Raja Sen

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Nationality Indian Name Raja Sen		Role Film director Spouse Papiya Sen

Born November 10, 1955 (age 60) (1955-11-10) Occupation Film Director, Television Director Movies Damu, Krishnakanter Will, Desh, Debipaksha, Atmiyo Swajan, Suchitra Mitra Awards National Film Award for Best Children's Film Similar People Rajeev Masand, Pratim D Gupta, Anuradha Menon, Rajshree Ojha, Sandeep Mohan

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Raja Sen (Born 10 November 1955) is an Indian film and television director, and the winner of three National Film Awards from Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

National Award winning director Raja Sen speaks high about SMPAi SHORTS

Career

Raja Sen first received recognition with Subarnalata (1997), a teleserial, he followed it up with Adarsha Hindu Hotel, Arogyo Niketan, few episodes of Desh Amaar Desh are some of the notables of the Bengali television arena.

He has also documented the real life paradigm of the living legends of Bengal's World of Art & Culture, namely, Suchitra Mitra, Tapan Sinha, Sombhu Mitra, Subhas Mukhopadhyay.

Personal life

Raja Sen is married to Papiya Sen and has two daughters.

Feature film

Damu (1996) - Cast: Raghuvir Yadav, Satya Banerjee, Monoj Mitra, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Rimi Sen (Child Artist).

Atmiyo Swajan (1999) - Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Supriya Devi, Dipankar De, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Rituparna Sengupta, Shakuntala Barua, Alok Mukherjee, Ashok Mitra, Asit Mukherjee, Chaitali Ghoshal, June Malia, Papiya Sen, Piyush Ganguly, Pradip Chakraborty, Rimi Sen (Child Artist), Tridib Ghosh.

Chakrabyuhya (2000) - Indrajeet, Chiranjeet, Anjan Srivastava, Rituparna Sen Gupta, Indrani Haldar, Chitra Sen, June Maliya.

Desh (2002) - Cast: Jaya Bhaduri, Abhishek Bachchan, Sabyasachi Chakravarthy, Subhendu Chatterjee, Gyanesh Mukherjee, Nayana Das, Monu Mukherjee, Kaushik Sen, Rajesh Sharma, Dulal Lahiri.

Debipaksha (2004) - Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Satabdi Roy, Koel Mullick.

Krishnakanter Will (2007) - Cast: Jeet, Soumitra Chatterjee, Swastika Mukherjee.

Tinmurti (2009) - Cast: Ranjit Mullick, Dipankar Dey, Manoj Mitra, Paoli Dam.

Laboratory (2010) - Cast: Raveena Tandon (debut in the Bengali film industry), Arpita Chatterjee, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Ranjit Mullick.

Moubone Aaj (2011) - Cast: Ranjit Mullick, Manoj Mitra, Dipankar Dey, Rahul, Priyanka and Rachana Banerjee.

Colonel (2012) - Cast: Chiranjit, Sabyasachi, Kharaj, Saheb, Shakar, Sudip, and Tapas Paul.

Documentaries

Filmmaker for Freedom (A film on Tapan Sinha) - (YouTube link : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd9drUc53NP6EbPAobtYbWxw6-1yXojMM )

Subhas Mukhopadhyay

Suchitra Mitra

Sambhu Mitra - 3 hours documentation by EZCC

Jyotirmoyee Devi (YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd9drUc53NP7yG7vv6J0hM8_HPCeMqn8O )

Alkaap - a dying folk culture

Itihasher Kolkata (5 episodes on HEritage of Kolkata)

Samaresh Basu (ICIL)

Rosogolla - brand ambassador of Bengal(EZCC)

TV serials

Kolkata Kolkata

Adarsha Hindu Hotel

Subarnalata

Samparka

Arogya Niketan

Anirban

Anjuman

Streeash Charitram

Tarasankarer Chhoto Galpo

Golpo Guchha (ETV - Rabindranath Tagore)

Bankim Sahitye Naari

Desh Amar Desh

Jal Porey Pata Norey

Chirantan

Awards

1993 - Documentary Suchitra Mitra - National Film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film

1997 - Debut feature film 'Damu' - National Film Award for Best Children's Film

1997 - Best Film - Shiromoni Award

1997 - Best Audinence Juvenile Award in Dhaka International Film Festival

1999 - Atmiyo Swajan - National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare

1999 - Cairo International Film Festival

References

Raja Sen Wikipedia

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