Subrata Mitra
Subrata Mitra ( Bengali : সুব্রত মিত্র , Subrata Mitra ; * October 12, 1930 in Kolkata ; † December 7, 2001 there ) was an Indian cameraman . He brought modern aesthetics to Indian film .
Even as a school kid, Subrata Mitra was infatuated with British and Hollywood films. That's why he decided early on to become a cameraman or an architect. As Jean Renoir in 1950 his film The River ( The power ) in Kolkata turned, Mitra was on the set to study, to watch the film work, and keep a record. There he met the graphic designer Satyajit Ray , who shared Mitra's interests. Ray planned to make a movie himself and took Subrata Mitra as his cameraman. The film Pather Panchali was made over the course of four years of production time, during which the money kept running out . Over the course of 15 years, Ray and Mitra made ten films together. In Aparajito (1956) he simulated in the studio for the first time in Indian film and as one of the first cameramen ever, diffuse light through indirect lighting in order to avoid shadows - as realistically as possible.
Subrata Mitra worked on four films for Merchant Ivory Productions in the 1960s. In addition to the 1986 National Film Award for New Delhi Times , he received the 1992 Eastman Kodak Lifetime Achievement Award for excellent cinema.
Filmography
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literature
- Peter Ettedgui: Film Arts: Camera. German by Ulrich Knest. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-499-60661-5 .
Web links
- Subrata Mitra in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography at cinematographers.nl
- Biography at satyajitray.org
- Biography at upperstall.com
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| SURNAME | Miter, Subrata |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolkata |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 7, 2001 |
| Place of death | Kolkata |