1. Tapan Sinha was one of the most prominent Indian film directors of his time forming a legendary quartet with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen.
19 Facts About Tapan Sinha
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Tapan Sinha was primarily a Bengali filmmaker who worked both in Hindi cinema and Bengali cinema, directing films like Kabuliwala, Louha-Kapat, Sagina Mahato, Apanjan, Kshudhita Pashan and children's film Safed Haathi and Aaj Ka Robinhood.
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Tapan Sinha was one of the acclaimed filmmakers of Parallel Cinema movement of India.
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Tapan Sinha was admitted in the Durgacharan M E School of Bhagalpur in the fifth standard.
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Tapan Sinha's Principal was Surendranath Gangopadhyay who happened to be Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's maternal uncle.
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Charles Dickens's novel, A Tale of Two Cities and the cinematic adaptation featuring Ronald Colman inspired Tapan Sinha to get involved in film-making.
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Tapan Sinha went to London in the 1950s to learn film-making.
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Tapan Sinha got to work in director Charles Crichton's unit as a sound engineer.
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Tapan Sinha started as a sound recording engineer and gradually shifted to directing.
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Tapan Sinha was greatly influenced by contemporary American and British Cinema, in his youth.
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Tapan Sinha used to think that he had to make films on the lines of his favourites.
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Tapan Sinha's Ek Je Chilo Desh is a fantasy film, based on a story by Shankar.
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Tapan Sinha made a few documentaries, including a biographical film on scientist Jagadish Bose.
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Tapan Sinha's Sagina Mahato might be categorized as a political film, although it was reactionary in nature and was a direct attack on left-wing politics.
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Raja Sen's documentary on Tapan Sinha is entitled Filmmaker for Freedom.
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Tapan Sinha's works left an impact and influence on Bollywood filmmakers like Hemen Gupta, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Gulzar, Ashutosh Gowariker and Bengali filmmakers like Raja Sen, Kamaleshwar Mukherjee.
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Tapan Sinha has served as a member of the jury in the popular film festivals at Tashkent and San Francisco among others.
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Tapan Sinha has been selected for the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for the year 2006 for his outstanding contribution to Indian cinema.
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Tapan Sinha made another telefilm Didi with Deepti Naval as the central character.