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Anjan Bose
Anjan Bose
Anjan Bose pursued a degree in law after graduating in arts from the Calcutta University. Grandson of Anadinath Bose and son of Ajit Bose who were the pillars of Aurora Film Corporation that is recognized as India's oldest film producing, distributing and exhibiting house, Anjan is now the managing director of Aurora Film Corporation Private Limited. Anjan got his first documentary, An Encounter, censored in 1981. It was on an officer at the Geological Survey of India whose arms had been chopped off in an accident. The film was screened at the Indian Panorama in 1982. Subsequently, he directed and produced some 50 documentaries. A number ...
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Filmography
- An Encounter (1981)
- Koranga Karu Shilpa (1988)
- Chhow Nritya (1988)
- Soharae - A Tribal Festival (1990)
- Karam O Khera-Kheri (1991)
- The Procession (1993)
- The Land of Lepchas (1997)
- Rajbanshi (1998)
- Panchmura (1998)
- Sons of Himalaya's Khombu (2001)
- Sons of Himalaya's Tamang (2001)
- Sons of Himalaya's Limbu (2002)
- Sons of Himalaya's Gurung (2002)
- Sons of Himalaya's Sherpa (2002)
- Era of Legendary Studios (2017)
- Matinee Idols of Indian Cinema (2017)
- Niranjan Pradhan - A Journey of a Sculptor (2019)
- Sri Chaitanya Chitrarekha - The Legacy of Art on Sri Chaitanya (2019)
Awards
- The Procession won the Best Information Film at the 31st National Awards in 1983. He won a Silver Lotus (Rajat Kamal) for "portraying the innocence of the Indian villager and making a political comment, with telling images of evocative sensitivity that needs no words". This film was also awarded by Bengal Film Journalists' Association.
- In The Land of Lepchas, directed by him and Manas Chowdhari, won the Best Ethnographic/ Anthropological Film at the 45th National Awards in 1997. Anjan won a Silver Lotus (Rajat Kamal) for "the simple and humane depiction of life and values of the Lepcha tribe".
- Aurora Bioscope 2018 received the Van Gogh Award at the Amsterdam Film Festival in 2018. Anjan has received the Special Film Award from the government of West Bengal in 2013.
- At the 43rd National Awards in 1995, Aurora's production, A Living Legend, received the Best Biographical Film for "portraying with sincerity the life of an educationist and parliamentarian Prof. Hiren Mukherjee".
- His Sabak Chabir Abak Golpo received the Best Documentary Film Award from the Bengal Film Journalists' Association in 2005.
- He is also the recipient of the Bisesh Chalachchitra Puraskar from the West Bengal government in 2013.
Did You Know?
Few know that Anjan was barred from making cinema during his youth. His father was not allowed to direct cinema either. He, in turn, did not want to let Anjan direct. However, Anjan was not ready to accept it. Finally, his father relented in 1981. He decided to experiment and see if he could make a documentary with only music and sound effects and no voice-over. An Encounter is a product of that experiment.
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