director · Parallel Cinema

Buddhadeb Dasgupta

1944–2021

Silver Lion for Best Director at Venice 2000 (Uttara); Locarno critics' and Special Jury awards; 12 National Film Awards.

A poet-turned-filmmaker whose surreal, painterly images of rural Bengal made him one of the most internationally decorated directors of the post-Ray generation.

Known for

Bagh Bahadur (1989) · Charachar (1993) · Uttara (2000) · Kaalpurush (2005)

Known for

Directed