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Tulsi Lahiri

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DOB : 07-04-1897
Date of death: 22-06-1959
Lived For : 61 Years
Star Sign : Aries
Gender : Male

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Tulsi Lahiri was a renowned Indian actor, director, and play writer who mainly worked in Bengali theatre and cinema. He was born on 7 April 1897 in a Zamindar family in Naldanga village of Rangpur district, Bangladesh, British India. He completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor in Law and started his career as a lawyer in Rangpur court. Tulsi Lahiri later went to Alipore, Kolkata, where he met Ustad Jamiruddin Khan, who recorded two of his songs and inspired him to join His Master's Voice, a British record label company created in 1901, as a music director. He agreed with Ustad Jamiruddin Khan and started a new career in Bengali cinema and theatre. He started working on stage and films as an actor, vocalist, and instrumentalist.

Some of the notable stage dramas by Tulsi Lahiri are Mahasampad, Cholabali, Dukhir Iman, Vitti, Chenra Taar, Natyakar, Nayak, Churayyananda, Banglar Mati, and Thikadar. Initially, Tulsi Lahiri got to work in some silent films and later got lead roles in Bengali movies. The first movie by Tulsi is Sisir Kumar Bhaduri's Mohini, in 1921, in which he worked with Sisir Kumar Bhaduri, Tulsi Banerjee, and Patience Cooper Patience Cooper was an Angolo-Indian, who was born >> Read More... .

In 1923, he worked in another Bengali drama, Matri Sneha, directed by Jyotish Bannerjee. The film has released on 17 March 1923 and starred Akshaybabu, Amar Choudhury Amar Choudhury was born in 1897 in Calcutta, West >> Read More... , and Patience Cooper. Some of the notable projects by Tulsi Lahiri are Radha Krishna or Kalanka Bhanjan by Priyanath Ganguly (1933), Avatar by Premankur Atorthy Premankur Atorthy was an Indian journalist, noveli >> Read More... (1941), Prabhritika by Bidhayak Bhattacharya Bidhayak Bhattacharya was a renowned Indian noveli >> Read More... (1947), Saheb Bibi Golam by Kartik Chattopadhyay (1956), Sagar Sangamey By Debakar Bose (1959), Parash Pathar by Satyajit Ray Biographies reveal bare details about the maverick >> Read More... (1958), and Mriter Marte Agaman by Pashupati Chtterjee (1959).

The latest movie in which Tulsi Lahiri appeared with the co-stars Ujjwal Bandyopadhyay, Durgadas Bannerjee Durgadas Bannerjee was an Indian actor and singer >> Read More... , and Shefali Bannerjee is The River. It has directed by Rajen Tarafder and released in August 1961. As a writer, Tulsi Lahiri debuted in 1940 with Prafulla Roy's Thikadar. He also acted in the film with Durgadas Bannerjee and Jiban Ganguly. With Kanal Basu, Tulsi Lahiri wrote another movie in 1954, Grihapravesh, directed by Ajoy Kar Ajoy Kar was a known Indian cinematographer and fi >> Read More... . He wrote his final film, Antariksha (1957), directed by Rajen Tarafdar Rajen Tarafdar was a screenplay writer, director, >> Read More... . Tulsi Lahiri also composed music for the movies, Bangalee in 1936 and Thikadar in 1940.