Utpalendu Chakrabarty
{{Short description|Indian filmmaker (1948–2024)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Utpalendu Chakrabarty
| birth_date = {{birth year|1948}}
| birth_place = Pabna District, Rajshahi Division, East Bengal, Pakistan
| death_date = {{death date and given age|2024|08|20|76|df=y}}
| death_place = Kolkata, West Bengal, India
| nationality = Indian
| occupation = Filmmaker
| notable_works = Chokh
Maina Tadanta
| spouses = Indrani Chakraborty (div.){{cite web |script-title=bn:আমার সঙ্গে মেয়েদেরও মেরেই ফেলত উৎপলেন্দু |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/entertainment/filmmaker-satarupa-sanyal-shares-about-her-previous-marriage-life-1.626716}}
Satarupa Sanyal (sep.)
| children = 3, including
Ritabhari Chakraborty
Chitrangada Satarupa
}}
Utpalendu Chakrabarty (1948 – 20 August 2024) was an Indian filmmaker based in Kolkata.
Life and career
Chakrabarty was born in Pabna District in 1948.{{Cite web |title=Bikalpa (1988) |url=https://indiancine.ma/ACOE/info |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=Indiancine.ma}} Utpalendu graduated from Scottish Church College, of the University of Calcutta.Some Alumni of Scottish Church College in 175th Year Commemoration Volume. Scottish Church College, April 2008, page 591
Chakrabarty was involved in left-wing politics in his student life and spent time in Purulia among the tribal.{{Cite news |date=2024-08-20 |title=Utpalendu Chakraborty Passes Away: চিরতরে চোখ বুজলেন 'চোখ'-এর স্রষ্টা! শোকের ছায়া বাংলা ছবির জগতে... |url=https://zeenews.india.com/bengali/entertainment/utpalendu-chakrabarty-a-class-film-director-creator-of-chokh-passes-away_535243.html |access-date=2024-08-21 |website=Zee24Ghanta.com}} Although he started out as a teacher, his passion was cinema. He made several documentaries and films. He was once married to Indrani Chakraborty and later divorced.{{Cite web |script-title=bn:আমার সঙ্গে মেয়েদেরও মেরেই ফেলত উৎপলেন্দু |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/entertainment/filmmaker-satarupa-sanyal-shares-about-her-previous-marriage-life-1.626716 |access-date=20 August 2024}} He remarried to director and activist Satarupa Sanyal but divorced in 2000. His daughters Chitrangada Satarupa and Ritabhari Chakraborty{{Cite web |last=Khatun |first=Reshmi |date=2024-08-20 |script-title=bn:চলে গেলেন জাতীয় পুরস্কার প্রাপ্ত পরিচালক উৎপলেন্দু চক্রবর্তী |url=https://www.eimuhurte.com/entertainment/national-award-winning-bengali-director-utpalendu-chakrabarty-passes-away/ |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=Ei Muhurte Breaking News in Bangla, বাংলা খবর, বাংলার আজকের খবর এই মুহূর্তে |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=#TheExtaOrdiNAARIs: Ritabhari Chakraborty opens up about her mother, who left her alcoholic husband to raise two young kids alone {{!}} Exclusive |url=https://www.ottplay.com/news/theextaordinaaris-ritabhari-chakraborty-opens-up-about-her-mother-who-left-her-alcoholic-husband-to-raise-two-young-kids-alone-exclusive/3b3c2a8b1c243 |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=OTTPlay |language=en}} revealed that they had no connection to Utpalendu, their biological father.{{Cite news |date=2024-05-03 |title=Director Utpalendu Chakraborty returns home a month after hip surgery |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/director-utpalendu-chakraborty-returns-home-a-month-after-hip-surgery/articleshow/109817929.cms |access-date=2024-08-20 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}{{Cite news |date=2024-08-20 |script-title=bn:ঋতাভরীদের পরিবারে শোকের ছায়া, প্রয়াত জাতীয় পুরস্কারজয়ী উৎপলেন্দু চক্রবর্তী |url=https://bangla.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/ritabhari-chakrabortys-father-utpalendu-chakraborty-passed-away-31724162376107.html |access-date=2024-08-20 |work=Hindustan Times |language=bn}}
