Subrata Mitra was born in Calcutta, Bengal to Shanti and Sudhangshu Bhushan Mitra.
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Subrata Mitra was a great-grandson, on his paternal grandmother's side, of the orientalist Brajendranath Dey.
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Subrata Mitra was a younger cousin of the singer Uma Bose and a nephew, even though he was older than him, of the historian Barun Dey.
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Subrata Mitra was educated at Ballygunge Government High School, Kolkata.
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Subrata Mitra continued to work with him for many of Ray's later films.
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Subrata Mitra is known for pioneering the technique of bounce lighting while filming The Apu Trilogy.
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Coutard was at the time much more acclaimed than Subrata Mitra having collaborated with Godard on many of his film projects.
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Subrata Mitra recalls arguing in vain with both Chandragupta and Ray about the impossibilities of simulating shadowless diffused skylight.
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Subrata Mitra placed a framed painter white cloth over the set resembling a patch of sky and arranged studio lights below to bounce off the fake sky.
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Subrata Mitra has to observe restraint in his work like the actor.
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From 1997 until his death, Subrata Mitra was an emeritus professor of cinematography at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute at Kolkata.