Prabhat Roy

{{Infobox person

| name = Prabhat Roy

| native_name = প্রভাত রায়

| native_name_lang = bn

| birth_place = Jamshedpore, British India (present-day Jharkhand, India)

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1946}}

| nationality = Indian

| occupation = Filmmaker{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/cosmic-sex-was-refused-screening-at-nandan-for-aesthetic-reasons-says-director-prabhat-roy/articleshow/52894788.cms|title='Cosmic Sex' was refused screening at Nandan for aesthetic reasons, says director Prabhat Roy|website=The Times of India|language=en|access-date=7 March 2020}}

| notable_works = {{ubl|Shwet Paatharer Thala|Sandhyatara|Lathi}}

| spouse = Jayashree Roy{{Cite web |title=Here are a few of our favourite Rituparna Sengupta roles |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/rituparna-senguptas-most-challenging-roles-and-how-she-aced-them-with-elan/cid/1896716 |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=www.telegraphindia.com}}

| awards = {{ubl|National Award|BFJA Award}}

}}

Prabhat Roy ({{langx|bn|প্রভাত রায়}}; born 1946 in Jamshedpore) is a former Indian director who is known for his work in Bengali cinema.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinestaan.com/people/prabhat-roy-80775|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531084846/https://www.cinestaan.com/people/prabhat-roy-80775|url-status=live|archive-date=31 May 2019|title=Prabhat Roy movies, filmography, biography and songs - Cinestaan.com|website=Cinestaan|access-date=2019-08-14}}

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He received several awards including two National Awards and BFJA Awards.

He began his career as an assistant director in the early 1970s. He claimed to fame after his directorial venture Protidan (1983) starring Sharmila Tagore, Ranjit Mallick, Victor Banerjee and Naseeruddin Shah emerged to be a major box office success.

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Other than feature films, he directed 16 telefilms and 3 TV series.

Awards

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!Year

!Category

!Film

!Result

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rowspan="2"|National Award

|1993

|rowspan="2"|Best Feature Film on Family Welfare

|Shwet Pathorer Thala

|{{won}}

|{{cite web|url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm40thNFAAward.aspx|title=40th National Film Awards|publisher=International Film Festival of India|access-date=14 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602174839/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm40thNFAAward.aspx|archive-date=2 June 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}

1997

|Lathi

|{{won}}

|{{cite web|url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm44thNFAAward.aspx|title=44th National Film Awards|publisher=International Film Festival of India|access-date=14 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140505172151/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm44thNFAAward.aspx|archive-date=5 May 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}

rowspan="2" |BFJA Award

|rowspan="2" |1997

|Best Actor in a Leading Role

|Victor Banerjee for Lathi

|{{won}}

Best Art Direction

|Kartik Bose for Lathi

|{{won}}

|{{cite web|url=http://www.bfjaaward.com/award-winners.php?year=1997 |title=1997 award winners |work=bfjaaward.com |accessdate=2015-04-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062508/http://www.bfjaaward.com/award-winners.php?year=1997 |archivedate= 4 March 2016 }}

Lux ETV Award

|2005

|Best Film

|Manik (2005 film)

|{{Won}}

Anandalok Award

|2006

|Best Film

|Shubhodrishti

|{{Won}}

7th Filmfare Awards Bangla

|2024

|Lifetime achievement Award

|{{Won}}

Kalakar Award

|{{Won}}

|{{cite web|title=List of Kalakar award winners|url=http://kalakarawards.co/images/pastawardeeslist.pdf|publisher=Kalakar awards|accessdate=2 October 2012}}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Filmography

