Born in Sialkot, Bansi Chandragupta studied in Srinagar. The iconic art director with Kashmri Pandit lineage always wanted to be a painter. After school, he met Rabindranath Tagore's nephew Subho Tagore who was himself a painter and an art collector. It was on Subho's advice that he shifted base to Kolkata and took up residence at his apartment in the Metropolitan Building. While in the city, he was introduced to the Calcutta Group of Painters. During this time, he met the young Satyajit Ray. Along with Ray, Chidananda Dasgupta, Hari Sadhan Dasgupta and Subrata Mitra, Bansi founded the Calcutta Film Society in 1947.Besides the art ...

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