- Nabendu Ghosh
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Nabendu Ghosh was an acclaimed author in Bengali literature. He has written screenplays of various classic Bollywood movies. Amongst others, he is particularly known for his screenplays of Sujata, Bandini, Devdas, Majhli Didi, Abhimaan and Teesri Kasam. He has written stories for movies like Baap Beti, Shatranj, Raja Rani. He has also acted briefly in Do Bigha Zameen, Teesri Kasam and Prahaar. Later in his career, he directed four movies as well.
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Biography
Nabendu Ghosh was born in 1917 in Dhaka (presently in Bangladesh). At the age of 12 he became a popular actor on stage. As an acclaimed dancer in Uday Shankar style, he won several medals between 1939 and 1945. Ghosh lost a government job in 1944 for writing Dak Diye Jaai, set against the Quit India Movement launched by Indian National Congress. The novel catapulted him to fame and he moved to Calcutta in 1945. He soon ranked among the most progressive young writers in Bengali literature.
After partition, Urdu was declared the state language of East Pakistan; thereby banning all Bengali literature and films. It was this political division that prompted Nabendu Ghosh to join Bimal Roy in 1951, when he left to make films for Bombay Talkies. Others in the team included Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Asit Sen and Paul Mahendra.Nabendu Ghosh has written on all historical upheavals of 1940s - famine, riots, partition - as well as love. His oeuvre bears the distinct stamp of his outlook towards life. His literary efforts are 'pointing fingers.' There is a multi-coloured variety, a deep empathy for human emotions, mysterious layers of meaning, subtle symbolism, description of unbearable life. Love for humanity is also reflected in his writings. He has to his credit 26 novels and 14 collections of short story.
Awards
Literary awards
- Bankim Puraskar from the Bangla Academy, Govt. of West Bengal
- Haraprasad Ghosh Medal from Bangiya Sahitya Parishad
- Bibhuti Bhushan Sahitya Arghya
- Bimal Mitra Puraskar
- Amrita Puraskar
Film Awards
- 1997: Honoris Causa conferred by Film and Television Institute of India for his "Significant Contribution to Indian Cinema"
- 1989: Indira Gandhi Swarn Kamal ( National award) for Production and Direction - 'Trishagni'
- 1969: Filmfare Best Screenplay Award, Majhli Didi (1969) [1]
- BFJA Award for Best Screenplay: Majhli Didi (1969)
- BFJA Award for Best Screenplay: Teesri Kasam (1967)
- Film World Award for Best Screenplay (Do Anjaane)
References
External links
Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay 1969 – 1980 Nabendu Ghosh (1969) · Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1970) Vijay Anand (1971) · Basu Chatterjee (1972) · Arvind Mukherjee (1973) · Salim-Javed (1974) · Shama Zaidi & Kaifi Azmi (1975) · Salim-Javed (1976) · Basu Chatterjee (1977) · Lekh Tandon, Vrajendra Kaur & Madhusudan Kalekar (1978) · Kamleshwar (1979) · Girish Karnad & B.V. Karanth (1980)
1981 – 2000 Vijay Tendular (1981) · K. Balachander (1982) · Salim-Javed (1983) · Vijay Tendular (1984) · Mrinal Sen (1985) · Goutam Ghose & Partha Banerjee (1986) · no award (1987) · no award (1988) · Nasir Hussain (1989) · Shiv Kumar Subramaniam (1990) · Basu Chatterjee (1991) · Tapan Sinha (1992) · Aziz Mirza & Manoj Lalwani (1993) · Robin Bhatt, Javed Siddiqui & Akash Khurana (1994) · Sooraj R. Barjatya (1995) · Aditya Chopra (1996) · Rajkumar Santoshi (1997) · Subhash Ghai (1998) · Karan Johar (1999) · John Matthew Matthan (2000) ·
2001 – present Honey Irani & Ravi Kapoor (2001) · Farhan Akhtar (2002) · Mani Ratnam (2003) · Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra & Lajan Joseph (2004) · Mani Ratnam (2005) · Nina Arora & Manoj Tyagi (2006) · Jaideep Sahni (2007) · Anurag Basu (2008) · Yogendra Vinayak Joshi & Upendra Sidhaye (2009) · Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra & Abhijat Joshi (2010) · Anurag Kashyap & Vikramaditya Motwane (2011)
Categories:- 1917 births
- Bengali-language writers
- Bengali novelists
- Bengali writers
- Indian screenwriters
- Filmfare Awards winners
- Bengal Film Journalists' Association Award winners
- People from Dhaka
- Living people
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