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Occupation
  
Years active
  
1938-1976

Name
  
Ramananda Sengupta



Born
  
9 May 1915 (age 109) (
1915-05-09
)

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Ramananda Sengupta (8 May 1916 – 23 August 2017) was an Indian cinematographer. He was born in Dhaka in 1916 and became a centenarian in 2016.

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Sengupta stood behind the lens in more than 70 films. His work in cinematography began in 1938 when he joined as an apprentice at the Aurora Film Corporation in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). He worked with G. K. Mehta, as first assistant on the 1941 film Kurukshetra. Sengupta's first independent work was Purbaraag directed by Ardhendu Mukherjee. Sengupta worked with French director Jean Renoir when he came to Kolkata to shoot his 951 film The River.

In 1997 Utsav Mukherjee prepared a documentary Under Exposed about Sengupta. Siddhartha Maity has written a book and made a documentary, Alor Frame e Chhayar Saaj (Framing Light Against the Shadows) about Sengupta.

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Documentaries

  • Modern and Ancient Architecture of India
  • Religion
  • Autobiography of an Elephant
  • Life in the Backwater of Malabar Cochin
  • References

    Ramananda Sengupta Wikipedia


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