Biography
Ramananda Sengupta (8 May 1916 β 23 August 2017) was an Indian cinematographer. He was born in Dhaka in 1916 and became a centenarian in 2016.Sengupta stood behind the lens in more than 70 films. His work in cinematography began in 1938 when he joined as an apprentice at the Aurora Film Corporation in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). He worked with G. K. Mehta, as first assistant on the 1941 film Kurukshetra.
Sengupta's first independent work was Purbaraag directed by Ardhendu Mukherjee. Sengupta worked with French director Jean Renoir when he came to Kolkata to shoot his 1951 film The River.In 2007 Utsav Mukherjee prepared a documentary Under Exposed about Sengupta. Siddhartha Maity has written a book and made a documentary, Alor Frame e Chhayar Saaj (Framing Light Against the Shadows) about Sengupta.
Filmography
all 8
Movies 8
Director 1
Quiet Flows the Meghna (1973)
Bhanu Goenda Jahar Assistant (1971)
Megh (1961)
Shree Loknath (1960)
Mahalakhmi Puja (1959)
Headmaster (1958)
Shilpi (1956)
The Citizen (1952)
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Known ForCrew
GenderMale
Birthday1915-05-09
Deathday2017-08-23 (102 years old)
Birth PlaceDhaka, Bangladesh
CitizenshipsDominion of India, British Raj, India
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