A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
Satyajit Ray
Ritwik Ghatak
Mrinal Sen
Tapan Sinha
Uttam Kumar
Suchitra Sen
Aparna Sen
Soumitra Chatterjee
Buddhadev Dasgupta
Rituparno Ghosh
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Bengali Cinema
Chhabi Biswas
One of the outstanding actors of Benglai Cinema, Chhabi Biswas was born in 1900 in Kolkata. His original name was Sachindranath Dey Biswas. First ever acting was done in the movie 'Annapurnar Mandir' in 1936. His performance in Satyajit Ray's 'Jalsaghar' (The Music Room) as a landlord with fading glory and in Tapan Sinha's 'Kabuliwala' as an immigrant Afgan father were unforgettable. Biswas died in 1962 in a car accident.

Filmography:

Film Year Director
Annupurnar Mandir 1936 Tinkari Chakraborty
Chanakya 1939 Sisir Kumar Bhaduri
Nimai Sannyas 1940 Phani Barma
Abhayer Biye 1942  
Debar 1943 Jyotish Banerjee
Saat Nambar Bari 1946  
Biraj Bou 1946  
Chadrasekhar 1947  
Durgesh Nandini 1951 Amar Mallik
Sadanander Mela 1954  
Chhele Kaar 1954  
Kabuliwala 1956 Tapan Sinha
Jalsaghar 1958 Satyajit Ray
Devi 1960 Satyajit Ray
Saptapadi 1961 Ajay Kar
Kanchanjangha 1962 Satyajit Ray
Dadathakur 1962 Sudhir Mukherjee