What type of profession does Utpala Sen and Hemanta Mukherjee have in common?
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Utpala Sen Utpala Sen (12 March 1924 - 13 May 2005) was a prominent Indian Bengali playback singer. She was a very popular playback singer in the 1950s alongside Sandhya Mukherjee, Pratima Banerjee and Alpana Banerjee etc. She has sung numerous duets with prominent male singers such as Hemanta Mukherjee, Manna Dey and also her husband, Satinath Mukherjee.
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Hemanta Mukherjee Hemanta Mukherjee ((16 June 1920 – 26 September 1989); often credited as Hemant Kumar outside Bengal) was an Indian playback singer, music director and film producer, who sang in Bengali, Hindi and other Indian languages. He is also the greatest artist of Rabindra Sangeet. He won two National awards for the category best male playback singer. He is often credited as one of the greatest Indian singers of all time for his unparalleled manly voice.
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Uttam Kumar Uttam Kumar (3 September 1926– 24 July 1980) (born as Arun Kumar Chatterjee) was an Indian film actor, director, producer, singer and music composer, playback singer who predominantly worked in Indian Cinema.
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Saheb Bibi Golam (Film) Saheb Bibi Golam is a 1956 Bengali film directed by Kartik Chatterjee. It is based on a Bengali novelist Bimal Mitra's novel of the same name. The film explores the tragic fall of feudalism in Bengal during the British Raj. The title of the movie and the story is a reference to the plot simultaneously exploring a platonic relationship between a beautiful, forlorn wife of an aristocrat and a career-driven clerk. The film stars Sumitra Devi, Uttam Kumar and Chhabi Biswas in the lead.
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Ratan Lal Basu Ratan Lal Basu (Bengali: রতন লাল বসু; born 23 December 1948) is an economist and English fiction author from Kolkata, India.
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Bhupen Hazarika Bhupen Hazarika was an Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, singer, poet and film-maker from Assam, widely known as Sudhakantha. His songs, written and sung mainly in the Assamese language by himself, are marked by humanity and universal brotherhood and have been translated and sung in many languages, most notably in Bengali and Hindi. His songs, based on the themes of communal amity, universal justice and empathy, have become popular among the people of Assam, besides West Bengal and Bangladesh. He is also acknowledged to have introduced the culture and folk music of Assam and Northeast India to Hindi cinema at the national level. He received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction in 1975. Recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1987), Padmashri (1977), and Padmabhushan (2001), Hazarika was awarded with Dada Saheb Phalke Award (1992), India's highest award in cinema, by the Government of India and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (2008), the highest award of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's The National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama. He was posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award, in 2012. Hazarika also held the position of the Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi from December 1998 to December 2003.
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Gopal Prasad Sinha Gopal Prasad Sinha is an Indian neurologist, politician and a member of the Institutional Ethical Committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research. He was born and brought up in Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar and is an alumnus of Patna University. He unsuccessfully contested in 2014 Indian Parliament elections from the Patna Sahib constituency under the Janata Dal (United) candidacy, against the incumbent Member of Parliament, Shatrughan Sinha.
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Aparna Sen Aparna Sen (née Dasgupta) ("Ôporna Shen"; born 25 October 1945) is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and actress who is known for her work in Bengali cinema. A leading actress of the late 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, she has received eight BFJA Awards, five for best actress,two for best supporting actress and one for lifetime achievement She is the winner of three National Film Awards and nine international film festival awards for her direction in films. She was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, by the government of India in 1987.
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Sugata Bose Sugata Bose (born 7 September 1956) is an Indian historian and politician who has taught and worked in the United States since the mid-1980s. His fields of study are South Asian and Indian Ocean history. Bose taught at Tufts University until 2001, when he accepted the Gardiner Chair of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University. Bose is also the Director of the Netaji Research Bureau in Kolkata, India, a research center and archives devoted to the life and work of Bose's great uncle, the Indian nationalist, Subhas Chandra Bose. Bose is the author most recently of "His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire" (2011) and "A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire" (2006).
