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Bimal Mitra | |
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| Born | 18 March 1912 Fatehpur, Bengal Province, British India |
| Died | 2 December 1991 (aged 79) Chetla, Calcutta, West Bengal, India |
| Occupation | writer |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Genre | Novelist, Stories |
| Notable works | Saheb Bibi Golam, Kori Diye Kinlaam |
| Notable awards | Rabindra Puraskar |
Bimal Mitra (18 March 1912 – 2 December 1991) was an Indian writer in Bengali. Bimal Mitra was equally adept in writing in Bengali as well as in Hindi, and wrote more than one hundred novels and short stories. Many of Bimal Mitra's novels have been made into successful films. One of his most popular works, Shaheb Bibi Golam (January 1953) which was adapted into a hugely popular movie. He also earned a Filmfare nomination for Best Story for the film.[1]
Set in the last years of the nineteenth century, the novel tells the story of the sumptuous lifestyle and the decay of a feudal family. It is the story of Pateshwari, aka Chhoto Bou, a woman who wants to experience romance, to be a real wife, to invent for herself and live a new kind of conjugality. The book also tells the story of Calcutta, now Kolkata, and of all the people who lived there.
Asami Hazir is another popular work of Bimal Mitra. The novel is based on the true story of a man who wants to repent for the sins of his father and grandfather. The novel was adapted into a TV series for Doordarshan - Mujrim Hazir.[citation needed]
He had served in railways in Bilaspur for long years. He was working in the Chakradharpur Division in the 1940s in the Control Organisation. One of his novelettes Char Chokher Khela is based on the lives of the Anglo-Indian population of Chakradharpur railway colony.[2]
He resigned from Indian Railway Services in 1950 at the age of 38 to become a full-time writer.[citation needed]
Mitra died on 2 December 1991, at his residence named "Baansh Bhavan" in Chetla, South Calcutta.[3]
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- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 June 2009. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
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