He has won the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director at the 28th National Film Awards in 1980 for Maina Tadanta, the National Film Award for Best Feature Film and Direction at the 30th National Film Awards in 1982 for Chokh, the Berlin International Film Festival OCIC Award in 1983 for Chokh and the National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film at the 32nd National Film Awards in 1984 for Music of Satyajit Ray.{{Cite web |last=C-DIT |title=Chokh {{!}} Homage |url=https://iffk.in/filmdetail/OTI5ODI1NjcuNDg= |access-date=2025-02-19 |website=iffk.in |language=en}}
Chakrabarty died in Kolkata on 20 August 2024, at the age of 76.[https://www.indiablooms.com/showbiz-details/T/18853/national-award-winning-bengali-filmmaker-utpalendra-chakrabarty-dies-at-76.html National award-winning Bengali filmmaker Utpalendra Chakrabarty dies at 76]
Filmography
=Director=
=Feature films=
- Prasab 1994
- Chandaneer 1989
- Phaansi 1988
- Debshishu 1985
- Chokh 1983{{Cite web |title=Bilingual E-archive Digital Platform for Bengal's Cinema |url=https://www.bengalfilmarchive.com/filmography-details.php?t=MTU3OQ== |access-date=2024-08-21 |website=Bengal Film Archive}}
- Maina Tadanta 1980
=Television films=
- Dwibachan 1989
- Sonar Chheye Dami 1989
- Rang 1989
- Bikalpa 1988
- Aparichita 1986
- Aparichita 2002
- Kalo Patharer Itikatha (Balad of the black Stone)
- Chua Chandan
- May Day 2005
=Documentaries=
- The Music of Satyajit Ray 1984
- Debrata Biswas 1983
- Mukti Chai 1977
- Sunilo Sagore (On The Life of Sunil Gangopadhyay)
=Writer=
- The Music of Satyajit Ray (Documentary) 1984
- Chokh (Screenplay / Story) 1983
=Composer=
- Chokh 1983
=Music director=
- Chhaturtha Panipather Juddha 1995
Awards
- Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director at the 28th National Film Awards in 1980 for Maina Tadanta
- National Film Award for Best Feature Film at the 30th National Film Awards in 1982 for Chokh{{Cite web |title=৭৮-এ থামল পরিচালকের সফর |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/entertainment/national-award-winning-bengali-director-utpalendu-chakrabarty-passes-away-dgtl/cid/1539814 |access-date=20 August 2024}}
- National Film Award for Best Direction at the 30th National Film Awards in 1982 for Chokh
- Berlin International Film Festival OCIC Award in 1983 for Chokh
- National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film at the 32nd National Film Awards in 1984 for Music of Satyajit Ray.
- Banga Bibhushan by Government of West Bengal.
References
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External links
- [http://www.calcuttaweb.com/cinema/utpalenduchakrabarty.shtml Calcuttaweb Utpalendu Chakrabarty] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304152302/http://www.calcuttaweb.com/cinema/utpalenduchakrabarty.shtml |date=4 March 2012 }}
- {{IMDb name|0149812}}
- [http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=748085 On The Music of Satyajit Ray] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327013655/http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=748085 |date=27 March 2012 }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100513044905/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060428/asp/etc/story_6139925.asp On Chokh]
- [https://archive.today/20130125053728/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2010/10/29/stories/2010102951390400.htm On Debshishu]
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Category:Bengali film directors
Category:Indian male screenwriters
Category:Indian documentary filmmakers
Category:Scottish Church College alumni
Category:University of Calcutta alumni
Category:Best Director National Film Award winners
Category:Film directors from Kolkata
Category:21st-century Indian people
Category:Indian television directors
Category:Screenwriters from Kolkata
Category:20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights
Category:20th-century Indian male writers
Category:Director whose film won the Best Debut Feature Film National Film Award
Category:Directors who won the Best Feature Film National Film Award