FILM DIRECTOR

Tapan Sinha

1924 - 2009

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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 452,665 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Tapan Sinha is the 1,587th most popular film director (down from 1,354th in 2019), the 899th most popular biography from India (down from 708th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Indian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Tapan Sinha ranks 1,587 out of 2,041. Before him are Sándor Sára, David Silverman, Sırrı Süreyya Önder, Gerardo Vera, Jessica Hausner, and Mike van Diem. After him are Dominik Moll, Alex Cox, Jason Reitman, Paul McGuigan, Felix van Groeningen, and Susan Seidelman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Tapan Sinha ranks 471. Before him are Ron Staniforth, Nek Chand, William H. Gass, Zsuzsa Körmöczy, Terry Southern, and Ivan Udodov. After him are Louie Bellson, Jimmy Rogers, Vajiha Samadova, Mal Whitfield, Jo Benkow, and Wendell Ford. Among people deceased in 2009, Tapan Sinha ranks 368. Before him are Gennadiy Shatkov, Brenda Joyce, Stanislav Markelov, Paul Burke, Mohammed Yusuf, and Oswald Karch. After him are Louie Bellson, Ellie Greenwich, Lucy Gordon, Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, Aldo Valentini, and Alfred Swift.

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In India

Among people born in India, Tapan Sinha ranks 899 out of 1,861. Before him are Baselios Cleemis (1959), Parmanand Jha (1944), Gulshan Kumar (1956), Surekha Sikri (1945), Ravi Zacharias (1946), and Narain Karthikeyan (1977). After him are Teejan Bai (1956), Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (1944), Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II (1734), Aasif Mandvi (1966), Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938), and Kaifi Azmi (1919).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Tapan Sinha ranks 19. Before him are Tarsem Singh (1961), Ismail Merchant (1936), V. Shantaram (1901), Subhash Ghai (1945), Deepa Mehta (1950), and Aparna Sen (1945). After him are Karan Johar (1972), Nasir Hussain (1931), Prakash Jha (1952), Mani Ratnam (1956), Sanjay Leela Bhansali (1963), and Tariq Anwar (1945).

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Filmography

Death of a Doctor
Director
After years of painstaking research at the cost of his domestic pleasure, Dr. Dipankar Roy discovers a vaccine for leprosy. The news is flashed over television and just as the junior doctor receives international recognition, he has to suffer humiliation from the professional jealousy and abuse of power from his seniors.
Jan 1o 19905.5 / 10
Kabuliwala
Director
Rahmat, a middle-aged fruit seller from Afghanistan, comes to Calcutta to hawk his merchandise and befriends a small Bengali girl called Mini who reminds him of his own daughter back in Afghanistan. One day Rehmat receives news of his daughter’s illness and decides to return to Afghanistan. But before he goes a violent fight with a customer leads to Rehmat killing him. He gets out of prison ten years later. Based on a Rabindranath Tagore story.
Apr 1o 19575.5 / 10
A Story That's True
Director
In a family where relations have deteriorated to the worst level, even affecting professional lives, an outsider tries to rebuild the lost love and compassion.
Oct 13o 19667.5 / 10