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Bijon bhattacharya is a Actor and Scriptwriter Indian born on 16 july 1917

Bijon bhattacharya

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Nationality Inde
Birth 16 july 1917
Death 19 january 1978 (at 60 years)

Bijon Bhattacharya (Bengali: বিজন ভট্টাচার্য) (17 July 1915 – 19 January 1978) was a prominent Indian theatre and film personality from Bengal.

Bhattacharya was born in 1915 at Faridpur (now in Bangladesh) in a Hindu, Bengali Brahmin family, and was early a witness to the destitution and penury of the peasantry of that land. He became a member of the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA), a left-leaning group of artists who aimed at reflect the suffering of the poor in their work, so as to make a social impact for the betterment of that section of society.

One of Bijon's most celebrated plays, Nabanna (Harvest), based on the Bengal famine of 1943, was an IPTA production, and an inspiration of the film Dharti Ke Lal, which he co-wrote with film's director Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, another IPTA member.

He died on 19 January 1978.

Biography

Bijon Bhattacharya married the Jnanpith award winning Bengali writer, Mahasweta Devi. Their only son Nabarun Bhattacharya, a Bengali writer, was born in 1948.

Usually with

Ritwik Ghatak
Ritwik Ghatak
(7 films)
Salil Chowdhury
Salil Chowdhury
(2 films)
Gita Dey
Gita Dey
(4 films)
Anil Chatterjee
Anil Chatterjee
(3 films)
Abhi Bhattacharya
Abhi Bhattacharya
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Bijon bhattacharya (13 films)

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Actor

Reason, Debate and a Story
Reason, Debate and a Story (1977)
, 2h
Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Genres Drama
Actors Tripti Mitra, Ritwik Ghatak, Bijon bhattacharya, Partha Pratim Chowdhury, Utpal Dutt
Roles Jagannath
Rating69% 3.4803953.4803953.4803953.4803953.480395
In this film Ghatak plays role of Nilkantha Bagchi, an alcoholic, disillusioned broken intellectual, in the character's own words "a humbug". His wife leaves him because of his insufferable alcoholism. After losing his wife and being forced from his home, he wanders through the countryside and meets unusual folks along the way. Nilkantha meets Bongobala, who was driven away from Bangladesh and does not have any shelter in Kolkata; he gives her shelter. He meets Jagannath Bhattacharjee, a village school teacher of Sanskrit. Jagannath's school was closed after political killings and he came to Kolkata in search of a job. Nilkantha meets Naxalites whom he describes as the "frame of Bengal", but misguided, successful and unsuccessful at the same time. The film, adventurous and revolutionary, is an exceptional mix of images that challenge the limits of narrative storytelling.
Subarnarekha
Subarnarekha (1965)
, 2h19
Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Actors Abhi Bhattacharya, Bijon bhattacharya, Madhabi Mukherjee, Ritwik Ghatak, Gita Dey, Jahar Ray
Roles Haraprasad
Rating73% 3.685223.685223.685223.685223.68522
The film tells the story of Ishwar Chakraborty (Abhi Bhattacharya), a Hindu refugee from East Pakistan after the 1947 partition of India. He goes to West Bengal with his little sister Sita (Indrani Chakrabarty) where he tries to start a new life. In a refugee camp, they see the abduction of a low-caste woman and Ishwar takes her little son Abhiram (Sriman Tarun) with him. He gets a job at a factory in the province, near the river Subarnarekha.
The Cloud-Capped Star
The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
, 2h6
Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Gita Ghatak, Bijon bhattacharya, Gita Dey, Abhi Bhattacharya
Roles Taran Master
Rating77% 3.892073.892073.892073.892073.89207
Après la Partition des Indes, une famille de réfugiés du Bengale survit misérablement à la périphérie de Calcutta. Le père, instituteur à l'origine, est paralysé par une fracture et ne peut plus travailler. La fille aînée, Nita, qui donne des cours particuliers et tente simultanément de continuer ses études, est la seule à ramener un peu d'argent à la famille. Alors que Sanat est amoureux d'elle, elle renonce à l'épouser pour continuer à assurer la subsistance de ses proches. C'est finalement sa sœur cadette qui s'unit à Sanat. Le fils cadet, ouvrier d'usine, est victime d'un terrible accident du travail. Nita se démène pour sauver son frère, qui sera heureusement guéri… mais elle ressent bientôt les symptômes d'une tuberculose avancée. Shankar, le frère aîné, devenu une vedette célèbre, lui assure un séjour en montagne, mais il est déjà trop tard.
Runaway
Runaway (1958)
, 2h4
Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Kali Banerjee, Jahar Ray, Bijon bhattacharya, Jayanta Chattopadhyay
Rating80% 4.002094.002094.002094.002094.00209
Kanchan, all of eight years old is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, till he reaches there. But the glimpses of reality are harsher and the victims he meets give him a different view of the city. He himself has to struggle for survival and experiences life as it is, only to go back to his village home. This time as a mature person and with the realization that his father is no demon after all, but yet another victim struggling with poverty and still a loving father.
The Uprooted
The Uprooted (1950)
, 1h57
Directed by Nemai Ghosh
Genres Drama
Actors Ritwik Ghatak, Bijon bhattacharya, Shobha Sen
Rating76% 3.844033.844033.844033.844033.84403
The film is based on a story of Swarnakamal Bhattacharya. Depicting the physical pain and crisis, the film is about the partition of Bengal and the flow of refugees from East Pakistan (present Bangladesh) into India. The story of the film begins in a village of East Bengal where people (Hindus and Muslims) leave peacefully. Govinda and Sumati are husband wife and they are about to have a child. But, the partition forces Hindu people to leave their ancestral village. So, they become refugee. They don't find any location or shelter in Calcutta and eke out their daily lives in temporary shelters in and around Sealdah railway station. Along with millions of refugees the family has to face untold misery in big city.

Scriptwriter

Nagin
Nagin (1954)
, 2h19
Actors Vyjayanthimala, Pradeep Kumar, Jeevan, Sulochana, I. S. Johar, Krishna Kumari
Rating67% 3.3582953.3582953.3582953.3582953.358295
Two Adivasi tribes are in conflict for the local economic rights. The daughter of the Nagi tribe's chief, Mala (Vyjayanthimala) vows to kill the son of the Ragi tribe's chief, Sanatan (Pradeep Kumar) as revenge. Trespassing the enemy territory, she is mesmerized by music of a flute (played by the musician Kalyanji Virji Shah). Coming closer, she finds out that the singer is Sanatan. They fall in love, but find it difficult to appease the enmity between the two tribes and to resist the attempts of the villain Prabir (Jeevan) to marry Mala.