Subhash Dutta (9 February 1930 – 16 November 2012) was a Bangladeshi filmmaker, theater and film actor. He started his career as a commercial artist.[4] Dutta was heavily influenced bySatyajit Ray and his deep affection towards Satyajit earned him the nickname "Duttajit".
At the beginning of his career, Dutta worked as a film poster artist. He drew posters forMukh O Mukhosh (1956), the first Bengali-language movie to be made inEast Pakistan (now Bangladesh). He directed his first movie,Sutorang, in 1964.[4] The movie won the second prize at the Frankfurt Festival in 1965.[4] In 1972, he acted with the theatrical group,Aranyak Nattyadal.[4]
His directed movies were awarded at thePhnom Penh Film Festival (1968) and the Moscow Film Festival (1967, 1973, 1979). He also got an award for his acting from the Pakistan Film Festival (1965).[4]
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