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Jyotish Bandyopadhyay

Jyotish Bandyopadhyay
  • Name: Jyotish Bandyopadhyay
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  • Also known as: Jyotish Bannerjee,জ্যোতিষ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়,জ্যোতিষ ব্যানার্জী
  • Place of birth: Bihar, Bengal Presidency, British India (now India)
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Biography: Bengali and Hindi director born in Bihar. He started as a typist at Madan Theatres; and later became the studio’s main film-maker in the silent era. Part of a film-making team with Priyanath Ganguly, Jyotish Mukherjee, Amar Choudhury, B.J. Rajhans, Abdur Rehman Kabuli (later star of Indra Sabha, 1932) and cameramen Jyotish Sarkar and T. Marconi. Initially worked with Eugenio De Liguoro (Dhruva Charitra, Nala Damayanti, both 1921; Ramayana, 1922) and C. Legrand (Vishnu Avatar, 1921). Early films mainly adapted stage spectaculars from the Elphinstone and Corinthian companies. In his late 20s Silents, he adapted several novels by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay owned by Madan Theatres. Also... Read More

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