Prabhat Roy Explained

Prabhat Roy
Native Name:প্রভাত রায়
Native Name Lang:bn
Birth Place:Jamshedpore, British India (present-day Jharkhand, India)
Nationality:Indian
Occupation:Filmmaker[1]
Spouse:Jayashree Roy[2]

Prabhat Roy (Bengali: প্রভাত রায়; born 1946 in Jamshedpore) is a former Indian director who is known for his work in Bengali cinema.[3] [4] He received several awards including two National Awards and BFJA Awards.

He began his career as an assistant director in the early 1970s. He claimed to fame after his directorial venture Protidan (1983) starring Sharmila Tagore, Ranjit Mallick, Victor Banerjee and Naseeruddin Shah emerged to be a major box office success.[5] Other than feature films, he directed 16 telefilms and 3 TV series.

Awards

AwardYearCategoryFilmResult
National Award1993Best Feature Film on Family WelfareShwet Pathorer Thala[6]
1997Lathi[7]
BFJA Award1997Best Actor in a Leading RoleVictor Banerjee for Lathi
Best Art DirectionKartik Bose for Lathi[8]
Lux ETV Award2005Best FilmManik (2005 film)
Anandalok Award2006Best FilmShubhodrishti
7th Filmfare Awards Bangla2024Lifetime achievement Award

Filmography

As a director

YearTitleCastLanguage
Feature filmTV series
1983ProtidanSharmila Tagore, Ranjit Mullick, Victor Banerjee, Nasiruddin Shah, Lily Chakravarty, Anamika Saha
1985Bandhan AnjanaSharmila TagoreHindi[10]
1986ZindaganiMithun Chakraborty, Rati Agnihotri, RaakheeHindi[11]
1987PratikarChiranjeet Chakraborty, Shakuntala Barua, Victor Banerjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Satabdi Roy, Debashree Roy, Biplab Chatterjee
1988PratikChiranjeet Chakraborty, Soumitra Chatterjee, Raakhee, Tapas Paul, Roopa Ganguly, Papiya Adhikari
1989Aamar ShapathPrasenjit Chatterjee, Shatabdi Roy
1989AgnitrishnaChiranjeet Chakraborty, Ranjit Mallick, Madhabi Mukherjee, Roopa Ganguly, Satabdi Roy
1989Hum Intezaar KarengeMithun Chakraborty, Padmini KolhapureHindi
1989Pronomi TomayArjun Chakraborty, Reshma Singh, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Sumitra Mukherjee, Biplab Chatterjee
1990PapiChiranjeet Chakraborty, Debashree Roy, Abhishek Chatterjee, Pallavi Chatterjee. Dipankar Dey, Kaushik Banerjee, Indrani Dutta
1992AnutapRaj Babbar, Debashree Roy, Rabi Ghosh, Anup Kumar. Soumitra Bannerjee, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Nirmal Kumar
1992Shwet Paatharer ThalaAparna Sen, Dipankar Dey, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Indrani Haldar, Rituparna Sengupta, Dilip Roy, Haradhan Bandopadhyay, Meenakshi Goswami, Lily Chakravarty, Bhaskar Banerjee, Gopa Aich, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhya[12]
1993Duranta PremDeepak Sharma, Chandana Sen, Tapas Paul, Rachna Banerjee, Tota Roy Choudhury, Dolon Roy, Subhendu Chatterjee, Shakuntala Barua
1994SandhyataraSabyasachi Chakraborty, Debashree Roy, Manoj Mitra, Uttam Mohanty, Sumanta Mukherjee[13]
1995AndolanRituparna Sengupta
1996LathiVictor Banerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Abhishek Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Satabdi Roy, Rituparna Sengupta, Pallavi Chatterjee, Dulal Lahiri, Dipankar De, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Haradhan Banerjee, Manoj Mitra, Nirmal Kumar, Kaushik Banerjee, Bodhisattva majumdar, Debika Mitra, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Gita Dey, Tota Roy Choudhury, June Malia, Pushpita Mukherjee, Koushik Sen[14]
1997JoddhaChiranjeet, Debashree Roy, Tapas Paul, Abhishek Chatterjee, Priyanka Trivedi, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Lily Chakravarty
1997Sedin ChaitramasSanjib Das Gupta, Indrani Dutta, Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Dipankar De
1999KhelagharSupriya Devi, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Sreelekha Mitra, Abhishek Chatterjee, Pallavi Chatterjee
1999Shudhu Ekbar BoloProsenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Mouli Ganguly
1999Tumi Ele TaiVictor Banerjee, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Tapas Paul, Anuradha Roy, Santu Mukherjee, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Arpita Chatterjee
2000Shesh ThikanaSupriya Devi, Jaya Seal Ghosh, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Shakuntala Barua
2005Ek Mutho ChhabiRajatabha Dutta, Sreelekha Mitra, June Malia, Arunima Ghosh, Roopa Ganguly, Indrani Halder, Pallavi Chatterjee, Samata Das, Monami Ghosh, Biplab Chatterjee, Moumita Gupta, Bikram Ghosh, Kunal Mitra, Koushik Sen, Dilip Roy
2005ManikJeet, Koel Mallick, Ranjit Mallick, Debdoot Ghosh, Samata Das, Shyamal Dutta, Biplab Chatterjee, Rajesh Sharma, Monu Mukherjee
2005ShubhodrishtiJeet, Koel Mallick, Parambrata Chatterjee, Sanjib Dasgupta, Bharat Kaul, Laboni Sarkar, Biswajit Chakraborty, Dilip Ray
2006PriyotamaJeet, Swastika Mukherjee, Laboni Sarkar
2007PitribhumiJeet, Swastika Mukherjee.Lily Chakravarty, Shakuntala Barua
2010HangoverProsenjit Chatterjee, Subhra Kundu, Joy Kumar Mukherjee, Sayantika Banerjee, Subhashish Mukherjee, Biplab Chatterjee, Supriyo Dutta
2011Bhorer AloPriyanshu Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Rohit Roy, Anusmriti Sarkar
2015Birat 22[15]

