Amiya Chakravarty

Amiya Chakravarty ( Bengali অমিয় চক্রবর্তী Amiẏa Cakrabartī ; born November 30, 1912 in Rangpur or Bogra , † March 6, 1957 in Bombay ) was an Indian screenwriter, director and producer of Hindi films .

As a child, Chakravarty was a singer and actor on stage. He was politically active in the early 1930s. He was arrested during the Salt Satyagraha in 1930 and forced to leave Bengal in 1935 .

He came to the film company Bombay Talkies probably through a job as a tutor for the son of the screenwriter Niranjan Pal . In 1940 Chakravarty wrote his first screenplay for Punar Milan . After the death of the studio founder Himansu Rai , his widow Devika Rani commissioned him to direct the film Anjaan (1941) with her and the male Bombay talkies star Ashok Kumar . Amiya Chakravarty was assigned to one of the two production units of the film company as director and remained true to Franz Osten's cinematic tradition . After the spin-off of the other production unit around director Gyan Mukherjeeand the founding of the new Filmistan company in 1942, Chakravarty became the principal director on Bombay Talkies. With Basant (1942) and Jwar Bhata (1944) he made the debut films of Mumtaz Shanti , Madhubala and Dilip Kumar . At Girl's School (1949) Guru Dutt assisted him as an assistant director.

In the late 1940s, Chakravarty left Bombay Talkies and started his own film production company under the name Mars & Movies. This company produced Daag (1952), Patita (1953) and Seema (1955) , among others . He received a Filmfare Award for his screenplay for Seema .

Amiya Chakravarty died while filming Kathputli (1957). The film was completed by Nitin Bose .

Footnotes

1. ↑ so in Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , New Delhi 1994
2. ↑ so in IMDb

Web links

• Amiya Chakravarty in the Internet Movie Database (English)