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Buddhadeb Dasgupta

1944 - 2021

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Buddhadeb Dasgupta (11 February 1944 – 10 June 2021) was an Indian filmmaker and poet best known for his Bengali-language films like Bagh Bahadur, Tahader Katha, Charachar and Uttara. Five of his films have won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film, Bagh Bahadur (1989), Charachar (1993), Lal Darja (1997), Mondo Meyer Upakhyan (2002) and Kaalpurush (2008), while Dooratwa (1978) and Tahader Katha (1993) have won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali. As a director, he has won National Film Award for Best Direction twice, for Uttara (2000) and Swapner Din (2005). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Buddhadeb Dasgupta has received more than 261,948 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Buddhadeb Dasgupta is the 6,254th most popular writer (down from 6,032nd in 2019), the 877th most popular biography from India (down from 858th in 2019) and the 117th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Buddhadeb Dasgupta ranks 6,254 out of 7,302. Before him are Andrew Vachss, Ferenc Juhász, Donald A. Wollheim, Mikael Niemi, Cheryl Strayed, and Charles Eastman. After him are Akif Pirinçci, R. C. Sherriff, Studs Terkel, Michael Chabon, Alex Yermolinsky, and Dorothy Richardson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Buddhadeb Dasgupta ranks 672. Before him are Bunji Kimura, Liesel Westermann, Gunnar Larsson, Tim Reid, Frank Rühle, and Reinhold Bachler. After him are Ross Collinge, Miroslav Poljak, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, David M. Walker, Rúben Bareño, and John Komlos. Among people deceased in 2021, Buddhadeb Dasgupta ranks 588. Before him are Graham McRae, Ottorino Sartor, Ekkehard Fasser, Guillermo Sepúlveda, Andrew Vachss, and Hans van Baalen. After him are Wayne Thiebaud, Barbara Shelley, Kinza Clodumar, Ron Flowers, Umberto Colombo, and Viktor Shuvalov.

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In India

Among people born in India, Buddhadeb Dasgupta ranks 877 out of 1,861. Before him are Pratima Barua Pandey (1934), Huma Qureshi (1986), Kanu Sanyal (1928), P. Bhanumathi (1925), Arun Jaitley (1952), and Chaudhry Muhammad Ali (1905). After him are Mahendra Kapoor (1934), Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916), Annapurna Devi (1927), Nitin Gadkari (1957), Gita Mehta (1943), and Krishan Kant (1927).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Buddhadeb Dasgupta ranks 117. Before him are Ruskin Bond (1934), Gurdial Singh (1933), Bano Qudsia (1928), Ravindra Kelekar (1925), Vikram Seth (1952), and Varsha Adalja (1940). After him are Gita Mehta (1943), Mah Laqa Bai (1768), Fareed Zakaria (1964), Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938), Kaifi Azmi (1919), and Rahat Indori (1950).

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