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Abhijit Dasgupta (1946-present)

Abhijit Dasgupta
(1946-present)

Abhijit Dasgupta

Since his childhood, Abhijit Dasgupta was closely associated with Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen. He had family ties with SD Burman and RD Burman. His first film was on a bench in the Rabindra Sarovar Lakes. That won the Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai award which was given in Japan for the Best Amateur Film in the 60s. A student of South Point and Andrews School, he joined the City College (evening). During the mornings, he worked at The Statesman in the 1960s for a stipend of Rs 100 per month. Subsequently, he joined the All India Radio Television. On April 1, 1976, All India Radio Television was ...

Deep Focus

    • Kolkata
    This was his first documentary and was telecast on August 9, 1975. That was the first day of AIR-TV's Calcutta telecast.

    • Radhakanta Library - The Lost Athenaeum
Filmography
    • Kolkata (1975) 
    • Sagar - Where Souls Meet (1978)
    • And in Joy Flows (1979) 
    • Radhakanta Library - The Lost Athenaeum 
    • Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky 
    • Ocean to Sky (1979)
    • Khairi (1979) 
    • The Unfinished Story (1983)
    • The Sitar (1984)
    • History of Bengali Cinema
    • Vana Bani
    • High Impressions - Sky impressions
    • When Solitude Does Write
    • Something Old Something New
    • Chau at the Crossroads 
    • Blood - Rhymes of Life
    • Robi Babur Gaan 
    • To Make The Grass Greener
    • Challenging Heights
    • Sagarmatha
    • Mission of Love
    • Jele Parar Song
    • Nicobar and Beyond
    • Century of Sound
    • From Marshland to Modern Town
    • 200 years of Fort William
    • Mrinal Sen
    • Bauls: The Roving Minstrels of Bengal
    • Cavalry Forward 
    • Ananda
    • Madhubani - A Timeless Motif
    • Safari
    • Thrills on Wheels
    • Cradle of Love
    • Searching for the Religion of Man
    • The Great Swan
    • A Gift Unopened
    • All for God's Love
    • E Gari Cholchey Aajob Koley
    • Hush - If They Hear
    • Kolkata Protests
    • Swamiji
    • The Jail
    • The Pen and The Brush
    • Where is Uma 
    • Asean (2004)
    • Metamorphosis
    • Birangana Kahini
    • Selim Munshi
    • Natak Itihas Darpan
    • Durga Puja Down the Ages
    • Bangla Theatre - The Jatras
    • Bangla Theatre - The Experimental Groups
    • Bangla Theatre - a Brief History I & II
    • Bangla Theater - The Mainstream groups
    • Bangla Theatre - Post-independence
    • Malaise of Mankind
    • The Intuitive Scientist
    • The Poet and The Patriot
    • Health Care? Who Cares?
    • Rani Bahini
    • Beyond Belief I - VIII
Awards
    • The Sitar won 1984's Best documentary for National Television Awards. The Unfinished Story won the the DD J N Gaur Memorial National Award for Best Documentary.
    • High Impressions- Sky Impressions won the Eurovision Award.
    • Bauls: The Roving Minstrels of Bengal won the Raduga Award for Best Documentary in USSR. 
    • The Jail won the Best Documentary at the Golden Gate SF in 2009, Best Script Strasbourgh International in 2009, Best Script and Best Documentary at the International Documentary festival Chennai, Best Screenplay at Punta Del Este International festival, Best Integral Realization at Punta Del Este. 
    • Madhubani - A Timeless Motif won the Best Documentary in 1981 from Bengal Film Journalists' Association (BFJA). 
    • Something Old Something New won the Prix Jeunesse award in Germany. 
    • Beyond Belief I - VIII was the Best Documentary at the Festival De Cinema de Paris and Festival Du Cinema Du Bruxelles. It won the award for Best Integral Realization (Chicago) and Best Direction Festival De Cinema De Granada and Best Photography (New York).
Did You Know?

His Malaise of Mankind has some chilling accounts of survivors of trafficking. A lady who became a slave for three years before being rescued spoke about how she was asked to bathe in turmeric water if her body ached due to incessant sexual and physical abuse. Another spoke about the ordeal at a police station. "I was told that it was I who had seduced the boy. Even the chair where I was sitting was snatched away. They said: 'She will dirty the chair too! Move away. Sit outside'," she said in this hard-hitting documentary.