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Top 10 Bengali Screenwriters

1. Arundhati Devi


Image Arundhati Devi, born to Bibhuticharan Guha and Thakurta, on 29th April 1924, was an Indian actress, writer, singer, and director from Barisal ( now Bangladesh) known for her works in the Bengali film industry. Her excellent work in the industry made her an evergreen actress and is still considered one of the greatest and finest talents in the Bengali film industry. She is an alumnus of Visva-Bharati University, where her Guru Sailajaranan Majumdar trained her in Rabindra Sangeet. All India Radio marks her debut as a Rabindra Sangeet singer in 1940. With the film Mahaprasthaner Pathe( by Kartik Chattopadhyay), she made her debut as an actress in the Bengali film industry in the year 1952. She is best known for her work in the film...
Date of Birth: 29-04-1924
Date of Death: 16-10-1990
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Bengali
Date of Birth: 29-04-1924
Date of Death: 16-10-1990
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Bengali

2. Nitin Bose


Image Nitin Bose is a Director and producer. He is associated with the Hindi Cinema. He was born in Kolkata (The then Calcutta), and India. He was born on April 26 and in the year is 1897. He is also a cinematographer and storywriter by profession. His spouse name is Santi Bose. He did his education from Hindu School, Kolkata, and India. He has two children. Their name is Neeta Bose and Rina Bose. His father's name is Hemendra Mohan Bose, who was a Bengali entrepreneur. His mother name is Mrinalini. Nitin had a keen interest in photography. Upendrakishore Raychowdhury is the brother of his mother, Mrinalini. Satyajit Ray is the grandson of Upendrakishore. In the year 1921, Nitin had done a documentary as a director on the topic, Visit of B...
Date of Birth: 26-04-1897
Date of Death: 14-04-1986
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director
Date of Birth: 26-04-1897
Date of Death: 14-04-1986
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills: Director

3. Sekhar Das


Image Sekar das is a director, Producer, Scriptwriter, Playwriter, and actor in Bengali Film Industry and had worked on 20 Short Films. He started his career in acting, and later, worked as a writer. He had written multiple scripts. Sekhar had also won National and International awards. He also worked as a director. He had worked as a presenter, writer, and director. Das films focus on Mysteries and thrill. He has adapted four classics of Anton Chekov. Das worked on a travelogue program for three years. The program covered different places from Asia and other continents. With Cinema Sekhar had also worked in theatre arts. Das has directed many plays like Condemned of Altona, Can’t play won’t play, Visarjan, and many more. Some of S...

4. Sukhen Das


Image Sukhen Das was an Indian Bengali film actor, story writer and director. He was born on July 28, 1938 in Kolkata, British India and died on April 04, 2004 in Kolkata due to heart failure. Sukhen married twice. His son, Rajat Das is an actor and director. Sukhen’s real name is Sukhendranath Das. Sukhen spent most of his childhood in an Orphanage and he had to discontinue his studies because of financial problems. Later, he fled from the orphanage and took shelter in a doctor’s chamber. During the time in the doctor’s chamber, he roamed near the film studios or sets and was spotted to act as a child actor by Debnarayan Gupta for the movie Dasiputra released in the year 1949. Sukhen acted in many commercial movies like Maa ...
Date of Birth: 28-07-1938
Age: 86
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Date of Birth: 28-07-1938
Age: 86
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali

5. Arjunn Dutta


Image Arjunn Dutta is an Indian Filmmaker and Screenwriter. He works in the Bengali film industry. He was born in 1986 in Kolkata, West Bengal. Dutta's first project was a feature film Abyakto which was released in 1980. The film received critical appreciation and many awards at film festivals. He had released a short film called The 6th Element in 2016, which received positive critical reviews. His second film was Guldasta, which was released on October 21st, 2020. The film did moderately well after it was released. His third film Srimati is still in the making and has been halted because of the pandemic. Dutta holds a Master's degree in Sociology from the Presidency College in Kolka...
Date of Birth: 1986
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Director
Date of Birth: 1986
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Director

