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Tapan Kumar Bose

Tapan Kumar Bose

Tapan Kumar Bose

Tapan Kumar Bose is an independent filmmaker and a human rights activist. He started his career as a journalist. Later, he worked with S Sukhdev and learnt film-making from him. He has been making documentary films since 1971. He is known for his films on human rights and democratic rights issues.He contributes regularly to leading journals and news magazines in India, Nepal and Pakistan. His 1982 film, An Indian Story, on the blinding of under trial prisoners in Bhagalpur and the nexus between landlord, police and politicians ran into censorship trouble. Later it was cleared by the Bombay High Court. It was the Critic's ...

Deep Focus

    • An Indian Story
    The 62-minute-long, produced by actor Suhasini Mulay, was on the blinding of under trial prisoners by the police in Bhagalpur and the nexus between landlord, police and politicians. This 16 mm film was an ...

Filmography

    • An Indian Story (1982) 
    • Beyond Genocide: Bhopal Gas Tragedy (1986) 
    • Semurg (1978) 
    • Jadu Ki Kitab (1979) 
    • Scientific Attitude (1980) 
    • Behind the Barricades- Punjab (1993) 
    • Alternative Technology (1995) 
    • The Vulnerable Road User (1999) 
    • Jharkhand- the struggle of the Indian Indigenous People (2003) 
    • The Expendable People (2016)

Awards
    • An Indian Story won the Best Information Film of 1982 at the National Awards for being "an outstanding, investigative report into a subject of national concern and for its moving graphic and sensitive treatment of a controversial subject".
    • Beyond Genocide: Bhopal Gas Tragedy won the Best Non-Fiction Film at the 35th National Awards in 1987. The film was directed by him, Suhasini Mulay and Salim Shaikh. The golden lotus was awarded for "its sincere, conscientious study of a very important socio-technological issue of recent times, which explores its subject with a multi-faceted and humanistic approach".
Did You Know?

He joined forces with actress Suhasini Mulay and Salim Shaikh to form Cinemart Foundation. Documentaries were made under the aegis of this foundation. Four of these documentaries won National Awards (An Indian Story, Bhopal - Beyond Genocide on Bhopal gas tragedy, Chithi, Official Art Form).

Research by: Geety Sahgal

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