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 833,426 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Basu Chatterjee is the 1,778th most popular film director (down from 1,696th in 2019), the 1,062nd most popular biography from India (down from 948th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Indian Film Director.

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  • 20

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  • 1.50

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  • 3.91

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Over the past year Basu Chatterjee has had the most page views in the with 66,302 views, followed by Hindi (2,912), and Bengali (1,979). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Western Punjabi (1,706.25%), Malagasy (110.92%), and Turkish (87.38%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Basu Chatterjee ranks 1,778 out of 2,041. Before him are Valentyn Vasyanovych, Morgan Spurlock, Rajkumar Hirani, Adam Curtis, Simon Kinberg, and Jon Watts. After him are Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Cesc Gay, Phedon Papamichael, Greg Berlanti, John Moore, and Oliver Parker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Basu Chatterjee ranks 627. Before him are Bill Lienhard, Charles Correa, Indrani Rahman, Joan Mondale, Ronnie Corbett, and Dave Sexton. After him are Ivy Dumont, Conn Findlay, Frank Shakespeare, Timothy Findley, Bill Brock, and Joni James. Among people deceased in 2020, Basu Chatterjee ranks 804. Before him are Paul Sarbanes, Mac Davis, José Figueroa, Fatemeh Rahbar, Géza Szőcs, and Carlos Girón. After him are James M. Beggs, Angela Buxton, Ezio Bosso, Bernard Bailyn, Alexander Vedernikov, and John Sessions.

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In India

Among people born in India, Basu Chatterjee ranks 1,062 out of 1,861. Before him are Rajkumar Hirani (1962), Tinnu Anand (1945), Rajiv Kapoor (1962), Vikram Batra (1974), Pooja Bhatt (1972), and Sohail Khan (1970). After him are Ranjan Gogoi (1954), Akhilesh Yadav (1973), Reshma (1947), Arjun Rampal (1972), Philip Herbert Cowell (1870), and Poonam Dhillon (1962).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Basu Chatterjee ranks 35. Before him are David Dhawan (1955), Ebrahim Alkazi (1925), Mehboob Khan (1907), Aditya Chopra (1971), Farah Khan (1965), and Rajkumar Hirani (1962). After him are Aishwarya R. Dhanush (1982), Deepak Tijori (1961), Muzaffar Ali (1944), Shakti Samanta (1926), S. S. Rajamouli (1973), and Goutam Ghose (1950).

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Filmography

Chhoti Si Baat
Director
Arun is a shy accountant in Bombay who dreams of romancing Prabh, but never gets past following her around without managing to actually speak up. While Arun twiddles his thumbs, suave Nagesh steps into the picture and turns on the heat, prompting Arun to take "love coaching" from "romance specialist" Julius Nagendranath to win Prabha back.
Jan 9o 19767.3 / 10
Ek Ruka Hua Faisla
Director
Twelve male members of a jury gather together in an enclosed room to deliberate their decision on a charge of murder against a young man who has been accused of killing his elderly father. All of the jury, save for one, are convinced of this young man's guilt, and they would like to convince their colleague also to come to the same unanimous decision. But will they be able to convince him to change his verdict? Its a hindi remake of the movie 12 angry men.
Mar 24o 19868 / 10
Rajnigandha
Director
A Delhi-based woman in a steady relationship with her boyfriend is forced to come to terms with her true feelings when a job interview in Mumbai brings an old flame back in her life.
Sep 13o 19745.5 / 10