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Soumendu Roy is a Actor, Director of Photography and Cinematography Indian born on 7 february 1933
Soumendu Roy (born 1933) is an Indian cinematographer most known for his work with noted director, Satyajit Ray films, starting with Teen Kanya (1961), when Subrata Mitra developed an eye-problem, though he has earlier shot Ray's documentary Rabindranath Tagore (1961) and has been an assistant to Subrata in post Pather Panchali films.
Devenu lui-même chef opérateur à l'occasion d'un film sorti en 1959, il retrouve Satyajit Ray sur un documentaire consacré à Rabindranath Tagore et pour le film à sketches Trois filles (avec Soumitra Chatterjee et Aparna Sen), tous deux sortis en 1961.
Jusqu'en 1993, il dirige les prises de vues d'une quarantaine de films indiens (y compris plusieurs documentaires), travaillant principalement avec Satyajit Ray. Parmi les dix-neuf autres films du tandem, mentionnons Le Lâche (1965, avec Soumitra Chatterjee), Tonnerres lointains (1973, avec Babita et Soumitra Chatterjee) et Les Joueurs d'échecs (1977, avec Sanjeev Kumar et Richard Attenborough). Leur ultime collaboration est pour La Maison et le Monde (1984, avec Soumitra Chatterjee et Victor Banerjee).
Au cours de sa carrière, Soumendu Roy gagne quatre National Film Awards de la meilleure photographie, entre autres pour Tonnerres lointains et Les Joueurs d'échecs pré-cités.
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Soumendu Roy
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D'abord premier ou deuxième assistant opérateur dans les années 1950, Soumendu Roy est notamment aux côtés du chef opérateur Subrata Mitra sur le tournage de La Complainte du sentier de Satyajit Ray (1955, avec Kanu Banerjee et Sharmila Tagore).Devenu lui-même chef opérateur à l'occasion d'un film sorti en 1959, il retrouve Satyajit Ray sur un documentaire consacré à Rabindranath Tagore et pour le film à sketches Trois filles (avec Soumitra Chatterjee et Aparna Sen), tous deux sortis en 1961.
Jusqu'en 1993, il dirige les prises de vues d'une quarantaine de films indiens (y compris plusieurs documentaires), travaillant principalement avec Satyajit Ray. Parmi les dix-neuf autres films du tandem, mentionnons Le Lâche (1965, avec Soumitra Chatterjee), Tonnerres lointains (1973, avec Babita et Soumitra Chatterjee) et Les Joueurs d'échecs (1977, avec Sanjeev Kumar et Richard Attenborough). Leur ultime collaboration est pour La Maison et le Monde (1984, avec Soumitra Chatterjee et Victor Banerjee).
Au cours de sa carrière, Soumendu Roy gagne quatre National Film Awards de la meilleure photographie, entre autres pour Tonnerres lointains et Les Joueurs d'échecs pré-cités.
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A Short Story (2015)
Directed by Kaushik Ganguly
Genres Drama
Actors Soumendu Roy
Rating76%
After a horrific accident while performing a stunt for the circus, trapeze artist Shibu finds himself restricted to his bed. In compensation, the manager agrees to pay only ₹ 15,000 to Shibu's family, which according to Shibu's juniors is a minuscule amount. They are angry but helpless as the only source of regular income for them is the circus. Sympathizing with the struggle of Shibu and his family, Khoka (Dulal Sarkar), Shibu's closest friend, decides to protest against the manager and hence leaves his job and take on total responsibility for Shibu's family. The family struggles with social apathy towards dwarves and poverty then takes a turn when Khoka realizes that he is in love with Shibu's daughter, Soma (Debalina Roy).
, 15h15Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Alexandre Sokourov, Norman Lloyd, Lars von Trier, Paul Schrader, Kyōko Kagawa, Haskell Wexler
Roles Self
Rating83%
L'histoire du cinéma international racontée à travers l'histoire de l'innovation cinématographique. Couvrant six continents et douze décennies, il montre comment les cinéastes sont influencés par les événements historiques de leur époque et par les autres cinéastes.
