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Abhijit Dasgupta (1946-present)

Abhijit Dasgupta
(1946-present)

Since his childhood, Abhijit Dasgupta was closely associated with Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen. He had family ties with SD Burman and RD Burman. His first film was on a bench in the Rabindra Sarovar Lakes. That won the Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai award which was given in Japan for the Best Amateur Film in the 60s. A student of South Point and Andrews School, he joined the City College (evening). During the mornings, he worked at The Statesman in the 1960s for a stipend of Rs 100 per month. Subsequently, he joined the All India Radio Television. On April 1, 1976, All India Radio Television was ...

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Kolkata

This was his first documentary and was telecast on August 9, 1975. That was the first day of AIR-TV's Calcutta telecast.

Radhakanta Library - The Lost Athenaeum

Filmography

Kolkata (1975)
Sagar - Where Souls Meet (1978)
And in Joy Flows (1979)
Radhakanta Library - The Lost Athenaeum
Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky
Ocean to Sky (1979)
Khairi (1979)
The Unfinished Story (1983)
The Sitar (1984)
History of Bengali Cinema
Vana Bani
High Impressions - Sky impressions
When Solitude Does Write
Something Old Something New
Chau at the Crossroads
Blood - Rhymes of Life
Robi Babur Gaan
To Make The Grass Greener
Challenging Heights
Sagarmatha
Mission of Love
Jele Parar Song
Nicobar and Beyond
Century of Sound
From Marshland to Modern Town
200 years of Fort William
Mrinal Sen
Bauls: The Roving Minstrels of Bengal
Cavalry Forward
Ananda
Madhubani - A Timeless Motif
Safari
Thrills on Wheels
Cradle of Love
Searching for the Religion of Man
The Great Swan
A Gift Unopened
All for God's Love
E Gari Cholchey Aajob Koley
Hush - If They Hear
Kolkata Protests
Swamiji
The Jail
The Pen and The Brush
Where is Uma
Asean (2004)
Metamorphosis
Birangana Kahini
Selim Munshi
Natak Itihas Darpan
Durga Puja Down the Ages
Bangla Theatre - The Jatras
Bangla Theatre - The Experimental Groups
Bangla Theatre - a Brief History I & II
Bangla Theater - The Mainstream groups
Bangla Theatre - Post-independence
Malaise of Mankind
The Intuitive Scientist
The Poet and The Patriot
Health Care? Who Cares?
Rani Bahini
Beyond Belief I - VIII

Awards

The Sitar won 1984's Best documentary for National Television Awards. The Unfinished Story won the the DD J N Gaur Memorial National Award for Best Documentary.
High Impressions- Sky Impressions won the Eurovision Award.
Bauls: The Roving Minstrels of Bengal won the Raduga Award for Best Documentary in USSR.
The Jail won the Best Documentary at the Golden Gate SF in 2009, Best Script Strasbourgh International in 2009, Best Script and Best Documentary at the International Documentary festival Chennai, Best Screenplay at Punta Del Este International festival, Best Integral Realization at Punta Del Este.
Madhubani - A Timeless Motif won the Best Documentary in 1981 from Bengal Film Journalists' Association (BFJA).
Something Old Something New won the Prix Jeunesse award in Germany.
Beyond Belief I - VIII was the Best Documentary at the Festival De Cinema de Paris and Festival Du Cinema Du Bruxelles. It won the award for Best Integral Realization (Chicago) and Best Direction Festival De Cinema De Granada and Best Photography (New York).

Did You Know?

His Malaise of Mankind has some chilling accounts of survivors of trafficking. A lady who became a slave for three years before being rescued spoke about how she was asked to bathe in turmeric water if her body ached due to incessant sexual and physical abuse. Another spoke about the ordeal at a police station. "I was told that it was I who had seduced the boy. Even the chair where I was sitting was snatched away. They said: 'She will dirty the chair too! Move away. Sit outside'," she said in this hard-hitting documentary.