FILM DIRECTOR

Bimal Roy

1909 - 1966

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Bimal Roy (12 July 1909 – 7 January 1966) was an Indian film director. He is particularly noted for his realistic and socialistic films such as Do Bigha Zamin, Parineeta, Biraj Bahu, Devdas, Madhumati, Sujata, Parakh and Bandini, making him an important director of Hindi cinema. Inspired by Italian neo-realistic cinema, he made Do Bigha Zamin after watching Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bimal Roy has received more than 828,981 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Bimal Roy is the 1,540th most popular film director (down from 1,458th in 2019), the 61st most popular biography from Bangladesh (down from 47th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Bangladeshi Film Director.

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  • 830k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Bimal Roy ranks 1,540 out of 2,041. Before him are Nikolai Ekk, Dick Richards, Samuel Maoz, Niki Caro, Martha Coolidge, and Tom McGrath. After him are Jan Kounen, Hannes Holm, Gillian Armstrong, Damián Szifron, Jerry Adler, and Gareth Edwards.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Bimal Roy ranks 395. Before him are Alan Curtis, Piero Scotti, Raúl Landini, Guillermo Douglas, Wallace Stegner, and Philip G. Epstein. After him are Howard Da Silva, Gregor Hradetzky, C. Douglas Dillon, Sam Balter, Gertrude Abercrombie, and Nobuo Arai. Among people deceased in 1966, Bimal Roy ranks 222. Before him are Anders Petersen, Francis X. Bushman, Heinrich Keimig, Eric Fleming, Knut Torell, and George Goulding. After him are Alfred Engelsen, Ethel Clayton, Marguerite Higgins, Lucy Burns, Katsuo Takaishi, and Louis A. Johnson.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Bimal Roy ranks 61 out of 74. Before him are A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury (1915), Mohammad Mohammadullah (1921), Utpal Dutt (1929), Vilayat Khan (1928), Runa Laila (1952), and Geeta Dutt (1930). After him are Irene Khan (1956), Sarat Chandra Das (1849), Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury (1966), A. B. Bardhan (1924), Shakib Khan (1979), and Avijit Roy (1972).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Bangladesh

Among film directors born in Bangladesh, Bimal Roy ranks 3. Before him are Mrinal Sen (1923), and Ritwik Ghatak (1925).

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