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Nabyendu Chattopadhyay

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Directed movies: 8Directed series: 0All crew credits: 8

TMDB ID: 1624922

IMDb ID: nm0154140

Known for: Directing

Born: November 21, 1937

Died: January 14, 2009

Age: 71

Place of birth: Kolkata, India

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1958 - 2011

Years active: 54

Wikidata: Q57584636

Also known as

Nabyendu Chatterjee • নাব্যেন্দু চট্টোপাধ্যায় • নাব্যেন্দু চ্যাটার্জী

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Biography

Nabyendu Chatterjee (1937 – 14 January 2009) was an Indian Bengali and Hindi film director and producer. In 1991 he received the 38th National Award for the Best Feature Film in Bengali. Chatterjee started his career as an actor in 1962 but soon turned into direction. He worked with Bengali director Aravind Mukherjee as an assistant. He made his directorial debut with an experimental Hindi film Naya Rasta in 1967. In his career, he was known as an independent, offbeat filmmaker with unparalleled art films. His choice of literary stories to be translated into film scripts by himself. In 1981 Chatterjee made Sarisreep - The Reptile based on Manik Bandopadhyay's story. His last finished work Mansur Miyar Ghora attracted positive criticism soon after release. Chatterjee could not complete his last film, Sanskar, a project he pursued for years. He died at the age of 71 after a massive heart attack in his North Kolkata residence in 2009.

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