Nabendu Ghosh | |
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| Born | ( 1917 -03-27)27 March 1917 Dhaka, British India (presentBangladesh) |
| Died | 15 December 2007(2007-12-15) (aged 90) Kolkata |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Other names | Mukul; Nabendu Bhushan Ghosh |
| Occupation(s) | Author, screenplay writer |
Nabendu Ghosh (27 March 1917 – 15 December 2007) was an Indian author inBengali literature, and screenwriter. He has written screenplays of classicBollywood movies like,Sujata,Bandini,Devdas,Majhli Didi,Abhimaan andTeesri Kasam. He has written stories for movies likeBaap Beti,Shatranj,Raja Jani. He has also acted briefly inDo Bigha Zameen,Teesri Kasam andLukochuri. Later in his career, he directed four movies as well.
Nabendu Ghosh was born 27 March 1917 inDhaka (presently inBangladesh). At the age of 12 he became a popular actor on stage. As an acclaimed dancer inUday Shankar style, he won several medals between 1939 and 1945. Ghosh lost a government job in 1944 for writing Dak Diye Jaai, set against theQuit India Movement launched byIndian National Congress. The novel catapulted him to fame and he moved toCalcutta in 1945. He soon ranked among the most progressive young writers in Bengali literature.
After partition,Urdu was declared the state language ofEast Pakistan; thereby banning all Bengali literature and films. It was this political division that prompted Nabendu Ghosh to joinBimal Roy in 1951, when he leftNew Theatres in Kolkata, to make films forBombay Talkies. Others in the team who also shifted wereHrishikesh Mukherjee,Asit Sen, Paul Mahendra,Kamal Bose and laterSalil Chaudhury. After Bimal Roy's death, Ghosh worked extensively withHrishikesh Mukherjee.[1]
Nabendu Ghosh has written on all historical upheavals of 1940s – famine, riots, partition – as well as love. His oeuvre bears the distinct stamp of his outlook towards life. His literary efforts are 'pointing fingers.' There is a multi-coloured variety, a deep empathy for human emotions, mysterious layers of meaning, subtle symbolism, description of unbearable life. Love for humanity is also reflected in his writings. He has to his credit 26 novels and 14 collections of short story. He directed the filmTrishagni (1988), based onSaradindu Bandopadhyay's historical short storyMaru O Sangha.
He died on 15 December 2007. He is survived by two sons, Dr Dipankar and filmmaker Shubhankar, and daughterRatnottama Sengupta (film festival curator, author, and formerThe Times of India film journalist). His wife Kanaklata had died in 1999.[2] His autobiography,Eka Naukar Jatri was published in March 2008.[3] His daughter-in-law, Dr Soma Ghosh is an acclaimed classical vocalist, and was conferred with the Padma Shree award in 2016.[4]
To commemorate his birth centenary, an English translation of his science fiction novel, Aami o Aami (1999), was released on 25 March 2017. He had worked on the translation with his grandson, Devottam Sengupta. The book is known as Me and I[5] in English.
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