Phani Majumdar

Phani Majumdar was a legendary Indian film director. He worked in the Hindi film industry. He was one of his time directors to work abroad. He worked in the country of Singapore for a while. He was born on 28th of December in the year 1911 and died at the age of 82 on 16th of May in the year 1984. He belonged to a small town called Faridpur in East Bengal. He started his career in the year 1938 and successfully worked until the year 1986. He was married to Monica Desai Monica Desai was a famous Indian actress during 19 >> Read More... , actress Leela Desai’s sister. He is known as one of the pioneering directors of Indian Cinema. He is prominent for his work on the film ‘Street Singer’ which was released in the year 1938. It casted K. L. Saigal in the lead role and was known for its hit song ‘Baabul Mora Naihar’.

He is also recognized for his work in Meena Kumari’s classic ‘Aarti’ which released in 1962 and ‘Oonche Log’ which is a film from 1965. In Singapore, he made a movie called ‘Hang Tuah’ which released in 1956 and was nominated at the 7th Berlin International Film Festival for the Golden Bear. Along with being a Film Director, he was also a scriptwriter. He started his journey in Indian Cinema in the 1930s with the renowned Film Director P. C. Barua. He worked at the New Theaters Studio in Calcutta which was founded by B. N. Sircar. Sircar during that phase made classics like ‘Devdas’. Phani moved to Bombay in the year 1941 and started working with the studio – Bombay talkies. He made the film ‘ Tamanna Tamanna depicts an Indian girl Dharaa, who aims to >> Read More... ’ along with Suraiya which was released in 1942. His another flick, Mohabbat, was released in 1943 and Andolan was released in the year 1951.

The movie ‘Oonche Log’ won multiple awards. It was given the Second Best Feature Film’s National Film Award. Phani has made movies in the language Magadhi like ‘Bhaiya’ which was released in 1961. He has also worked in the language Maithili, for instance, his film Kanyadaan which was launched in the year 1965. Shakti Samanta Shakti Samanta, an eminent Indian film director, w >> Read More... , who became a successful director and produce, assisted Majumdar in the movie Tamasha, Dhobi Doctor and Baadbaan. This was at Bombay talkies, after which Shakti started working independently. Some other films by Phani Majumdar are ‘Sathi’ (1938), ‘Hum Bhi Insaan Hai’ (1948), ‘Doktor’ (1958), ‘Kaajal’, ‘Akashdeep’, etc. He is the only filmmaker to have directed in nine different languages.