Ramananda Sengupta

Cinematographer Ramananda Sengupta was born in Dhaka's Autshahi village in 1916. His father, Satish Chandra Sengupta, had a transferable job. An engineer by qualification, Satish used to work in the Madras South End Maratha Railways. Some years of Ramananda's childhood were spent in Andhra Pradesh's Tuni. In 1925, Ramananda was admitted to Santiniketan. He studied there till 1928. After his father's demise, the family shifted to Dhaka’s Narinda and Swamibaag. It was after his elder brother, Jyotish Chandra Sengupta, got appointed as a professor of Presidency College that his mother shifted with her other sons to Kolkata. The family took up accommodation at Bhowanipore's Shahnagar Road. Ramananda got married in 1947. The newly-married couple first stayed at Bijoygarh's refugee colony. In the late 1940s, they shifted to a house in Jubilee Park where his son was born. Ramananda's father-in-law gifted him five cottahs of land in a part of their ancestral garden house in Garia. That's where Ramananda built his first house in 1961. In 1970, he shifted to his own house on Golf Club Road and lived there till his demise at the age of 101 in 2017.