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Pinaki Chaudhuri

Other names of Pinaki Chaudhuri: Pinaki Chowdhury

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Bengali Cinematographer Pinaki Chaudhuri

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In the Indian film industry, Pinaki Chowdhury, often known as Chowdhury, is a Bengali film director, producer, and screenplay writer. Chowdhury is well known for directing films like Ek Tukro Chand, Kakababu Here Gelen, and Chena Achena Rohini is a naive girl living along with her broth >> Read More... . Chowdhury has won two National Film Awards The National Film Awards gets presented every year >> Read More... ; Best Feature Film in 1997 for Sanghat and for Ballygunge Court in 2007. Pinaki Chaudhuri, born on September 19, 1940, in Bengal, had a passion for fine arts since he was a child, which manifested itself in his learning to play the tabla. At a very young age, he became the pupil of the late Ustad Kermatullah Khan and quickly developed into a child prodigy, earning awards in different events.

He went on to become a film producer in 1977, producing two films, Suryasakshi and Father. After a few years, Pinaki produced and directed Chena Achena in 1982, starring, Tanuja, Soumitra Chatterjee Soumitra Chatterjee was born on January 19, 1935, >> Read More... , and Amol Palekar Amol Palekar was born on 24th November, 1944 in Mu >> Read More... in the key parts, which immediately became a commercial success. Following Chena Achena, he produced and directed two more feature films, Apon Ghare, starring Moonmoon Sen, Prasenjit, Subhendu Chatterjee Dr Subhendu Chatterjee was a well-known Indian phy >> Read More... , and Sumitra Mukherjee Sumitra Mukherjee (fondly called Hashi) was an act >> Read More... , and Mandanda, also which featured popular Bengali actors. Targeting the Hindi audience, he later went on to make his first Hindi telefilm- Narak, for Doordarshan national network, followed by Hindi Tele-serial Arakshaniya, in 1992 and another Hindi Telefilm Balidan in 1993. Later in 1994, moving into the Film industry from television, he directed a feature film Kakababu Hayray Caylane. Pinaki's expertise and comprehension of the media grew with each of his coming directorial initiatives, starting with Narak to Atikram, which masterfully dealt with the portrayal of women’s psychology, and their quest for independence.

Later he made two more Telefilms; Wazood and Ek bar phir, both of which dealt with topics concentrating on strong female protagonists. Pinaki produced and directed the Bengali feature film “Sanghat” in late 1996, based on a narrative by Dibyendu Palit Dibyendu Palit was an Indian writer of Bengali poe >> Read More... , a well-known novelist, which was awarded the ‘Best feature film in the Bengali language. It also received special jury mention for Dolon Roy, for portraying woman’s struggle for social justice and liberation. In a period of two decades. His film Sanghat has practically completed a full circle in his efforts to create films that are both thought-provoking and entertaining in nature.