Amiya Chakravarty (director)

Amiya Chakravarty
Born(1912-11-30)30 November 1912
Bogra, Bengal Province, British India
Died6 March 1957(1957-03-06) (aged 44)
Bombay, Bombay State, India
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter and producer
SpouseKamala Chakravarty

Amiya Chakravarty (30 November 1912 – 6 March 1957) was an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer, who was leading film director in Hindi cinema of the 1940s and 1950s.[1][2] He is noted for films like Daag (1952), Patita (1953), and Seema (1955) for which he won the 4th Filmfare Award for Best Story.[3][4] Chakravarty is also credited along with Devika Rani for discovering Dilip Kumar, whom he gave his first break in 1944 film Jwar Bhata (1944 film).Chakravarty also produced and directed, for Mars & Movies Productions which he had launched after leaving Bombay Talkies, the film Daag in 1952 for which Dilip Kumar won his first ever Filmfare Award for Best Actor.

He was married to Saraswati Shastri a.k.a. Kamala, younger sister of Lakshmi Shankar (née Shastri) wife of Rajendra Shankar, elder brother of Sitar maestro, Ravi Shankar.[5]

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  2. ^ Gulazāra; Govind Nihalani; Saibal Chatterjee (2003). Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema. Popular Prakashan. pp. 667–. ISBN 978-81-7991-066-5.
  3. ^ Monojit Lahiri (27 June 2012). "Does Bollywood need another Satyajit Ray?". CNN-IBN. Archived from the original on 28 June 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
  4. ^ Suresh Kohli (6 July 2012). "Patita (1953)". The Hindu. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
  5. ^ Ratnottama Sengupta (16 December 2012). "Pandit Ravi Shankar: Music was his universe, his love, his weakness". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2013.