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FILM DIRECTOR

Basu Chatterjee

1930 - 2020

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Basu Chatterjee ( 10 January 1927 – 4 June 2020) was an Indian film director and screenwriter in Hindi Cinema.Through the 1970s and 1980s, he became associated with what came to be known as middle cinema or middle-of-the-road cinema filmmakers, such as Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Bhattacharya, whom he assisted on Teesri Kasam (1966). Like their films, his films dealt with light-hearted stories of middle-class families often in urban settings, focusing on marital and love relationships. The exceptions such as Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (1986) and Kamla Ki Maut (1989), which delved into social and moral issues. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Basu Chatterjee has received more than 838,512 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Basu Chatterjee is the 1,703rd most popular film director (down from 1,308th in 2019), the 952nd most popular biography from India (down from 695th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Indian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Basu Chatterjee ranks 1,703 out of 1,581. Before him are Corneliu Porumboiu, Barry Jenkins, Rob Minkoff, Gareth Edwards, Andrei Kravchuk, and Lisandro Alonso. After him are Casey Neistat, Mike Mitchell, Jake Kasdan, Simon Beaufoy, Debra Granik, and Oren Peli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Basu Chatterjee ranks 562. Before him are Windsor Davies, Charles Rangel, Barbara Lawrence, Bill Brock, Ivy Dumont, and Ronnie Corbett. After him are Cathryn Damon, Terry Nation, Olene Walker, Lawton Chiles, Tony Madigan, and Carlos Loyzaga. Among people deceased in 2020, Basu Chatterjee ranks 735. Before him are Zoltan Sabo, Paul Nihill, Linda Manz, Tibor Benedek, Vasili Kulkov, and Ruhollah Zam. After him are Khagendra Thapa Magar, Dick Thornburgh, Arnold Wolfendale, Charles Portis, Yuichiro Hata, and Dale Hawerchuk.

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In India

Among people born in India, Basu Chatterjee ranks 952 out of 1,493. Before him are Ravi Shankar Prasad (1954), Raveena Tandon (1974), Vikram (1966), Daler Mehndi (1967), Gulshan Grover (1955), and Sarojini Sahoo (1956). After him are Raman Singh (1952), Darshan Ranganathan (1941), Rupi Kaur (1992), Poonam Dhillon (1962), Shobhaa De (1948), and Devi Shetty (1953).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Basu Chatterjee ranks 32. Before him are Farah Khan (1965), Mehboob Khan (1907), Rajkumar Hirani (1962), Aditya Chopra (1971), Ebrahim Alkazi (1925), and David Dhawan (1955). After him are Kiran Rao (1973), Rituparno Ghosh (1963), Ram Gopal Varma (1962), Prabhu Deva (1973), Mani Kaul (1944), and Goutam Ghose (1950).

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Filmography

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