Amit Bose was an Indian filmmaker, film director and editor, who directed all-time classics like Abhilasha and, as an Editor, worked on movies like Madhumati, Sujata, Parakh, Usne Kaha Tha, Kabuliwala, Prem Patra, Bandini and Shakespeare Wallah.
17 Facts About Amit Bose
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Amit Bose worked as Chief Film Editor for Bimal Roy and with several other directors including Sanjay Khan.
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Amit Bose's grandfather was the geologist Pramatha Nath Bose, who discovered rich iron ores, that made the Empire of JRD.
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Dutt's daughter Kamala Dutt Bose, a renowned educator who founded the "Kamala Girls School" at Ballygunge was married to Pramatha Nath Bose and was his grandmother.
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Amit Bose worked as an assistant to the film director Nimai Ghosh during the making of Chinna Mul.
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Amit Bose then went to Mumbai and worked as an assistant to the Director Phani Majumdar at Bombay Talkies Studios in Malad, in 1947.
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Amit Bose appeared in a bit-part in Majumdar's film Tamasha, which starred the Great Indian Screen Heroine of all time, Meena Kumari.
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On his return to India, and after his marriage in Kolkata in September 1957, Amit Bose settled in Mumbai, where he worked as the Chief Film Editor for Bimal Roy.
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Amit Bose edited films like Madhumati, Sujata, Parakh, Usne Kaha Tha, Kabuliwala, Prem Patra and Bandini, which he left before completion, because of an opportunity to direct a Children's Film, for which he was awarded the Best Director Award in the same year.
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Amit Bose directed the children's film Five Puppets for the Children's Film Society India, for which he was awarded best Director by the President of India, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, in 1964.
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Amit Bose's credits include movies like Chori Chori, Godaan, Kaajal, Abhilasha, At Five Past Five, Chandi Sona and The Courtesans of Bombay.
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Amit Bose taught film technology in the Film Institute in Pune, India.
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Amit Bose introduced and helped many unknown actors to stardom and more than 20 editors, from assistantship to full editorship.
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Amit Bose helped young talents grow, by telling them all his secrets, as De Sica once upon a time told him.
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Amit Bose was retired and lived with his wife Monica in London, United Kingdom.
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Amit Bose has five grandchildren, including television producer Simone Thorogood.
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Amit Bose was specialized in dubbing films from different languages to English and vice versa.