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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 University, Bihar, Sinha responded sympathetically to Mahatma Gandhi's Quit Indiamovement, launched against the British in 1942. However, when he moved to Kolkata University, where he was studying for an MSc in physics, he fell under the spell of British and American film-makers, particularly John Ford, Billy Wilder, Frank Capra and Carol Reed. He later claimed that it was Jack Conway's 1935 version of Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities that motivated him to become a film-maker. After gaining his master's in 1946, Sinha joined the New Theatres studios, Kolkata, as a trainee sound engineer. Two years later, he moved to the Kolkata Movietone studio and, in 1950, he received an invitation to the London film festival and an opportunity to work at Pinewood studios, near London, where he took a job in the director Charles Crichton's unit as a sound engineer. While in London, he was exposed to the works of Italian directors Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini. On returning to India, Sinha made his first film, Ankush (The Goad, 1954), which featured an elephant belonging to a zamindar (tax collector) as the central character. His final film was released in 2001. Sinha, whom many critics regarded as India's David Lean, was honoured at international festivals in Berlin, Venice, London, Moscow and San Francisco and had received the Dadasaheb Phalke award, the highest cinema honour from the Indian government in 2008.
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Daughters of This Century
2001-03-14
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Atithi
1965-06-04
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Daughters of This Century
2001-03-14
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The Magic Pearl
2000-02-09
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The Market Place
1967-04-01
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The Market Place
1967-04-01
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Bawarchi
1972-04-07
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Sagina
1974-07-15
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Sagina
1974-07-15
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Zindagi Zindagi
1972-01-01
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A Burnt House
1964-03-20
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Teen Murti
2009-12-10
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Teen Murti
2009-12-10
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Teen Murti
2009-12-10
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Teen Murti
2009-12-10
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Terror
1986-10-03
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Terror
1986-10-03
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Terror
1986-10-03
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Terror
1986-10-03
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Death of a Doctor
1990-01-01
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Kabuliwala
1957-04-01
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Death of a Doctor
1990-01-01
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Atithi
1965-06-04
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Iron Door
1958-04-01
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Man and Woman
1984-04-01
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The Hungry Stones
1960-08-02
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The Desolate Beach
1963-05-17
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The Market Place
1967-04-01
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Apanjan
1968-12-06
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Sagina Mahato
1971-07-01
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Crossing the Darkness
1973-04-01
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The Prisoner of Jhind
1961-03-01
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Upahar
1955-12-30
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Kalamati
1958-06-06
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Today's Robin Hood
1988-02-19
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Today's Robin Hood
1988-02-19
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Ankush
1954-03-19
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Hansuli Banker Upakatha
1962-04-14
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Today's Robin Hood
1988-02-19
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The White Elephant
1977-01-14
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Today's Robin Hood
1988-02-19
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Didi
1989-10-06
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Aamar Desh
1962-12-07
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Galpo Holeo Satti
1966-10-13
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A Burnt House
1964-03-20
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Strange Tale of a Strange Village
1998-08-27
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Wheel Chair
1994-07-14
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The Hungry Stones
1960-08-02
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Galpo Holeo Satti
1966-10-13
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Galpo Holeo Satti
1966-10-13
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Galpo Holeo Satti
1966-10-13
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The Desolate Beach
1963-05-17
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The Desolate Beach
1963-05-17
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The Garden of Bancharam
1980-01-29
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The Garden of Bancharam
1980-01-29
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The Garden of Bancharam
1980-01-29
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Harmonium
1976-06-04
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Baidurya Rahasya
1985-06-14
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Baidurya Rahasya
1985-06-14
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Harmonium
1976-06-04
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Baidurya Rahasya
1985-06-14
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Ankush
1954-03-19
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Arohi
1964-09-04
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Tonsil
1956-03-09
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Tonsil
1956-03-09
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Datta
1951-10-05
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Hansuli Banker Upakatha
1962-04-14
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Ekhonee
1971-04-30
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Ekhonee
1971-04-30
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Ekhonee
1971-04-30
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Ek Je Chhilo Desh
1977-07-29
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Atithi
1965-06-04
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Apanjan
1968-12-06
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Sabuj Dwiper Raja
1979-08-17
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Sabuj Dwiper Raja
1979-08-17
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Terror
1986-10-03
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Baidurya Rahasya
1985-06-14
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Disappearance
1991-02-07
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Khaniker Atithi
1959-04-01
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Ekhonee
1971-04-30
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Harmonium
1976-06-04
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Harmonium
1976-06-04
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Arohi
1964-09-04
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Ek Je Chhilo Desh
1977-07-29
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Ek Je Chhilo Desh
1977-07-29
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Ek Je Chhilo Desh
1977-07-29
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The Law and a Lady
1982-07-15
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Aamar Desh
1962-12-07
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Barjatri
1951-02-16
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Sabuj Dwiper Raja
1979-08-17
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Paribartan
1949-10-25