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Gautam Chattopadhyay
Gautam Chattopadhyay
Photo courtesy: Minati Chattopadhyay and Gaurab Chatterjee
Gautam Chattopadhyay always wanted to be a film-maker. In the 50 years of his life where he directed four feature films (Nagmoti, Shomoy, Letter To Mom and Rongbin), the cult musician was also a prolific documentary maker. Unfortunately, most of his documentary works are not available for viewing now.In 1979, he had worked as an associate for Georges Luneau's Le chant des fous (Songs of the Madmen). It was a film on the bauls of Bengal. The same year also saw Luneau filming The Konarak Temple. Gautam had worked ...
Filmography
- The Primal Call (1979)
- The Juvenile Delinquents
- Habib Tanvir and his Naya Theatre
- Raibenshe (1985)
- Towards an Ecological Body and Mind (1988)
- Flower Power (1989)
- Lost Empires (1990)
- Suprabhat
- Documentaries on Barin Saha and Badal Sircar
- 10-odd documentaries for UNICEF and 40-odd documentaries for others whose details are not readily available
Awards
- While he received a National Award for Nagmoti, Gautam didn't bother to apply for awards as far as his documentaries are concerned.
Did You Know?
A contemporary dancer from Canada, Kaberi Das had come down to study at the Jadavpur University. Gautam had cast her in the protagonist's role for his feature film titled Shomoy. It was with her that he directed a documentary on Indian contemporary dance form for Doordarshan.
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