Debaki Bose
Debaki Kumar Bose ( born November 25, 1898 in Akalpoush, † November 17, 1971 in Kolkata ) was an Indian film director and screenwriter of the Bengali and Hindi film.
Life
Debaki Kumar Bose came from the Bengal Bardhaman district and was the son of the well-known Solicitors Madhusudan Bose. During his studies at Bidyasagar College in Kolkata, he learned under Sisir Bhaduri, the doyen of Bengali theater in the early 20th century. Bose left the university influenced by the campaign of non-cooperation. 1927/28, he was the editor of the magazine " Shakti " in Bardhaman. Dhiren Ganguly hired him in 1930 for his production company, British Dominion Films as an actor and writer for Dinesh Ranjan Das ' film Kamaner Aagun. In the same year Debaki Bose had his directorial debut with the silent film Panchasar. After a short work for Pramathesh Chandra Barua Baruas Pics he was from 1932 to 1934 at Birendra Nath Sircar's New Theatres. He directed Chandidas (1932 ), the first film success of the studio and his first sound film. The film is considered a classic of Indian saint film and deals with the eponymous Bengali Vaishnava poet of the 14th century, played by theater actor Durgadas Bannerjee. The performers were arrested theater and stiff, but at the sound recordings of the background music of this film by Rai Chand Boral, the sound engineer Mukul Bose overcame some technical problems of the early Indian sound film. The following year, Bose was a director of a similar large-scale production of the mystic Mirabai, which was filmed in a Bengali version and a Hindi version. The title role took Chandrabati Devi ( Bengali ) and Durga Khote (Hindi ). 1934 Debaki Bose went to the East India Company movie where he (1934 ) Seeta turned with the first film of the canvas pair Prithviraj Kapoor / Durga Khote. From 1937 to 1941 he was employed again at New Theatres. With Bidyapati (1937 ) Debaki Bose overcame the usual in the Indian film static spectacle. In particular, Kanan Devi coined the movie with her intense representation. In 1945, Bose 's own film company " Debaki Bose Productions " where he employed stars of the Maratha and the Hindi film.
For his last feature film Sagar Sangamey (1959 ) Debaki Bose received a National Film Award for Best Film. The film was shown in competition at the Berlinale 1959. To mark the 100th anniversary of Rabindranath Thakur he filmed the documentary Arghya (1961 ) on the Indian caste system, which was based on four poems Thakur.
Debaki Bose in 1957 honored for his work as a director Sangeet Natak Akademi Award with and received in 1958 a Padma Shri.