Basu Bhattacharya

Basu Bhattacharya

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Basu Bhattacharya Profile

  • Name:
  • Basu Bhattacharya
  • Died:
  • August 27, 1997

Basu Bhattacharya Biography

Basu Bhattacharya was a Hindi film director who made his mark as one of the pioneers of parallel cinema in Hindi. He is most famous for his debut film Teesri Kasam (1966), the movie which won National Film Award for Best Feature Film. Though the movie starring Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman in the lead roles was a commercial failure, this movie is grouped under All-time classics and a much expected project of the director. He started his career assisting great Bollywood director Bimal Roy and later married his daughter, Rinki Bhattacharya without his consent. Noted film director Aditya Bhattacharya is their son, who later married and divorced Sanjana Kapoor of Kapoor family (Shashi Kapoor’s daughter). Due to domestic abuse, his wife Rinki left him in 1983 and the couple formally divorced in 1990.

 

Basu Bhattacharya was born in Kolkata in 1934 to a family of Bengali priests. His film career started in assistant’s role in 1958 when he assistant Bimal Roy in Madhumati, followed by Sujata. He fell in love with Bimal Roy’s daughter, Rinki, a film journalist and got married against the wish of his mentor, Bimal Roy. Thus he and Bimal drifted apart. The couple had one son and two daughters. His son, Aditya Bhattacharya is a famous film director and one of the daughters, Anwesha Arya, a writer. In 1983, his wife accused him of domestic violence and moved out. They got divorced in 1990. Her anthology on Domestic Violence in India, titled, Behind Closed Doors – Domestic Violence in India became successful.

 

His directorial debut happened with the movies, Teesri Kasam and Uski Kahani, both released in 1966. As a film director, his most significant works are Teesri Kasam (1966), Anubhav (1971) and Avishkaar (1973). Aastha: In the Prison of Spring (1997) was his last movie.

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Updated: April 02, 2014

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