6. Soukarya Ghosal


Image Soukarya Ghoshal is an Indian film Director, Lyricist, Screenwriter, Cartoonist, and Animator who works primarily in the Bengali film industry. He was born on 7th June 1986. His best-known works are Pendulum, Loadshedding, Rawkto Rawhoshyo, etc. Ghoshal started his career in the field of art by as working the staff cartoonist for Robbar, the periodical of Sangbad Pratidin, a Bengali daily. He took to direction while he was working on Tenali Rama in Kishore Bharathi where he felt that his creations lacked sound and mobility. This led him to quit his job and pursue a career in filmmaking. He started his directorial venture with his feature film ‘Pendulum’ in 2014 which had Radhika Apte, Rajesh Sharm...
Date of Birth: 07-06-1986
Age: 38
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Director
Date of Birth: 07-06-1986
Age: 38
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Director

7. Ranjan Ghosh


Image Ranjan Ghosh is an Indian Filmmaker and Writer. He was born on January 8th in Calcutta, West Bengal. He debuted as a director with his 2014 movie Hrid Majharey, starring Abir Chatterjee and Raima Sen in lead roles. The movie received critical acclamation and catapulted Ghosh as one of the leading directors in the Bengali film industry. The film was based on the works of Bard and was given as a tribute to him on his 450th birth anniversary. It was also screened at the Tisch School of the Arts under New York University in 2015 and was later included in their Ph.D. in Cinema Studies (Shakespeare and Indian Cinema). The film was later made part of the UGC Literature Archive through the Shakespeare in Bengal project, carried out by J...
Date of Birth: 08-01
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Director
Date of Birth: 08-01
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Director

8. Jahar Kanungo


Image Jahar Kanungo is a Bengali film and documentary Director and Producer. He shot to fame with his 2005 movie Nishhabd, for which he received many laurels as well. Kanungo was born in 1946 in Chittagong which is in present-day Bangladesh. He is married to Lima Kanungo. He has worked as a travel and wildlife photographer. Kanungo has written travelogues as well as stories and plays for children which have been published in prominent Bengali literary journals. He has researched and made a documentary based on the tiger cult in Sunderbans, the largest delta in the world located in West Bengal. In addition to this, he set up his own company Kanungo Media Pvt. Ltd in 1993. His movie ‘Nishhabd’, which featured...
Date of Birth: 1946
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Director
Date of Birth: 1946
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Skills: Director

9. Sombhu Mitra


Image Born on August 22, 1915, in Calcutta (Kolkata), Sombhu Mitra was an Indian movie and stage on-screen character, recite, director, writer and an Indian theater identity. He is the son of Sharat Kumar Mitra, who is an employee at the Geological Survey of India and Satadalbasini Mitra. He had six siblings and Sombhu was 6th among them. He began his education in Chakraberia Middle English School and later proceeded to the Ballygunge Government High School in Calcutta, where he created spirit perusing Bengali plays and got to be distinctly dynamic in school shows. In 1931, he went on to join St. Xavier's College of Calcutta and soon began going to the nearby theater. In 1939, in North Calcutta, he joined the Rang Mahal Theater, trailed by...
Date of Birth: 22-08-1915
Date of Death: 19-05-1997
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali
Date of Birth: 22-08-1915
Date of Death: 19-05-1997
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Bengali

10. Shomu Mukherjee


Image Shomu Mukherjee is an Indian Film Director, Writer, and Producer. He worked in the Hindi Film Industry. Shomu was born on the 19th of June in the year 1943. He was born in Jamshedpur, Bihar. His father’s name is Shashadhar Mukherjee, and his mother’s name is Sati Rani Devi. He is the fourth son. Shomu is married to actress Tanuja who acted in many hit films like Deedar (1992), Maa Beti (1986), Lal Kothi (1978), Swarg Narak (1978), Aaj Aur Kal (1963), and many more. They have two daughters. Their elder daughter is Kajol Mukherjee who is a well-known actress in Bollywood Industry; she worked in many hit films like Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Baazigar, Pyaar Kiya Tho Darna Kya, Helicopter Eel...
Date of Birth: 19-06-1943
Date of Death: 10-04-2008
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Date of Birth: 19-06-1943
Date of Death: 10-04-2008
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

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Born: 20 November 1921

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Born: 20 November 1966

Age Now 58

Suman Mukhopadhyay - (Director)

Born: 20 November 1982

Age Now 42

Timir Biswas - (Singer)

Born: 20 November 1950

Age Now 74

Shahriyar Kabir - (Journalist)

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