Tapan Sinha

Tapan Sinha

Tapan Sinha (2 October 1924 – 15 January 2009) was one of the most prominent Indian film directors of his time forming a legendary quartet with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen. He was primarily a Bengali filmmaker who worked both in Hindi cinema and Bengali cinema, directing films like Kabuliwala (1957), Louha-Kapat, Sagina Mahato (1970), Apanjan (1968), Kshudhita Pashan and children's film Safed Haathi (1978) and Aaj Ka Robinhood. Sinha started his career in 1946, as a sound engineer with New Theatres film production house in Kolkata, then in 1950 left for England where he worked at Pinewood Studios for next two years, before returning home to start his six decade long career in Indian cinema, making films in Bengali, Hindi and Oriya languages, straddling genres from social realism, family drama, labor rights, to children's fantasy films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tapan Sinha has received more than 443,385 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Tapan Sinha is the 1,360th most popular film director (down from 1,340th in 2019), the 712th most popular biography from India (up from 724th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Indian Film Director.