Filmography

• Coal for The Masses (1978) 
• Economy of HS Oil in Railways (1980) 
• Calcutta Footpath Dweller (1981) 
• The Tribal Resistance (1987) 
• Calcutta, Past and Present (1987) 
• Scroll Painters of Birbhum (1989) 
• Towards a Global Breakthrough (1991) 
• Jiban Patua (1993) 
• Ashray (1993) 
• Vidyasagar (1993) 
• Beyond a Head Count 
• Kalighat Paintings and Drawings (2002) 
• Mural Paintings of Orissa (2003) 
• Nachni (Dancing Girls of Rural Bengal) (2005) 
• Ananda Yatra (2008) 
• The Enchanted Desk (2008) 
• Mobile Motif (2009) 
• A Journey from Regional to National 
• An Author Speaks (2015)

Awards

• Raja Mitra's Scroll Painters of Birbhum won the Best Arts/Cultural Film at the 36th National Awards in 1988 for "portraying with sensitivity and insight the vanishing tribe of the Muslim scroll painters whose essentially secular art harmonizes painting and singing".
• His Jataner Jami was adjudged the Best Non-Feature Film at the 45th National Awards for the best of Indian cinema in 1997. Raja won a Golden Lotus (Swarna Kamal) for "moving portrayal of a landless peasants' empowerment and his ultimate betrayal". The film's editor, Ujjal Nandy, received the National Award in Best Editing for "seamless and rhythmic flow of visual images, juxtaposing hope and despair in a harmonious aesthetic".
• Raja received a Silver Lotus (Rajat Kamal) for Best Music direction for Kalighat Paintings and Drawings at the 50th National Awards for a "simple yet engaging music track that brings alive the Kalighat paintings in the film of the same title". This film received a Special Mention certificate at the 50th National Awards among the best of Indian cinema in 2002 for "its significant achievement in documenting the rich artistic tradition and its implicit social commentary".

Did You Know?

He, along with Goutam Ghose, had formed a company named Gra Films to make documentaries. "Under this banner, we primarily made newsreels produced by the government of West Bengal," Mitra said.

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