Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
Bandopadhyay in February 2007
Born(1970-08-28)28 August 1970
Died7 November 2015(2015-11-07) (aged 45)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
OccupationDirector
Years active2003–2015

Bappaditya Bandopadhyay or Bappaditya Banerjee (Bengali: বাপ্পাদিত্য ব্যানার্জী; 28 August 1970 – 7 November 2015) was an Indian film director and poet.

Career

Bandopadhyay was the recipient of the Most Promising Director award for the year 2003, by the BFJA (Bengal Film Journalists' Association). His second feature film Silpantar (Colours of Hunger) was premiered at the Sofia International Film Festival, Bulgaria. The film was selected in the competitive section of the International Film Festival Bratislava in 2003. It was the only Indian film other than Devdas selected at the 2003 Helsinki International Film Festival. Debashree Roy won the Kalakar Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film.

Bappaditya Bandopadhyay’s first feature film Sampradan (The Offering of the Daughter) was selected in the competitive section of the 6th Dhaka International Film Festival, 2000. The film won three major awards in the categories of Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Female Playback Singer in the BFJA Awards that year. It also won the Dishari Award in the category of Best Music Director.

His third feature film Devaki, starring Perizaad Zorabian and Suman Ranganathan, two Bollywood actresses, in English and Hindi was released in 2006. The film was selected and screened at the Indian Osean section of the 7th Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival. The film was in the competition section in the Temecula Valley International Film Festival and the Idaho International Film Festival. It also won the Best Feature Film Award at the Asheville Film Festival.[1]

Kantatar, the fourth feature film directed by Bandopadhyay was selected in the Asian competition of the 7th Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival. The film was also screened at the Raindance Film Festival in London.

Bandopadhyay also directed a television serial, Anandanagarir kathakata, on the architectural history of Kolkata for the Bengali television channel Alpha Bangla. His documentary on the tribal masks was broadcast by Doordarshan.

His film, Kagojer Bou, based on the novel of the same name by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, released in 2010.

He was a long time associate of the editor Dipak Mandal with whom he worked 2009 to 2015.

Bandopadhyay was also a poet. His published works include Pokader Atmiyasajan (Friends and Relatives of the Insects). He wrote regularly on the various aspects of modern cinema.[2]

Death

Bappaditya died of multiple organ failure on 7 November 2015 in Kolkata, aged 45.[3]

Filmography

The following is the list of films directed by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay. For many of these movies, Bappaditya Bandopadhyay is also credited for the story and screenplay:

Director

YearFilmLanguageCast
1999SampradanBengaliAnasua Majumder, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Joy Sengupta, Papiya Adhikari, Indrani Haldar
2002SilpantarBengaliSubhasish Mukherjee, Debashree Roy, Nemai Ghosh
2005DevakiHindiPerizaad Zorabian, Suman Ranganathan, Ram Kapoor
2006KantatarBengaliSreelekha Mitra, Rudranil Ghosh, Sudip Mukherjee, Nemai Ghosh
2007KaalBengaliChandreyee Ghosh, Sandhya Shetty, Dola Chakraborty, Samapika Debnath, Rudranil Ghosh
2009Houseful[4]BengaliProsenjit Chatterjee, Rimjhim Gupta, Nitya ganguly, Rwita Datta Chakraborty, Sreelekha Mitra
2011Kagojer BouBengaliPaoli Dam, Rahul, Priyanka, Rimjhim, Joy Sengupta. Bratya Basu, Gargi Roy Chowdhury, Nandini Ghoshal
2012Elar Char AdhyayBengaliIndraneil, Paoli Dam, Dipankar Dey, Barun Chanda, Rudranil Ghosh, Arunima Ghosh, Nitya Ganguly, Vikram Chatterjee
2013Nayika Sangbad(2013)BengaliArunima Ghosh, Indraneil Sengupta, Mumtaz Sorcer, Locket Chatterjee
2016Sohra BridgeBengaliPratik Sen, Niharika Singh, Barun Chanda, Moumita Mitra

References

  1. Sunayana Nadkarni (22 December 2005). "evaki promotes tale of her trauma". IBN. Archived from the original on 6 October 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2010.
  2. "Favorite Links". kantatar.tripod.com. Archived from the original on 8 April 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2008.
  3. "Film-maker Bappaditya Bandopadhyay passes away". The Times of India. 8 November 2015. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
  4. "Cinema News: Bappaditya Banerjee's House Full". Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
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