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Death of a Doctor (1990)
, 2h2Directed by Tapan Sinha
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Pankaj Kapur, Shabana Azmi, Irrfan Khan, Deepa Sahi, Vijayendra Ghatge, Anil Chatterjee
Roles Director of Photography
Rating82%
After years of painstaking research at the cost of his personal life, Dr. Dipankar Roy (Pankaj Kapoor) discovers a vaccine for leprosy. The news is flashed over television and overnight, an insignificant junior doctor receives international recognition. Professional jealousy and abuse of power threaten Dr. Roy, even as the Secretary of Health reprimands him for breaking the news to the press. He is asked to report to the Director of Health. Professional colleagues Dr. Arijit Sen and Dr. Ramananda invite him to a lecture but it is merely a pretence to humiliate him. Dr. Roy suffers a mild heart attack but he refuses to go to the hospital. His wife (Shabana Azmi) and a few others like Dr. Kundu (Anil Chatterjee) and Amulya (Irfan Khan) stand by Dr. Roy, but the harassment continues; a letter from a British foundation, John Anderson Foundation, is suppressed and Dr. Roy transferred to a remote village. The last straw is two American doctors receiving credit for discovering the same vaccine. Dr. Roy is shattered.However, at the end Dr. Roy gets an invitation from John Anderson Foundation inviting him to be a part of an eminent group of scientists working on other diseases . Dipankar Roy realizes that his research was fruitful. He also decides to accept the invitation as he just wants to work for the betterment of mankind.
The Home and the World (1985)
, 2h20Directed by Satyajit Ray
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Actors Victor Banerjee, Jennifer Kendal, Soumitra Chatterjee, Swatilekha Sengupta, Manoj Mitra
Roles Director of Photography
Rating74%
En 1905, la société indienne est en crise. Le gouverneur général des Indes, s'appuyant sur l'antagonisme entre Hindous et Musulmans, divise le Bengale en deux, afin de mieux pouvoir perturber l'économie locale et importer des produits anglais.
Debshishu (1985)
Genres Drama
Actors Smita Patil, Om Puri, Rohini Hattangadi, Om Shivpuri
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71%
, 1h51Actors Jaishankar, Poornima Bhagyaraj, Rajesh, N. Viswanathan, Raveendran (Ravindher)
Roles Director of Photography
Gautam, a photo journalist with revolutionary ideas, leaves his job as his editor fails to publish the true happenings of the society in their newspaper. One of Gautam's friends suggests him to organize an art exhibition to showcase his paintings. During the event, he happens to meet Arundhati, a Bharathanatyam dancer, who is keen to stage a classical ballet on Nandanar, a tenth century dalit saint. Gautam suggests Arundhati to present it in a folk-art form rather than a classical-art form like Bharathanatyam to which she agrees.
The Deliverance (1981)
, 45minutesDirected by Satyajit Ray
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Actors Om Puri, Smita Patil, Mohan Agashe, Gita Siddharth
Roles Director of Photography
Rating78%
The film is a vicious indictment of the Indian caste system; when a poor and out-caste, village shoemaker, Dukhi (Om Puri), goes to village Brahmin (Hindu priest) (Mohan Agashe) to get the date of his daughter's marriage fixed, the Brahmin in turn asks for labour without pay in exchange, the ensuing events however turn the table against the priest, who in the end has to fore-go all the lofty tradition, including that of untouchability, he held so dearly, all this life, in his life as village priest.
The Kingdom of Diamonds (1980)
, 1h58Directed by Satyajit Ray
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Superhero films, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Tapen Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Utpal Dutt, Soumitra Chatterjee, Santosh Dutta
Roles Director of Photography
Rating87%
The magically musical duo of Goopy Gyne and Bagha Byne make a comeback in this sequel, where they are invited to the court of the Hirak Raja (The Diamond King), for their musical skills. They are to perform at the kingdom's Jubilee Celebrations.
