Bappaditya Bandopadhyay

Bappaditya Bandopadhyay

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Bappaditya Bandopadhyay Profile

  • Name:
  • Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
  • Born:
  • August 28, 1970
  • Father:
  • Debashish Bandopadhyay

Bappaditya Bandopadhyay Biography

Bappaditya Bandopadhyay is a Bengali film director and a poet. He has also directed one Hindi movie, Devaki in 2005 in Hindi. He is also a story writer and screenwriter. He debut in the year 1999 with Sampradan, followed by Silpantar, Kantatar, Elar Char Adhyay, Nayika Sangbad, Kaal, Houseful and Kagojer Bou. He received Most Promising Director award for the year 2003 of the BFJA. His second feature film Silpantar was premiered at the Sofia International Film Festival, Bulgaria and selected at the 2003 Helsinki International Film Festival, only the second Indian film after Devdas.

 

Bappaditya Bandopadhyay, also credited as Bappaditya Banerjee was born on 28 August 1970. His father Debashish Bandopadhyay is a journalist by profession. His mother is a teacher. He completed BA and MA in sociology from Ashutosh College, Kolkata. He started his film career with the movie, Sampradan in 1999. The movie won three major awards at International film festival held at Dhaka in 2000. The movie also won Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Female Playback Singer in the BFJA Awards that year. The movie also won Dishari award for best music direction. His second movie, Silpantar released in 2002 was a blockbuster hit. The movie starred Subhasish Mukherjee, Debashree Roy and Nemai Ghosh in leading roles.

 

He debut Bollywood with the movie Devaki in 2005. The movie starred Perizaad Zorabian, Suman Ranganathan and Ram Kapoor in lead roles. The movie was screened at the Indian Osean section of the 7th Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival and also competed in the Temecula Valley International Film Festival and the Idaho International Film Festival. It also won the Best Feature Film Award at the Asheville Film Festival. Bandopadhyay has also directed a television serial, Anandanagarir kathakata.

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Updated: April 02, 2014

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