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Himani Bannerji Himani Bannerji (born 1942) is a Bengali–Canadian writer, sociologist, and philosopher from Kolkata, West Bengal, India. She teaches in the Department of Sociology, the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought, and the Graduate Programme in Women's Studies at York University, Canada. She is also known for her activist work and poetry. She received her B.A. and M.A. in English from Visva-Bharati University and Jadavpur University respectively, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.
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Sudhindranath Dutta Sudhindranath Dutta (Bengali: সুধীন্দ্রনাথ দত্ত ; 1901–1960) was a Bengali Indian post-modern poet, essayist, journalist and critic. Sudhindranath is one of the most notable poets after the Tagore-era in Bengali literature.
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Amanush Amanush (English: Inhuman) (Bengali: অমানুষ) is a 1975 Indian action drama film made in both Hindi and Bengali produced and directed by Shakti Samanta. The film stars Sharmila Tagore, Uttam Kumar, Utpal Dutt and Asit Sen. Both the versions were a hit.
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Parama (film) Parama (English title: The Ultimate Woman) is a 1984 award-winning Indian Bengali feature film directed by Aparna Sen.
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Mahanayika Mahanayika is a 2016 Indian Bengali drama film written and directed by Saikat Bhakat, and starring Rituparna Sengupta, Indraneil Sengupta, Soumitra Chatterjee, and Saheb Chatterjee.
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Mukul Gopal Mukherjee Mukul Gopal Mukherjee (1934–2004) was a Bengali Indian jurist, who served as the chief justice of the Rajasthan High Court.
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Chowringhee (film) Chowronghee (Bengali: চৌরঙ্গী ) is a 1968 Indian Bengali drama film by Pinaki Bhushan Mukherjee, starring Supriya Devi and Uttam Kumar. The film is based on the best-selling novel
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Chitra Sen Chitra Sen is a Bengali actress and dancer. She has worked mainly in theatres but she has also worked in films and televisions. She started her career under Jnyanesh Mukhopadhyay. She has also worked with Rabi Ghosh. In Swapnasandhani, she has worked under her son Kaushik Sen.
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Suman Mukhopadhyay Suman Mukhopadhyay (also Suman Mukherjee; (Bengali: সুমন মুখোপাধ্যায় ) is an Indian filmmaker and theatre director.
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Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury (Bengali: উপেন্দ্রকিশোর রায়চৌধুরী ), also known as Upendrokishore Ray (উপেন্দ্রকিশোর রায় ) (12 May 1863 – 20 December 1915) was a famous Bengali writer, painter, violin player and composer, technologist and entrepreneur.
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Sedin Dujone Sedin Dujone (Bengali: সেদিন দুজনে ) is a 2008 Bengali film Directed by debutant director Atanu Basu and released in 2008 featuring by Amitava Bhattacharya and Kasturi. The film is almost directly from Priyadarshan directed "Kyon Ki" released in 2005, which was not an original storyline either. It was a variation on the famous Suchitra Sen-film "Deep Jele Jai". This was later made into Hindi as "Khamoshi", produced by Hemant Kumar and starring Waheeda Rehman. But like most of his peers, Bose does not credit his source.
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Chaowa Pawa (1959 film) Chaowa Pawa (Bengali: চাওয়া পাওয়া , English:To Want And To Receive) is a 1959 Indian Bengali comedy drama film directed by Yatrik. The film is starring Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen.
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Diptendu Pramanick Diptendu Pramanick (July 1910 – Dec 1989) (Bengali: দীপ্তেন্দু প্রামাণিক ) was a Bengali film personality from Calcutta. He was the founder secretary of the "Eastern India Motion Pictures Association" in Calcutta, India - a fraternity of film personnel which is an interface between the entertainment industry of eastern India and the Government. During his multifarious career he came in contact with eminent personalities and saw the evolution of this organization from its initial days to being a regionwide entity.