Sachin Bhowmick
Sachin Bhowmick ( Bengali: শচীন ভৌমিক, Sacin Bhaumik; born July 17, 1930 in Kolkata, † April 12, 2011 in Mumbai) was an Indian screenwriter. He was involved in about 100 film productions, in a film he also directed.
Life
Sachin Bhowmick went in the late 1950s from Kolkata to Mumbai and there replaced in a film the author Premendra Mitra. His first work in 1958 for the film Lajwanti with Nargis in the lead role. He used a short story, which he had already published in a Bengali magazine Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Anuradha For ( 1961). According to his autobiography Bhowmick had inspiration from Flaubert's " Madame Bovary ".
In addition to film romances Bhowmick also wrote thrillers and comedies, he worked alongside Hrishik Mukherjee also Nasir Hussain, Subhash Ghai and Rakesh Roshan. His only own film director, he realized in 1973 with Raja Rani with Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore in the lead roles. He was honored for Brahmachari with a Filmfare Award for Best Story and was also nominated in this category for Aradhana (1969) and Pehchan (1970).
In 2003 he made a libel complaint against the British best-selling author Barbara Taylor Bradford after she sued him for copyright infringement of a television soap opera.
Bhowmick died at the age of 80 at his home in Bandra, Mumbai from heart failure.