Abhi Bhattacharya

Abhi Bhattacharya

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Abhi Bhattacharya Profile

  • Name:
  • Abhi Bhattacharya
  • Born:
  • November 20, 1918

Abhi Bhattacharya Biography

Abhi Bhattacharya is a veteran actor who worked in Bollywood and Bengali cinema. He is associated with cinema since 1947 and a few of his memorable movies include - Yatrik (1952), Jagriti (1954), Anuradha (1960) and Subarnarekha (1965). He has worked in both mainstream and commercial cinema and has worked with legends like Satyen Bose, Guru Dutt, Bimal Roy and Ritwik Ghatak. He is a close friend to Amiya Roy Chowdhury, fondly called Dadaji. Abhi has accompanied him in world tours in the early 1970s.

 

In 1956 he received Filmfare best supporting actor for the Hindi movie, Jagriti. He played lead roles in Yatrik (Hindi) and Subarnarekha (Bengali). He played supporting roles in Bollywood movies – Anuradha, Aradhana, Jab Yaad Kisi Ki Aati Hai, Amar Prem, Seeta Aur Geeta, Naunihal, Amanush, Dost, Do anjane, Imtihaan etc. He played the role of Vishnu in notable number of movies.

 

He was born in Bengal in 20th November, 1918. Naukadubi – released in 1947 marked his acting debut. The movie was based on the novel by Rabindranath Tagore and he was given the first break by Nitin Bose. He regularly appeared in Bengali and Hindi movies, both in leading and supporting roles and was a star of Bengali cinema. Subarnarekha (1965) directed by Ritwik Ghatak is one of the milestone movies of his career. The movie – one among the trilogy has been included in the best movies ever made on Indian screen and the movie based on Partition of India was widely appreciated by critics. He played the central character Ishwar Chakraborty, a Hindu refugee in this movie. He also appeared in the same director’s Meghe Dhaka Tara.

 

With the early 1970s he turned to spirituality and got associated with Amiya Roy Chowdhury. "Destiny with Dadaji" accounts his relation with Dadaji.

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Updated: September 15, 2014

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