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Utpalendu Chakrabarty

Indian filmmaker (1948–2024)

Utpalendu Chakrabarty (1948 – 20 August 2024) was an Indian filmmaker based in Kolkata.

Life and career

Chakrabarty was born in Pabna District in 1948.[2] Utpalendu graduated from Scottish Church College, of the University of Calcutta.[3]

Chakrabarty was involved in left-wing politics in his student life and spent time in Purulia among the tribal.[4] Although he started out as a teacher, his passion was cinema. He made several documentaries and films. He was once married to Indrani Chakraborty and later divorced.[5] He remarried to director and activist Satarupa Sanyal but divorced in 2000. His daughters Chitrangada Satarupa and Ritabhari Chakraborty[6][7] revealed that they had no connection to Utpalendu, their biological father.[8][9]

Chakrabarty died in Kolkata on 20 August 2024, at the age of 76.[10]

Filmography

Director

Feature films

Television films

  • Dwibachan 1989
  • Sonar Chheye Dami 1989
  • Rang 1989
  • Bikalpa 1988
  • Aparichita 1986
  • Aparichita 2002
  • Kalo Patharer Itikatha (Balad of the black Stone)
  • Chua Chandan
  • May Day 2005

Documentaries

  • The Music of Satyajit Ray 1984
  • Debrata Biswas 1983
  • Mukti Chai 1977
  • Sunilo Sagore (On The Life of Sunil Gangopadhyay)

Writer

  • The Music of Satyajit Ray (Documentary) 1984
  • Chokh (Screenplay / Story) 1983

Composer

Music director

  • Chhaturtha Panipather Juddha 1995

Awards

References

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