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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.
Most Popular Tapan Sinha Trailers
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27 August 1998
Set in the imaginary village of Ajab Gaon (Strange Village) , the story revolves around several characters.
05 October 1951
The film is a romantic story about a wealthy Brahmo woman and a poor but intelligent Hindu man. It explores their growing love despite societal obstacles.
14 June 1985
An invaluable emerald was stolen from Lord Krishna's temple on an island. A detective agency investigates.
20 March 1964
Madhuri cannot bear a child yet her husband Shatadal is fond of children. They decide to part ways but years later when they meet in a railway station they realize their fondness for each other hasn't died.
04 June 1965
This is the story of the wanderlust in a teenage boy, Tarapada, who often ran away from his home for days to join groups of wandering players, musicians and acrobats.
04 June 1976
A child princess gets a harmonium from her father. Through fate and manager she is orphan, then widow and penniless.
14 January 1977
Unsuccessful film-maker (Vijay Arora) chronicles the story of two orphaned children, Shibu (Ashwani), and his elder sister, Rani (Gayetri Sharma), who live with their abusive maternal uncle (Sadhu Meher), and aunt (Mala Jaggi).
30 April 1971
Ekhonee depicts the lives and frustrations of a bunch of youth struggling to cope with the adversities of a bureaucratic society.
15 July 1974
Sagina a factory laborer,an aggressive, honest and lovable character who was the first to fight against the tyranny of the British bosses in the Tea gardens of North-Eastern India.
03 October 1986
A teacher witnesses a murder committed by his ex-student, who restricts him from giving his statement to the police.
17 May 1963
A writer meets five widows on a train to Puri. As the six lives begin to intertwine, the theme of the taboos of widowhood emerge; but so, too, does a philosophy of life and hope for the future.
01 April 1967
The story of Dr. Mukherjee, a highly respected civil surgeon in a small tribal district headquarters.
07 December 1962
Against the backdrop of the Indo-China war of 1962, Tapan Sinha made a short documentary meant to arouse patriotic feelings, called Aamar Desh.
02 August 1960
A tax collector posted to a small town puts up at a mansion feared by the locals because it is haunted.
29 July 1977
A scientist accidentally finds a drug that can reveal an individual's past. However, when a few politicians fear their exposure, they plot to kill him.
07 April 1972
Desperate for a cook, the disgruntled Sharmas are relieved when a multi-talented man, Raghu, takes up the job.
17 August 1979
Raja Roychowdhury and his nephew Santu travel to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to solve the mystery behind the continuous disappearance of researchers at a remote island inhabited only by a primitive tribe.
01 April 1984
A 1984 Hindi-language telefilm directed by Tapan Sinha.
01 April 1973
Shortly after her marriage a young woman who has always had trouble with her eyesight goes completely blind.
06 December 1968
An aged widow from a village moves to Calcutta to stay with relatives, but faces only exploitation. She moves to a slum, and finds her "own people" in a group of educated, unemployed youth, who are caught up inexorably in the prevalent political violence.
29 January 1980
The story of an old peasant,Bancharam (Mitra),who defeats the tyrannical landlord Chhakari (Dey).Inheriting a dry patch of land, Bancharam converts it into a fabulous garden.
01 March 1961
Gauri Shankar Roy looks much like the king of Jhind. When the actual king, Shakar Singh, goes missing, a person from the kingdom approaches Gauri to pretend to be the king.
01 April 1959
The struggles of a doctor in rural India.
06 October 1989
A telefilm.
08 July 1994
A Documentary on Tapan Sinha
16 February 1951
A group of six friends desperately try to find a suitable bride for their friend Ganesh. One of the six friends is already married and now wants even Ganesh to get married soon.
25 October 1949
A 1949 Indian Bengali Film directed by Satyen Bose.
15 July 1982
A young woman's struggle for justice after she is raped by rich boys.
01 January 1990
After years of painstaking research at the cost of his domestic pleasure, Dr. Dipankar Roy discovers a vaccine for leprosy.
14 April 1962
Set in 1941, the film delves into the complexities of rural life in Bengal. It sheds light on the oppressive Zamindari system, a social structure that perpetuates inequality and suffering.
01 April 1957
Rahmat, a middle-aged fruit seller from Afghanistan, comes to Calcutta to hawk his merchandise and befriends a small Bengali girl called Mini who reminds him of his own daughter back in Afghanistan.
01 April 1958
Based on a story of the Bengali writer Jorasandho, this film takes a sympathetic view of hardened criminals, and was notable in its time for its unsentimental and realistic depiction of the daily grind behind bars and the complex relationships that develop between the inmates.
14 March 2001
This film is based on five shot stories of Rabindranath Tagore's Jibito O Mrito, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's Abhagir Swarga, Gour Kishore Ghosh's Aei Daha, Prafulla Roy's Satgharia and Dibyendu Palit's Kaanch.
01 January 1972
This movie revolves around a village hospital that was built by a generous hearted man, Choudhury Ramprasad (Ashok Kumar) who is also a patient in the hospital.
13 October 1966
In a family where relations have deteriorated to the worst level, even affecting professional lives, an outsider tries to rebuild the lost love and compassion.
10 December 2009
Nawren, Nawgen and Nobin, three friends enjoying their retirement, decide to end the monotony in their lives and earn some extra money by setting up a tea stall.
04 September 1964
The romanticized story of a peasant who lives in a small village. He learns to read and is befriended by a doctor who helps him improve his status in the community.
19 March 1954
Tapan Sinha's debut film is based on a Narayan Ganguly story SAINIK, which figured an elephant in the central character.
06 June 1958
The first film to deal with life in creches in coalmine areas.
09 March 1956
Tapan Sinha's first Comedy Film & Madhabi Mukherjee's Debut Film.
07 February 1991
A professor's daughter goes missing, which starts a desperate search for her by his family and acquaintances.
14 July 1994
After being raped in her office and becoming paralyzed, a woman gets help from a doctor who is in a wheelchair.
30 December 1955
Krishna, the daughter of a penny-pincher, falls for their tenant, Sunil. However, when Sunil leaves to forge a career, her insensitive father fixes her marriage with someone else for money.
19 February 1988
Drama set during the British rule in India has Jatin Chatterjee, a young revolutionary on the run from authorities, take refuge in the home of Shyam Jadhav, who hires Jatin to teach his sons, Ram, Ramdas, and Ramdulaare.
01 July 1971
After instigating a strike over the improper dismissal of a fellow worker, Sagina Mahato unwittingly finds himself lauded as a champion of worker's rights.
09 February 2000
Fisherman Mahadev finds a shiny pink pearl that brings him luck, and soon he wins the lottery. But a greedy goldsmith wants the pearl at any cost and hires goons to kidnap Mahadev's daughter.