= As a director =

class="wikitable" !rowspan="2"\|Year !colspan="2"\|Title !rowspan="2"\|Cast !rowspan="2"\|Language !rowspan="2"\|{{Tooltip\|Ref.\|Reference}}
Feature film !TV series
1983 \|Protidan \| \|Sharmila Tagore, Ranjit Mullick, Victor Banerjee, Nasiruddin Shah, Lily Chakravarty, Anamika Saha \| \|
1985 \|Bandhan Anjana \| \|Sharmila Tagore \| Hindi \|{{Cite web\|url=https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/bandhan-anjana/\|title=Bandhan Anjana\|last=\|first=\|date=\|website=Bollywood Hungama\|language=en\|access-date=12 March 2020}}
1986 \|Zindagani \| \|Mithun Chakraborty, Rati Agnihotri, Raakhee \|Hindi \|{{Cite web\|title=Zindagani\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-MG6h0NQjE\|website=YouTube\|access-date=15 March 2020}}
1987 \|Pratikar \| \|Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Shakuntala Barua, Victor Banerjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Satabdi Roy, Debashree Roy, Biplab Chatterjee \| \|
1988 \|Pratik \| \|Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Soumitra Chatterjee, Raakhee, Tapas Paul, Roopa Ganguly, Papiya Adhikari \| \|
1989 \|Aamar Shapath \| \|Prasenjit Chatterjee, Shatabdi Roy \| \|
1989 \|Agnitrishna \| \|Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Ranjit Mallick, Madhabi Mukherjee, Roopa Ganguly, Satabdi Roy \| \|
1989 \|Hum Intezaar Karenge \| \|Mithun Chakraborty, Padmini Kolhapure \|Hindi \|
1989 \|Pronomi Tomay \| \|Arjun Chakraborty, Reshma Singh, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Sumitra Mukherjee, Biplab Chatterjee \| \|
1990 \|Papi \| \|Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Debashree Roy, Abhishek Chatterjee, Pallavi Chatterjee. Dipankar Dey, Kaushik Banerjee, Indrani Dutta \| \|
1992 \|Anutap \| \|Raj Babbar, Debashree Roy, Rabi Ghosh, Anup Kumar. Soumitra Bannerjee, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Nirmal Kumar \| \|
1992 \|Shwet Paatharer Thala \| \|Aparna Sen, Dipankar Dey, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Indrani Haldar, Rituparna Sengupta, Dilip Roy, Haradhan Bandopadhyay, Meenakshi Goswami, Lily Chakravarty, Bhaskar Banerjee, Gopa Aich, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhya \| \|{{Cite web\|title=Shwet Paathorer Thala\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN6dN_iYDKQ\|website=YouTube\|access-date=15 March 2020}}
1993 \|Duranta Prem \| \|Deepak Sharma, Chandana Sen, Tapas Paul, Rachna Banerjee, Tota Roy Choudhury, Dolon Roy, Subhendu Chatterjee, Shakuntala Barua \| \|
1994 \|Sandhyatara \| \|Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Debashree Roy, Manoj Mitra, Uttam Mohanty, Sumanta Mukherjee \| \|{{Cite web\|url=https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/sandhyatara-35720\|title=Sandhyatara (1994)\|last=\|first=\|date=\|website=Cinestaan\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401214838/https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/sandhyatara-35720\|url-status=live\|archive-date=1 April 2018\|access-date=15 March 2020}}
1995 \| \|Andolan \|Rituparna Sengupta \| \|
1996 \|Lathi \| \|Victor Banerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Abhishek Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Satabdi Roy, Rituparna Sengupta, Pallavi Chatterjee, Dulal Lahiri, Dipankar De, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Haradhan Banerjee, Manoj Mitra, Nirmal Kumar, Kaushik Banerjee, Bodhisattva majumdar, Debika Mitra, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Gita Dey, Tota Roy Choudhury, June Malia, Pushpita Mukherjee, Koushik Sen \| \|{{Cite web\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movie-details/lathi/movieshow/66376447.cms\|title=Lathi\|last=\|first=\|date=\|website=The Times of India\|language=en\|access-date=14 March 2020}}
1997 \|Joddha \| \|Chiranjeet, Debashree Roy, Tapas Paul, Abhishek Chatterjee, Priyanka Trivedi, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Lily Chakravarty \| \|
1997 \|Sedin Chaitramas \| \|Sanjib Das Gupta, Indrani Dutta, Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Dipankar De \| \|
1999 \|Khelaghar \| \|Supriya Devi, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Sreelekha Mitra, Abhishek Chatterjee, Pallavi Chatterjee \| \|
1999 \|Shudhu Ekbar Bolo \| \|Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Mouli Ganguly \| \|
1999 \|Tumi Ele Tai \| \| Victor Banerjee, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Tapas Paul, Anuradha Roy, Santu Mukherjee, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Arpita Chatterjee \|
2000 \|Shesh Thikana \| \|Supriya Devi, Jaya Seal Ghosh, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Shakuntala Barua \| \|
2005 \|Ek Mutho Chhabi \| \|Rajatabha Dutta, Sreelekha Mitra, June Malia, Arunima Ghosh, Roopa Ganguly, Indrani Halder, Pallavi Chatterjee, Samata Das, Monami Ghosh, Biplab Chatterjee, Moumita Gupta, Bikram Ghosh, Kunal Mitra, Koushik Sen, Dilip Roy \| \|
2005 \|Manik \| \| Jeet, Koel Mallick, Ranjit Mallick, Debdoot Ghosh, Samata Das, Shyamal Dutta, Biplab Chatterjee, Rajesh Sharma, Monu Mukherjee \| \|
2005 \|Shubhodrishti \| \| Jeet, Koel Mallick, Parambrata Chatterjee, Sanjib Dasgupta, Bharat Kaul, Laboni Sarkar, Biswajit Chakraborty, Dilip Ray \| \|
2006 \|Priyotama \| \|Jeet, Swastika Mukherjee, Laboni Sarkar \| \|
2007 \|Pitribhumi \| \|Jeet, Swastika Mukherjee.Lily Chakravarty, Shakuntala Barua \| \|
2010 \|Hangover \| \| Prosenjit Chatterjee, Subhra Kundu, Joy Kumar Mukherjee, Sayantika Banerjee, Subhashish Mukherjee, Biplab Chatterjee, Supriyo Dutta \| \|
2011 \|Bhorer Alo \| \|Priyanshu Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Rohit Roy, Anusmriti Sarkar \| \|
2015 \|Birat 22 \| \| \| \|{{Cite web\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/Zee-Bangla-Originials-thriller-Birat-22-to-air-on-November-8/articleshow/49688341.cms\|title=Zee Bangla Originals' thriller Birat 22 to air on November 8\|last=\|first=\|date=\|website=The Times of India\|language=en\|access-date=14 March 2020}}

