Tapan Sinha

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Tapan Sinha

Biography

Tapan Sinha (2 October 1924 – 15 January 2009) was one of the most prominent Indian film directors of his time who made more than 40 feature films in Bengali, Hindi and Oriya in a career spanning nearly half a century. A contemporary of West Bengal's cinema icons - Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen - Sinha was an equally powerful storyteller who, like his favourite novelist, Charles Dickens, won a large and appreciative audience by dealing with the problems that confront ordinary people. Born in Kolkata, Sinha was the fifth child of Tridibesh and Pramila Sinha. He attended schools in Bhagalpur and Bankura. As a student at Patna U...

Acting

1994

Filmmaker for freedom

as Archival footage

Production

1965

Atithi

as Music

2000

The Magic Pearl

as Director

1967

1967

The Market Place

as Screenplay

1972

Bawarchi

as Writer

1974

Sagina

as Director

1974

Sagina

as Screenplay

1972

Zindagi Zindagi

as Director

1964

A Burnt House

as Screenplay

2009

Teen Murti

as Screenstory

2009

Teen Murti

as Screenplay

2009

Teen Murti

as Story

2009

Teen Murti

as Music

1986

Terror

as Dialogue

1986

Terror

as Music

1986

Terror

as Writer

1986

Terror

as Screenplay

1990

1957

Kabuliwala

as Director

1990

Death of a Doctor

as Screenplay

1963

1958

Iron Door

as Director

1960

1965

Atithi

as Director

1967

The Market Place

as Director

1973

1984

Man and Woman

as Director

1971

Sagina Mahato

as Director

1968

Apanjan

as Director

1961

1955

Upahar

as Director

1958

Kalamati

as Director

1988

1988

1962

Aamar Desh

as Director

1988

1988

1989

Didi

as Director

1954

Ankush

as Director

1977

1966

1964

A Burnt House

as Director

1994

Wheel Chair

as Director

1960

The Hungry Stones

as Screenplay

1966

1966

1966

1963

The Desolate Beach

as Screenplay

1963

The Desolate Beach

as Adaptation

1980

1985

Baidurya Rahasya

as Lyricist

1976

Harmonium

as Screenplay

1985

1976

Harmonium

as Lyricist

1985

Baidurya Rahasya

as Screenplay

1954

Ankush

as Screenplay

1956

Tonsil

as Screenplay

1964

Ascending

as Screenplay

1956

Tonsil

as Director

1951

Datta

as Sound Designer

1962

1971

Ekhonee

as Screenplay

1971

Ekhonee

as Music

1971

Ekhonee

as Lyricist

1977

1965

Atithi

as Screenplay

1968

Apanjan

as Music

1979

1979

1986

Terror

as Director

1985

Baidurya Rahasya

as Director

1991

Disappearance

as Director

1959

Khaniker Atithi

as Director

1971

Ekhonee

as Director

1976

Harmonium

as Director

1976

Harmonium

as Music

1964

Ascending

as Director

1977

1977

1977

Ek Je Chhilo Desh

as Screenplay

1982

1962

Aamar Desh

as Story

1951

Barjatri

as Sound

1979

Sabuj Dwiper Raja

as Screenplay

1949

Paribartan

as Sound

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