
  • Ardhek Prithibi – a 26 episode fiction series
  • Abaak Prithibi – a 26 episode fiction series

References

  1. ↑ "Atanu Ghosh on his film Mayurakshi winning National Award: I hope more people will see it now". 21 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Fandry wins FIPRESCI-India Film Critics Award for Best Indian Film 2013 - DearCinema.com". Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "The 17Th Shanghai International Film Festival". Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  4. ↑ Filmfare Awards East
  5. ↑ "The 17Th Shanghai International Film Festival". Archived from the original on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  6. ↑ 65th National Film Awards
  7. ↑ "Filmfare Award East 2018 Winners - List of Bengali Filmfare Award Winners".
  8. ↑ "Mani Ratnam gifts ₹10 lakh to groom young filmmakers". The Hindu. March 2018.
  9. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 June 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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