Actor

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 'Cosmic Sex' was refused screening at Nandan for aesthetic reasons, says director Prabhat Roy. The Times of India. en. 7 March 2020.
  2. Web site: Here are a few of our favourite Rituparna Sengupta roles . 2023-05-04 . www.telegraphindia.com.
  3. Web site: Prabhat Roy movies, filmography, biography and songs - Cinestaan.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20190531084846/https://www.cinestaan.com/people/prabhat-roy-80775. live. 31 May 2019. Cinestaan. 2019-08-14.
  4. Web site: Prabhat Roy - Calcutta - Events - Society - Indiatimes Photogallery. indiatimes.com. 2008-11-14.
  5. Web site: Prabhat Roy . https://web.archive.org/web/20080307015847/http://www.seventymm.com/Actor/7916/Prabhat_roy . dead . 2008-03-07 . www.seventymm.com . 2008-11-14.
  6. Web site: 40th National Film Awards. International Film Festival of India. 14 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20160602174839/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm40thNFAAward.aspx. 2 June 2016. dead. dmy-all.
  7. Web site: 44th National Film Awards. International Film Festival of India. 14 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20140505172151/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm44thNFAAward.aspx. 5 May 2014. dead. dmy-all.
  8. Web site: 1997 award winners . bfjaaward.com . 2015-04-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062508/http://www.bfjaaward.com/award-winners.php?year=1997 . 4 March 2016 .
  9. Web site: List of Kalakar award winners. Kalakar awards. 2 October 2012.
  10. Web site: Bandhan Anjana. Bollywood Hungama. en. 12 March 2020.
  11. Web site: Zindagani. YouTube. 15 March 2020.
  12. Web site: Shwet Paathorer Thala. YouTube. 15 March 2020.
  13. Web site: Sandhyatara (1994). Cinestaan. https://web.archive.org/web/20180401214838/https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/sandhyatara-35720. live. 1 April 2018. 15 March 2020.
  14. Web site: Lathi. The Times of India. en. 14 March 2020.
  15. Web site: Zee Bangla Originals' thriller Birat 22 to air on November 8. The Times of India. en. 14 March 2020.