Birendra Nath Sircar
Birendra Nath Sircar (often BN Sircar, Birendranath Sircar; Bengali: বিরেন্দ্র নাথ সরকার, Birendra Nath Sarkar or বি এন সরকার; * 1901 in Bhagalpur, † November 28, 1980 in Calcutta ) was an Indian film producer and functionary.
Life
Birendra Nath Sircar, was born as the second son of Sir Nripendra Nath Sircar, Advocate General of undivided Bengal and member of the Council of the Viceroy. He studied civil engineering at London University and, after graduating there with " Martin Burn & Company". Through the supervision of Filmtheaterbauten 1928/29, he became interested in the film business, and gave up his job.
He had his own cinema " Chitra " (later renamed " Mitra " ) build in the north of Kolkata, which was opened by Subhash Chandra Bose in December 1930. In 1931 he took over the management of another cinema in Howrah, which he rebuilt into a talkie cinema. His third movie with the name " New Cinema", where only Hindi films have been, he built in 1932 in the center of Kolkata. He also had Filmvorführstätten in Burdwan, Benares and Shillong.
1930 Sircar had the production company " International Film Craft " was founded, under whose name he produced two silent films of his co-partner Prafulla Roy and Charu Roy. With the beginning of the talkie era in India, he opened his studio in early 1931 South Kolkataer district Tollygunj and named his company " New Theatres " around. In the 24 years of its existence came about 150 films, some of which originated in languages in Hindi or Tamil, to serve außerbengalische markets. Although the focus was on profit, Sircar made a point of high-quality fabrics to socially critical themes and literature of Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, Rabindranath Thakur or Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay filming permit. In addition to promoting talented filmmakers as Premankur Atorthy, PC Barua, Bimal Roy, Debaki Bose, Phani Majumdar, Timir Baran, Nitin Bose, KL Saigal, Pankaj Mullick, Sisir Bhaduri, Amar Mullick, RC Boral, KC Dey, Durgadas Bannerjee, Sailajananda Mukherjee, Jiban Ganguly, Sushil Majumdar, Pahadi Sanyal, Prithviraj Kapoor, Kanan Devi, Chandrabati Devi, Dhiren Ganguly, Jamuna Barua or Chhabi Biswas belonged to Sircar's achievements and the introduction of playback singing in Indian films in Nitin Bose's Bhagya Chakra / Dhoop Chhaon ( Bengali / Hindi, 1935).
After the closure of the New Theatres Studios 1955 Sircar retired from the film business, but continued working as an official in several film organizations. He also served as President of the Bengal Motion Picture Association, President of the Screen Federation of India, Member of the Central Board of Film Censors ( 1951 ) and the Film Finance Corporation ( 1960 ) and founding member of the Children's Film Society ( 1955).
Birendra Nath Sircar in 1971 was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Padma Bhushan in 1972 with the.