Tulsi Chakraborty
Tulsi Chakraborty ( Bengali: তুলসী চক্রবর্তী, Tulsi Cakrabartī; * March 3, 1899 in the village Goari, Bengal, † December 11, 1961 in Howrah, West Bengal ) was an Indian actor of Bengali film and theater. He is best known for his roles as a character actor and comedian.
Career
Theater
Through his paternal uncle, who at Star Theatre - a famous Bengali theater company at the time - was employed, Chakraborty came with the stage play into contact. 1916 took him to the actor, director and head of the troupe Aparesh Chandra Mukhopadhyay on to training. He became a singer, actor and dancer and also learned instruments such as tabla or Pakhawaj to play. In 1920 he made his stage debut at Star Theatre in Durgeshnandini, a melodrama based on the novel of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. Until 1927 he remained with the Company and then moved to Manmohan Theatres. Later, from 1944 to 1951, he worked for various companies such as Rang Mahal, Sriranagam and Minerva Theatres. In the 1950s, Chakraborty had to reduce his stage appearances for health reasons, he had his last stage role in Shreyashi ( 1960).
Film
Chakrabortys film debut was a small role in Premankur Atorthys Punarjanmo (1932 ) at the dominant Kolkataer film company New Theatres. He gained attention after a further small roles for the first time in 1934 with Sachidulal by Prafulla Roy. His next film was the comedy success Manmoyi Girls' School ( 1935), in which he played the lead role alongside Kanan Devi, director of the film was Jyotish Bannerjee. This commercially successful adaptation of a stage play Chakrabortys began film career as a comedian. He played afterwards among many other well-known Bengali directors like Phani Burma, Hemchandra Chunder, Pramathesh Chandra Barua, Kartick Chattopadhyay, Debaki Bose, Niren Lahiri, Ajoy Kar or Nirmal Dey. Frequently Tulsi Chakraborty was with the actor Chhabi Biswas front of the camera.
In Bimal Roy's first two films as director - Udayer Pathey / Hamrahi ( 1944) and Anjangarh (1948 ), filmed in a Bengali and Hindi version, he had one starring role as Bengali middle class citizens. In Sankha Sindoor (1948 ) from a screenplay by Pratap Chandra Chunder, who later became India's education minister, Chakraborty played an East Pakistan refugee in one of the first films about the partition of Bengal in 1947. His musical abilities he could in Debaki Bose's film Kavi (1949 ) demonstrated ask when he sang his own compositions. In the first Uttam Kumar - Suchitra Sen film, Sharey Chuattar (1953), embodied the bald actor Chakraborty the landlord.
After a small role as a village school teacher in Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali (1955 ), he played under this director two years later in Parash Pathar the role of bank employees Paresh Dutta, who happens to find a small stone that turns everything into gold. This is now considered his most famous role and highlight of his career.
Tulsi Chakraborty died of a heart attack. His last film, Ami Ratan Ajit Bannerjee was filmed in 1961 but not published until 1977.