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Ladly Mukhopadhaya
Ladly Mukhopadhaya
Ladly Mukhopadhaya's Leftist family background influenced him to make inroads into the world of art and culture. His father helped him get exposure to different kinds of films. He entered his professional space by assisting Gautam Chattopadhyay, Aparna Sen, Mrinal Sen and Sanat Kumar Dasgupta. His work has taken him all over India and abroad. He started his career with NDTV, shifted to Doordarshan and then, ETV. He has also worked with ZEE TV, AKASH BANGLA and NE TV. Over the years, he has directed television programmes, telefilms, training films, documentaries (over 200), corporate films, commercials/ ad films, music videos and feature films. In many of ...
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Filmography
- Tribes of Tripura (1991)
- Aksharnama (1992)
- Dui Kanya (1995)
- Bankura Unlimited (1997)
- Beach Comber's Diary (1996)
- Little Magazines in Bangla (2005)
- Nandigram. This Land is Mine (2007)
- Tripura's Wildlife Sanctuaries (2005)
- Tripura's Success Diary (2005)
- A series of 12 documentaries on Rabindranath Tagore's works ( 2005 -2008)
- Whose Land is it Anyway? (2007)
- A series of 48 films on 11 tribes of Sikkim (2007-2009)
- Six training films for ministry of Panchayati Raj (2007-2011)
- Mela - A Sub-marginal Potpourrie (2008)
- The Honest Theatre A Quest (2009)
- Aachuley? Victory to You? (2010)
- A documentary film on rural computer training activities of CDAC, India, (2012)
- Visva-Bharati - The Heritage (2011)
- A documentary on Purulia's tribal girls who resisted underage marriage (2013)
- Khepar Mon Bridabon (2014)
- Nachni
- Anugato Kolkata
- Kabi Arun Mitra
Awards
- His Nachni received the Best Documentary Film of the Year by the Bengal Film Journalists' Association (BFJA) and was enlisted in Indian Panorama. It was also awarded in the Art and Culture Section of the International Leipzig Film Festival.
- Anugato Kolkata received the Special Jury Award at Colombo's Festival of South Asian Documentaries and Short Films in 1992.
- His Kabi Arun Mitra, a black-and-white documentation of the famous Bengali poet's life and work, was awarded in the Art and Culture section of the International Leipzig Film Festival in 1993.
- Whose Land is it Anyway? was selected as the Best Film award in Lyon (France) in 2008.
- Mela - A Sub-Marginal Potpourrie, 50 minute-long 2008 film on Bengal's hidden rural fairs won the Special Jury award at the Strasbourg festival.
- Khepar Mon Brindabon was awarded at the Canada International Film Festival.
Did You Know?
Ladly has a substantial body of work of both fiction and non-fiction work for Bengali television. He directed Hochhe Ta Ki, Loktantra Votetantra, Janaganamana and Nirman for Indian television channels. He also worked as a senior director for Khas Khobor. For Bangladesh Television, he directed Hassan (1994). It was a documentary on renowned novelist Hassan Azizul Haque.