Bioscope – I

During my high school and college I was a huge movie buff and specially from Bollywood but later years I fell for English and the movies shown in the festival circuit. Slowly the craze died down yet often when some good one came along tried to make a little space to watch it. Top 5 Bengali movie I have seen

1.  Pather Panchali (1955)

Director:      Satyajit Ray

screenplay:  Satyajit Ray 

Writer:         Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay

Music:          Ravishankar

Cast :           Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Banerjee, Chunibala Devi

Awards:

India's 3rd National Film Awards	Won	Best Film
BAFTA Awards	Nominated	Best Film from any Source.
Bodil Awards	Won	Best Non-European Film
Cannes Film Festival	Won	Best Human Document
OCIC Award - Special Mention	Won	Satyajit Ray
Palme d'Or	Nominated	Satyajit Ray
Kinema Junpo Award	Won	Best Foreign Language Film
National Board of Review, USA	Won	Best Foreign Film India.
San Francisco International Film Festival	Won	Best Picture Satyajit Ray
Golden Gate Award		Best Director Satyajit Ray

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2.  Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960)

Director:            Ritwik Ghatak

Producer:          Chitrakalpa

Screenplay:       Ritwik Ghatak.

Writer:             Shaktipada Rajguru

Cast:                Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Niranjan Ray.

Ritik Ghatak never got the due and the same for this masterpiece but in 1999 he remembered in Pusan Film Festival and given him the following award.

Awards:

Pusan Film Festival

Won

Best Masterpiece Film

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3.  Apur Sansar (1959)

Producer:          Satyajit Ray Productions

Dirctor:             Satyajit Ray

Screenplay:       Satyajit Ray

Writer:              Bibhutibhushan Banerjee.

Cast :               Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore

Apur Sanasar was the final chapter of Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy,. In Apur Sansar Satyajit Roy introduce two new faces  Soumitra Chatterjee played Apu and Sharmila Tagore and rest was the history.

Awards:

National Film Awards	Won	Best Feature Film
British Film Institute Awards	Won	Best Original And Imaginative Film
14th Edinburgh International Film Festival	won	Diploma Of Merit
National Board of Review Awards (USA)	won	Best Foreign Film
British Academy Film Awards	Nominated	BAFTA Award for Best Film

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4.  Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne(1968)

Director:           Satyajit Ray

Screenplay :      Satyajit Ray

Writer:              Upendra Kishore Raychowdhuri

Music :              Satyajit Roy

Cast :                Tapen Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Santosh Dutta

Awards:

National Film Award	Won	Best Direction
National Film Award	Won	Best Feature Film
Adelaide Film Festival	Won	Silver Cross
Auckland International Film Festival	Won	Best Director
Tokyo Film Festival	Won	Merit Award
Melbourne International Film Festival	Won	Best Film
19th Berlin International Film Festival	Nominated	Golden Bear

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5.  Padma Nadir Majhi (1993)

Directed by       Goutom Ghosh

Produced by      West Bengal Film Development Corporation

Writer               Manik Bandopadhay

Sscreenplay:      Goutom Ghosh

Cast:                 Raisul Islam Asad, Champa, Utpal Dutt, Rupa Gangooly, Rabi Ghosh

Awards:

National Film Award	Won	Best Feature Film in Bengali
National Film Award	Won	Second Best Feature Film
National Film Award	Won	Best Director

The other which I would love to enlist are Charulata, Sonar Kella, Joy Baba Felunath, Chhadmabeshi, Harmonium are few which instantly come to my mind.

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