The Elephant God (1979)
, 1h52Directed by Satyajit Ray
Origin Inde
Genres Adventure, Crime
Actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Santosh Dutta, Utpal Dutt, Haradhan Bandopadhyay, Siddartha Chatterjee, Biplab Chatterjee
Roles Director of Photography
Rating78%
Feluda, his cousin Topshe and the thriller writer Jatayu visit Benaras during the pujas. There they meet a Bengali family. Upon hearing that Feluda is a private investigator, the Ghosal family head entrusts him with the task of finding out the thief of the attempted theft that took place in their house. Meanwhile, the arrival of a saint by the name of 'Machhli Baba' in Benaras quivers the excitement of the local people.
The Chess Players (1977)
, 2h9Directed by Satyajit Ray
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Jeu, Sports films, Films about chess
Actors Shabana Azmi, Farida Jalal, Richard Attenborough, Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjeev Kumar, Amjad Khan
Roles Director of Photography
Rating74%
The film shows in parallel the historical drama of the Indian kingdom Awadh (whose capital is Lucknow) and its Muslim Nawab Wajid Ali Shah who is overthrown by the British, alongside the story of two shatranj (chess) obsessed noblemen.
Bala (1976)
, 33minutesDirected by Satyajit Ray
Genres Documentary
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Satyajit Ray
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
The film begins with the introduction of Bharata Natyam since its inception. It also explains the various hand gestures, known as Mudra and Bala demonstrates one of them, "Mayura Mudra" ("Peacock Mudra"). Narrated by Satyajit Ray, the film describes Bala's lineage and her debut performance in 1925, at the age of seven, at Kancheepuram at the Kamakshi Amman Temple. A noted Sanskrit scholar and musicologist explains Bala's dancing style and an Indian dancer, Uday Shankar mentions about his association with Bala.
The Middleman (1976)
, 2h11Directed by Satyajit Ray
Genres Drama
Actors Deepankar De, Aparna Sen, Pradip Mukherjee, Utpal Dutt, Santosh Dutta, Rabi Ghosh
Roles Director of Photography
Rating83%
The film portrays the hopelessness of the middle-class, educated, urban youth in modern India.
The Golden Fortress (1974)
Directed by Satyajit Ray
Themes Children's films
Actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Santosh Dutta, Siddartha Chatterjee, Kushal Chakraborty, Haradhan Bandopadhyay
Roles Director of Photography
Rating82%
The film begins where Mukul Dhar (played by Kushal Chakraborty), a kid who is said to be able to remember events of his previous life, stays up late into the night and draws sketches about peacocks, forts and of battles that he claims to be the battles he had seen, and soon receives the media attention. This finally ended up his father narrating the following incidents to Prodosh Mitter, at his residence about where he met Dr. Hemanga Hajra (Sailen Mukherjee), a parapsychologist, in his book store who in turn enthusiastically offers for help believing it might also help him in his research. After listening to Mukul's descriptions of deserts and peacocks, Dr. Hajra guesses that the place he describes might be in the deserts of Rajasthan. Mukul also mentions that he lived in the Golden Fortress [Sonar Kella] and that their house had lots of gems. Dr. Hajra decides to take Mukul on a trip to Rajasthan hoping this may shed deeper light into such parapsychological phenomenon, as well as help cure the boy.
Distant Thunder (1973)
, 1h41Directed by Satyajit Ray
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Political films, Disaster films
Actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Babita, Bobita, Sandhya Roy
Roles Director of Photography
Rating78%
Le film se déroule durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, au Bengale, au début de la grande famine de 1943.
Company Limited (1971)
, 1h52Directed by Satyajit Ray
Genres Drama
Actors Barun Chanda, Sharmila Tagore, Haradhan Bandopadhyay, Deepankar De
Roles Director of Photography
Rating77%
Shyamal (Barun Chanda) is an ambitious sales manager in a British fan manufacturing firm in Calcutta, where he is expecting a promotion shortly. He is married to Dolan and lives in a company flat. He aspires to become the company director.