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Santi P Chowdhury
Santi P Chowdhury
Photo courtesy: Behula Chowdhury
Santi P Chowdhury was a major independent documentary film-maker. He studied first at the Presidency College and then went to Glasgow University. He was actively involved in the British film society movement. In between, he worked with Satyajit Ray from 1955 to 57. He had founded the Little Cinema film unit in Kolkata in 1958 which made over 100 shorts independent of government support. Among his early documentaries, To Light a Candle and Entertainers of Rajasthan stand out for the attention to detail and ability to portray still life properly. Later he made a series where he featured the likes of Rabindranath Tagore, Paritosh ...
Filmography
- Songs of Bengal (1957)
- Virsa and the Magic Doll (1958)
- Their New Roots (1959)
- Rabindranather Santiniketan (1960)
- Lokshilpey Terracottay Ramayan (1961)
- Banglar Mandirey Terracotta (1961)
- Rabindranather Chitrakala (1962)
- Your Home Defence: Home Guards (1963)
- The Met the Challenge (1963)
- Science for Children (1963)
- Handicrafts of Assam (1964)
- To Light a Candle (1964)
- Madhabir Biya (1964)
- Folk Instruments of Rajasthan (1965)
- Songs of Punjab (1965)
- A City in History (1966)
- Calcutta (1966)
- Calcutta Electrocine (1966)
- To Share and To Learn (1967)
- Handicrafts of Rajasthan (1967)
- Benarasi's Secret (1968)
- Entertainers of Rajasthan (1968)
- Heerer Prajapati (1968)
- Securalism (1969)
- Action for Calcutta (1971)
- An Indian Journey (1971)
- Biju in Hyderabad (1971)
- Seeds of the Green Revolution (1971)
- The Other Caluctta (1971)
- Working Together (1971)
- Dakshina Haryana (1972)
- Green Horizon (1972)
- Indian Engineering (1972)
- ITC Tube: The Lifetimer (1972)
- Janasanthsa (1972)
- Mughal Gardens Pinjore (1972)
- After Ten Years (1973)
- An Environment (1973)
- Asia '72 (1974)
- A Painter of Our Times (1974)
- Search for Self-Reliance (1975)
- We're Building an IOL Pipeline for You (1976)
- Parvati (1977)
- Banglar Kabigan (1978)
- The Magic Hands (1978)
- Husain (1980)
- Pahar Theke Shahar (1980)
- Region of Harmony (1980)
- Seven (1980)
- Subho Tagore (1981)
- Racing in India (1982)