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Tapan Sinha is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Sound Indian born on 22 october 1924 at Kolkata (Inde)
Tapan Sinha (Bengali: তপন সিন্হা), (2 October 1924 – 15 January 2009) was one of the most prominent Indian directors of his time forming a legendary quartet with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen. He was primarily a Bengali filmmaker who worked both in Hindi cinema and Bengali cinema, directing films like Kabuliwala (1957), Louha-Kapat, Sagina Mahato (1970), Apon Jon (1968), Kshudhita Pashan and children's film Safed Haathi (1978) and Aaj Ka Robinhood. Sinha started his career in 1946, as a sound engineer with New Theatres film production house in Kolkata, then in 1950 left for England where he worked at Pinewood Studios for next two years, before returning home to start his six decade long career in Indian cinema, making films in Bengali, Hindi and Oriya languages, straddling genres from social realism, family drama, labour rights, to children's fantasy films. He was arguably the most uncompromising filmmaker outside the orbit of Parallel Cinema.
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Tapan Sinha
Nationality Inde
Birth 22 october 1924 at Kolkata (Inde)
Death 15 january 2009 (at 84 years) at Kolkata (Inde)
Awards Padma Shri, Dadasaheb Phalke Award
Birth 22 october 1924 at Kolkata (Inde)
Death 15 january 2009 (at 84 years) at Kolkata (Inde)
Awards Padma Shri, Dadasaheb Phalke Award
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Today's Robin Hood (1997)
, 1h51Directed by Tapan Sinha
Genres Comedy, Historical
Actors Anil Chatterjee, Utpal Dutt, Nana Patekar, Satish Shah
Rating67%
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
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 Law and a Lady (1982)
, 1h52Directed by Tapan Sinha
Actors Tanuja, Manoj Mitra
Rating72%
The film is framed as a courtroom trial, and the story is narrated through flashbacks. Urmila (Tanuja), a young schoolteacher, goes on a holiday to the sea resort of Gopalpur. Her vacation turns into a nightmare as she is gang-raped on the beach by four rich young men. This is only the beginning of her ordeal. The film shows the difficulties she faces in her quest for justice. Her friends and colleagues begin to avoid her. Her fiance can't handle the situation, and their engagement is broken off. Even her father, though supportive of her wish to bring the culprits to book, turns against her. One of the most striking scenes of the film is set in his office. Tired of answering solicitous, yet prurient, questions from his colleagues, he places on his desk a placard that reads "My raped daughter is well". The families of the culprits are rich and influential, and try their best to subvert the legal process. The police officer who investigated the case is placed under suspension. Urmila faces humiliating questions during the trial, as well as unwanted media attention, but eventually gets justice.
Sabuj Dwiper Raja (1979)
, 1h49Directed by Tapan Sinha
Genres Drama, Adventure, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Biplab Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Lily Chakravarty
Rating74%
A criminal gang is set to steal a secret source of energy that emanates from a meteorite that has landed on a remote island. They know that the local tribes have no idea of its value. A patriot, Mr. Talukdar, befriends the tribals. Thirteen-year-old Santu joins his uncle who is sent on behalf of the Intelligence to survey the island. The two leave Calcutta by ship for the Andaman Islands. Santu's sharp eye soon detects that the criminals are on board. Santu is instrumental in helping his uncle prevent the dastardly plot the criminals are about to carry out.
The White Elephant (1977)
Directed by Tapan Sinha
Themes Children's films
Actors Utpal Dutt, Shatrughan Sinha, Vijay Arora
Rating72%
Sibu lives with his uncle, aunt and sister Rani in a small village. While his uncle is indifferent to him, his aunt is very cruel. Mynah, a talking bird, is his best friend.
Sagina (1974)
Directed by Tapan Sinha
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu, Aparna Sen, Anil Chatterjee, Bhanu Bandyopadhyay, Kader Khan
Rating70%
Zindagi Zindagi (1972)
Directed by Tapan Sinha
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Waheeda Rehman, Ramesh Deo, Farida Jalal, Sunil Dutt, Ashok Kumar, Iftekhar
Rating61%
Sagina Mahato (1971)
, 2h28Directed by Tapan Sinha
Genres Drama
Themes Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu, Sumita Sanyal, Anil Chatterjee, Bhanu Bandyopadhyay
Rating76%
This is story of a tea estate labour leader in the north eastern region of India during the British Raj. Sagina Mahato fights for the rights of the labourers and has the courage to face the tyranny of the British bosses. He is helped by a young communist Amal who comes to the place to upraise the poor and downtrodden masses. Amal, an outsider, turned Sagina as a leader and thus alienated him from the mass by elaborating, appropriating, codifying, approximating his social hierarchy. The story by Gour Kishor Ghosh (first published in Desh25:12, 18 January 1958, reveals the problems of vulgar vanguardism from the Radical Humanist standpoint.
