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Kamal Bose

{{short description|Indian cinematographer}}

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| birth_place = Calcutta, British India

| death_date = 9 October 1995 (age 80)

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Kamal Bose (1915–1995) was an Indian cinematographer, who shot most of Bimal Roy classics, including Parineeta (1953), Do Bigha Zamin (1953), Bandini (1963), Devdas (1955) and Sujata (1960). He successful transitioned into the coloured film era, and shot Qurbani (1980), Janbaaz (1986) and Dayavan (1988).

During his career, he won the Filmfare Award for Best Cinematographer record five times, Bandini (B&W, 1964), Anokhi Raat (B&W, 1970), Khamoshi (B&W, 1971), Dastak (B&W, 1972), Dharmatma (1976).

Career

Bose was an important part of auteur Bimal Roy's team, starting with Anjangarh (1948), one of the last major films of the New Theatres in Kolkata, however Kolkata based film industry was now on the decline, thus Roy shifted base to Bombay (now Mumbai) along with his team, which included Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Nabendu Ghosh, Asit Sen, Bose and later Salil Chaudhury, and by 1952 he has restarted the second phase of his career with Maa (1952) for Bombay Talkies.{{cite news |title=Memories and melodies of a golden era |url=http://hindu.com/2001/04/13/stories/09130225.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029215922/http://hindu.com/2001/04/13/stories/09130225.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 October 2013 |date=13 April 2001 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=29 April 2013}} Thereafter Bose collaborated with Roy in all his subsequent films, Parineeta (1953, The Fiancee), adaptation of Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay novel by the same name, in same year came the neo-realism classic, Do Bigha Zamin (1953), which not only won the Filmfare Best Movie Award but also became the first Indian film to win the International Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3829/year/1954.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Do Bigha Zamin |access-date=2009-01-25 |work=festival-cannes.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204192851/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3829/year/1954.html |archive-date=2012-02-04 }} Their association continued with Naukri (1954), Baap Beti (1954), Devdas (1955), Amaanat (1955), Sujata (1960), Parakh (1960) and Bandini (1963), which won Bose his first Filmfare Award was especially noted for his masterly use of black and white, to bring "texture and form in simplicity mixed with richness", especially in the way he captured the starkness and gloom of the prison environment, while depicting women at work.{{cite book |title=100 Bollywood films|author=Rachel Dwyer|publisher=Lotus Collection, Roli Books |year=2005|isbn=8174364331 |page=41 }}{{cite news |title=Bandini (1963) |url=http://beta.thehindu.com/arts/movies/article27375.ece |newspaper=The Hindu |date=1 October 2009 |access-date=28 April 2013 }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Previously, his lighting in film, Devdas (1955) was also noted as it enhanced the emotional torment of the tight-lipped protagonist, played by Dilip Kumar.{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.co.in/entertai/2002/dec/09dinesh.htm|title=The perceptive camera of Bimal Roy|date=9 December 2002|publisher=rediff.com, Movies|author=Dinesh Raheja|access-date=28 April 2013|author-link=Dinesh Raheja|archive-date=25 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225122722/https://www.rediff.com/entertai/2002/dec/09dinesh.htm|url-status=dead}}

Meanwhile, he also shot, Musafir (1957, Traveller), directorial debut of Bimal Roy's editor and assistant Hrishikesh Mukherjee, the film is still remembered for its panoramic shots;{{cite news |title=BLAST FROM THE PAST: Musafir 1957 |url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2009/04/25/stories/2009042550871100.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204034030/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2009/04/25/stories/2009042550871100.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 February 2014 |date=25 April 2009 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=28 April 2013}} and Kabuliwala (1961) Hemen Gupta's adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore story, by the same name, starring Balraj Sahni, and produced by Bimal Roy.Gulzar, p. 252

Roy died in 1966, thereafter Bose started working with Asit Sen, and went on to receive critical acclaim for his B & W cinematography in Apradhi Kaun? (1957), his one-night tragedy, Anokhi Raat (1968, Strange Night) and the psychiatric ward tragedy, Khamoshi (1969, Silence), starring Rajesh Khanna and Waheeda Rehman, and Safar (1970, Journey) marked his transition in to colour films. The first two films, also won him his second and third Filmfare Awards. Though Bose continued to work with Sen for another decade, none of the films achieved the commercial success of those early films.{{cite news |title=Khamoshi 1969 |url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/08/16/stories/2008081653140600.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804050555/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/08/16/stories/2008081653140600.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 August 2009 |date=16 August 2008 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=28 April 2013}}

His next important collaboration was with actor-director Feroze Khan, which began with latter's debut the action-thriller Apradh (1972), thereafter he shot all of Khan's subsequent directorial ventures, including his next Dharmatma (1975). Shot in Afghanistan, the film was noted for its scenes featuring Buzkashi, a Central Asian sport on horses, including the aerial shots, which in turn won him another Filmfare award.{{cite news |title=Dharmatma (1975) |url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/dharmatma-1975/article4316386.ece |newspaper=The Hindu |date=17 January 2013 |access-date=28 April 2013}} In the 1980s, he shot, the highly glamorous, Qurbani (1980), Janbaaz (1986) and Dayavan (1988), his last film with Khan. In his late 70s, Bose did one more film Chauraha (1994).{{cite web |title=Kamal Bose|url=http://www.citwf.com/person455512.htm |publisher=Complete Index of World Film |access-date=28 April 2013}}

He died on 9 October 1995, at the age of 80.{{cite news |title=Manorama Yearbook, Volume 30 |publisher=Manorama Publishing House |year=1995 |quote= Deaths: October: Kamal Bose, 80, ace cinematographer, winner of a record five Filmfare awards. |page=94|title-link= Manorama Yearbook}} His son, Palash Bose is a commercial photographer based in Mumbai.{{cite web |title=Palash Bose |url=http://betterphotography.in/2011/08/04/palash-bose/ |date=4 August 2011 |publisher=Better Photography |access-date=28 April 2013}}

Filmography

Awards

  • Filmfare Award
  • Best Cinematographer{{cite web|title=Best Cinematographer Award (B&W), Colour|url=http://recipeguide.indiatimes.com/awards2001/ex_cinematographer.htm|publisher=Official Listing, Indiatimes|access-date=28 April 2013|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304235850/http://recipeguide.indiatimes.com/awards2001/ex_cinematographer.htm|url-status=dead}}
  • 1964: Bandini (B&W)
  • 1970: Anokhi Raat (B&W)
  • 1971: Khamoshi (B&W)
  • 1972: Dastak (B&W)
  • 1976: Dharmatma

References

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  • {{cite book |title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema |author=Gulzar |author-link=Gulzar|author2=Govind Nihalani |author3=Saibal Chatterjee |publisher=Popular Prakashan|year=2003|isbn=8179910660 |chapter=Major Cinematographers..|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&dq=kamal+bose+cinematographer&pg=PT276|ref= Gu}}

External links

  • {{IMDb name|0097878}}
  • [http://www.upperstall.com/people/kamal-bose Kamal Bose, Filmography] Upperstall

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Category:1915 births

Category:1995 deaths

Category:Hindi film cinematographers

Category:Filmfare Awards winners

Category:20th-century Indian photographers

Category:Artists from Kolkata

Category:Cinematographers from West Bengal

Category:Bengali Hindus