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!rowspan="2"|Year

!colspan="2"|Title

!rowspan="2"|Cast

!rowspan="2"|Language

!rowspan="2"|{{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}}

Feature film

!TV series

1983

|Protidan

|Sharmila Tagore, Ranjit Mullick, Victor Banerjee, Nasiruddin Shah, Lily Chakravarty, Anamika Saha

1985

|Bandhan Anjana

|Sharmila Tagore

| Hindi

|{{Cite web|url=https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/bandhan-anjana/|title=Bandhan Anjana|last=|first=|date=|website=Bollywood Hungama|language=en|access-date=12 March 2020}}

1986

|Zindagani

|Mithun Chakraborty, Rati Agnihotri, Raakhee

|Hindi

|{{Cite web|title=Zindagani|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-MG6h0NQjE|website=YouTube|access-date=15 March 2020}}

1987

|Pratikar

|Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Shakuntala Barua, Victor Banerjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Satabdi Roy, Debashree Roy, Biplab Chatterjee

1988

|Pratik

|Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Soumitra Chatterjee, Raakhee, Tapas Paul, Roopa Ganguly, Papiya Adhikari

1989

|Aamar Shapath

|Prasenjit Chatterjee, Shatabdi Roy

1989

|Agnitrishna

|Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Ranjit Mallick, Madhabi Mukherjee, Roopa Ganguly, Satabdi Roy

1989

|Hum Intezaar Karenge

|Mithun Chakraborty, Padmini Kolhapure

|Hindi

1989

|Pronomi Tomay

|Arjun Chakraborty, Reshma Singh, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Sumitra Mukherjee, Biplab Chatterjee

1990

|Papi

|Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Debashree Roy, Abhishek Chatterjee, Pallavi Chatterjee. Dipankar Dey, Kaushik Banerjee, Indrani Dutta

1992

|Anutap

|Raj Babbar, Debashree Roy, Rabi Ghosh, Anup Kumar. Soumitra Bannerjee, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Nirmal Kumar

1992

|Shwet Paatharer Thala

|Aparna Sen, Dipankar Dey, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Indrani Haldar, Rituparna Sengupta, Dilip Roy, Haradhan Bandopadhyay, Meenakshi Goswami, Lily Chakravarty, Bhaskar Banerjee, Gopa Aich, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhya

|{{Cite web|title=Shwet Paathorer Thala|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN6dN_iYDKQ|website=YouTube|access-date=15 March 2020}}

1993

|Duranta Prem

|Deepak Sharma, Chandana Sen, Tapas Paul, Rachna Banerjee, Tota Roy Choudhury, Dolon Roy, Subhendu Chatterjee, Shakuntala Barua