Apanjan (1968)
, 2h15Directed by Tapan Sinha
Genres Drama
Actors Chhaya Devi, Rabi Ghosh, Sumita Sanyal, Bhanu Bandyopadhyay, Chinmoy Roy
Rating80%
Anandamoyee (Chhaya Devi) is a childless widow in a Bengal village. One day a man turns up, claiming to be her nephew. He takes her to live with him and his family in Calcutta. In the city, she experiences something akin to culture shock, as she encounters children begging on the streets and day-to-day violence. She finds the idea of women working at office jobs very strange, and even wearing any kind of footwear is new for her. The couple with whom she lives want her to look after their child, which she does gladly since they are her "own people". However, eventually she realises that she is being exploited as an unpaid nanny. She moves out to a downbeat area of the city, to look after two street children. They are part of the 'family' of Robi (Swaroop Dutta), the leader of a gang of educated young men who are active participants in the street violence that engulfs the city. With these outsiders, Anandamoyee feels a sort of kinship, and even a sense of being in a family, which she never enjoyed with her actor husband. Robi's gang is always at daggers drawn with a rival gang led by Chheno (Samit Bhanja). The two gangs are enlisted by cynical politicians, to serve their own ends. The gang war continues, albeit with an ostensibly political colour, reaching a melodramatic climax, with a tragic resolution.
The Market Place (1967)
, 2h13Directed by Tapan Sinha
Genres Drama
Actors Ashok Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Bhanu Bandyopadhyay, Gita Dey, Chhaya Devi, Chinmoy Roy
Rating76%
Dr Anadi Mukherjee (Ashok Kumar) is the civil surgeon in a small market town in a tribal-dominated small town in Birbhum. He is a god-like figure, loved and respected by both the poor tribal folks of the area like the beautiful young widow Chhipli(Vyjayantimala), Jagadamba the vegetable seller and old women like Komlididi and Nani (Chhaya Devi) and the bigwigs of the area like the District Magistrate and Superintendent of Police Mr. Pandey. Dr Mukherjee is a workaholic and lives with his young wife Manu who has a chronic heart element. He comes into conflict with Lacchmanlal (Ajitesh Bannerjee), the son of the local feudal lord Chhabilal, a veritable rogue who lusts after Chhipli who is protected by the good doctor. After the death of his wife Manu, Dr Mukherjee leaves his official job and utilizes his savings to start a mobile dispensary for the poor. Lacchmanlal gets irritated by his actions and spreads canards about Dr Mukherjee’s relationship with Chhipli who had been appointed as trainee nurse in the medical team. On the night of a tribal festival, Lacchmanlal tricks Chhipli into a tryst and attempts to rape her. Dr Mukherjee gets the news and in a fight with Lacchmanlal strangles the villain to death while getting mortally injured. The next morning he dies, but the work of the clinic is carried on by Chhipli and others of the team under the guidance of a young doctor who had earlier been reprimanded by Dr Mukherjee.
Galpo Holeo Satti (1966)
Directed by Tapan Sinha
Genres Drama
Actors Bhanu Bandyopadhyay, Chhaya Devi, Rabi Ghosh, Chinmoy Roy
Rating85%
A new servant comes to a family which is suffering from internal tension. The new servant, whose identity is itself under suspicion, gradually becomes lovable to all of the family members including the old ailing family head. The story unravels how this new man in their life help each of the family-members find out new meaning to their individual lives as well as find out the happiness of a close-knit family.
The Prisoner of Jhind (1961)
Directed by Tapan Sinha
Genres Drama
Themes Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Uttam Kumar, Arundhati Devi, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy
Rating76%
A person comes to meet with Gauri Shankar Roy (Uttam Kumar) living in Kolkata. He introduces himself as a 'fauji Sardar' of Jhind, Jhind being a small kingdom in Madhya Pradesh. He says that the to-be king of Jhind, Shankar Singh, is found missing from the kingdom right before his coronation and this is apparently a conspiracy by his own brother Udit Singh, who wants the kingdom for himself. Earlier too there were two occasions when abhishek was arranged but both the times the king was found missing. Udit is a cruel hearted man, unfit to be a good king. Shankar Singh has his vices too but is a kind hearted person who would care for his citizens and is thus worthy to be the king. Now, coincidentally, Gauri has exactly the same appearance as Shankar Singh(also played by Uttam Kumar). This being the last hope, Sardar requests him to enact the role of the King for the abhishek until he finds the real king. Gauri agrees.The two set off for Jhind.
Kabuliwala (1957)
, 1h56Directed by Tapan Sinha
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Chhabi Biswas, Kali Banerjee
Rating78%
Rahmat (Chhabi Biswas), a middle-age fruit seller from Afghanistan, comes to Calcutta to hawk his merchandise. He befriends a small Bengali girl called Mini (Oindrila Tagore aka Tinku Tagore) who reminds him of his daughter back in Afghanistan. He stays at a boarding house with his countrymen.
Scriptwriter
Today's Robin Hood (1997)
, 1h51Directed by Tapan Sinha
Genres Comedy, Historical
Actors Anil Chatterjee, Utpal Dutt, Nana Patekar, Satish Shah
Roles Writer
Rating67%