Nemai Ghosh (director)

Nemai Ghosh
Born 1914
Calcutta, West Bengal, British India [now India]
Died 1988
Occupation Cinematographer, director
Years active 1940s-1981

Nemai Ghosh or Nimai Ghosh [1](1914 - 1988) was an Indian film director and cinematographer, most known for his film Chinnamul (1950).

Career

Ghosh started his career as a stage actor with Little Theatre Group formed by Utpal Dutt .[2] In addition to photography, he directed the highly acclaimed and neo-realistic Chinnamul (1950), that dealt with partition of Bengal during the partition of India in 1947. Film director Ritwik Ghatak started his film career as an assistant in this film.[3][4][5]

However despite critical acclaim Chinnamul failed commercially, thereafter Goshi relocated to Madras (now Chennai), he worked in Tamil cinema as a cinematographer [6] in a few films and directed a film titled Paathai Theriyudhu Paar, that won Certificate of Merit for Second Best Feature Film in Tamil.[1] His last film as a director was the Tamil film Sooravali (1981).

Filmography

As director
As cinematographer

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "8th National Film Awards". International Film Festival of India. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Moving Stills". Aug 22, 2004. Retrieved 2013-09-29.
  3. ↑ Anjali Gera Roy; Nandi Bhatia (2008). Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement, and Resettlement. Pearson Education India. pp. 68–. ISBN 978-81-317-1416-4. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  4. ↑ Rosalind Galt; Karl Schoonover (2010). Global Art Cinema : New Theories and Histories: New Theories and Histories. Oxford University Press. pp. 241–. ISBN 978-0-19-972629-5.
  5. ↑ Laura E. Ruberto; Kristi M. Wilson (2007). Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema. Wayne State University Press. pp. 81–. ISBN 978-0-8143-3324-2.
  6. ↑ Jisha Menon (29 November 2012). The Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan, and the Memory of Partition. Cambridge University Press. pp. 58–. ISBN 978-1-107-00010-0.

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