1994

|Sandhyatara

|Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Debashree Roy, Manoj Mitra, Uttam Mohanty, Sumanta Mukherjee

|{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/sandhyatara-35720|title=Sandhyatara (1994)|last=|first=|date=|website=Cinestaan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401214838/https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/sandhyatara-35720|url-status=live|archive-date=1 April 2018|access-date=15 March 2020}}

1995

|Andolan

|Rituparna Sengupta

1996

|Lathi

|Victor Banerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Abhishek Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Satabdi Roy, Rituparna Sengupta, Pallavi Chatterjee, Dulal Lahiri, Dipankar De, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Haradhan Banerjee, Manoj Mitra, Nirmal Kumar, Kaushik Banerjee, Bodhisattva majumdar, Debika Mitra, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Gita Dey, Tota Roy Choudhury, June Malia, Pushpita Mukherjee, Koushik Sen

|{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movie-details/lathi/movieshow/66376447.cms|title=Lathi|last=|first=|date=|website=The Times of India|language=en|access-date=14 March 2020}}

1997

|Joddha

|Chiranjeet, Debashree Roy, Tapas Paul, Abhishek Chatterjee, Priyanka Trivedi, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Lily Chakravarty

1997

|Sedin Chaitramas

|Sanjib Das Gupta, Indrani Dutta, Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Dipankar De

1999

|Khelaghar

|Supriya Devi, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Sreelekha Mitra, Abhishek Chatterjee, Pallavi Chatterjee

1999

|Shudhu Ekbar Bolo

|Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Mouli Ganguly

1999

|Tumi Ele Tai

| Victor Banerjee, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Tapas Paul, Anuradha Roy, Santu Mukherjee, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Arpita Chatterjee

2000

|Shesh Thikana

|Supriya Devi, Jaya Seal Ghosh, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Shakuntala Barua

2005

|Ek Mutho Chhabi

|Rajatabha Dutta, Sreelekha Mitra, June Malia, Arunima Ghosh, Roopa Ganguly, Indrani Halder, Pallavi Chatterjee, Samata Das, Monami Ghosh, Biplab Chatterjee, Moumita Gupta, Bikram Ghosh, Kunal Mitra, Koushik Sen, Dilip Roy

2005

|Manik

| Jeet, Koel Mallick, Ranjit Mallick, Debdoot Ghosh, Samata Das, Shyamal Dutta, Biplab Chatterjee, Rajesh Sharma, Monu Mukherjee

2005

|Shubhodrishti

| Jeet, Koel Mallick, Parambrata Chatterjee, Sanjib Dasgupta, Bharat Kaul, Laboni Sarkar, Biswajit Chakraborty, Dilip Ray

2006

|Priyotama

|Jeet, Swastika Mukherjee, Laboni Sarkar

2007

|Pitribhumi

|Jeet, Swastika Mukherjee.Lily Chakravarty, Shakuntala Barua

2010

|Hangover

| Prosenjit Chatterjee, Subhra Kundu, Joy Kumar Mukherjee, Sayantika Banerjee, Subhashish Mukherjee, Biplab Chatterjee, Supriyo Dutta

2011

|Bhorer Alo

|Priyanshu Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Rohit Roy, Anusmriti Sarkar

2015

|Birat 22

|{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/Zee-Bangla-Originials-thriller-Birat-22-to-air-on-November-8/articleshow/49688341.cms|title=Zee Bangla Originals' thriller Birat 22 to air on November 8|last=|first=|date=|website=The Times of India|language=en|access-date=14 March 2020}}

He also directed 16 telefilms & 3 TV Series.

=Assistant Director=

=Actor=

Abhimanyu (1989)
Amanush (1975)

=Legacy=

Book

Clapstick : Autobiography of Prabhat Roy

References

External links

{{IMDb name|1110725}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120929005552/http://www.citwf.com/person55544.htm Prabhat Roy] at citwf
[http://www.upperstall.com/people/raj-chakraborty Prabhat Roy] at upperstall

Category:1946 births

Category:20th-century Indian people

Category:21st-century Indian people

Category:Bengali film directors

Category:Directors who won the Best Film on Family Welfare National Film Award

Category:Film directors from West Bengal

Category:Hindi-language film directors

Category:Living people

Category:Film directors from Kolkata

Category:Filmfare Awards Bangla winners