Veteran filmmaker Tarun Majumdar passes away at 91

Veteran filmmaker Tarun Majumdar passed away in Kolkata on Monday. He was 91 and was going through procedure at the Point out-operate SSKM healthcare facility since June 14. The filmmaker was place on ventilator assist on Sunday when his wellbeing deteriorated and he breathed his final at 11.17 am on Monday.

Majumdar was between the last of the excellent movie administrators from West Bengal who created a area of interest of their have, beyond the trinity of cinema legends these as Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, and Ritwik Ghatak.

The filmmaker, who was regarded for his delicate portrayal of center-course lifestyle and the human situation, is a 4-time National Award winner and a Padma Shri conferree. Majumdar was born on January 8, 1931, in Bogra (now in Bangladesh). His father, Birendranath Majumdar, was a liberty fighter.

Majumdar directed his very first film Chawa Pawa (1959), starring Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen, when he was only 27 a long time previous. He then joined the directorial group Yatrik, which also included Sachin Mukherji and Dilip Mukherji. In 1962, the staff arrived out with Kancher Swarga, which gained the National Award for the greatest aspect film in Bengali.

Some of Majumdar’s effectively-identified movies are Balika Badhu (1967), Kuheli (1971), Shriman Prithviraj (1973), Fuleswari (1974), Dadar Kirti (1980), Bhalobasa Bhalobasa (1985), and Apan Amar Apan (1990). He remade two of his strike films in Hindi — Balika Badhu (1976) and Rahgir (1969, adapted from his 1963 movie Palatak). Between his critically acclaimed videos are Nimantran (1971), Sansar Simante (1975) and Ganadevata (1978).

Majumdar will also be remembered for the aesthetic picturisation of tunes in his movies, specially the use of Rabindra Sangeet. The director is also regarded for providing alternatives to the then contemporary faces in the Bengali movie field, these types of as Moushumi Chatterjee, Mahua Roychoudhury, Ayan Banerjee, and Tapas Paul.

Majumdar married actor Sandhya Roy, who acted in quite a few of his movies, however, the pair separated later. His previous film, a docu-function titled Adhikaar, was unveiled in 2018. The movie spoke about the struggles of the men and women doing the job in the unorganised sector. 

Filmmaker Gautam Ghosh, while recalling his many years-extended association with Majumdar, called him a guardian who gave a large amount of films to the educated center-course to cherish. Ghosh mentioned that Majumdar was quite meticulous in his work and that he would not start taking pictures until all the props of the scene ended up in purchase.

Main Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, condoled the demise of the filmmaker and mentioned that Majumdar was a flexible filmmaker who shined as a fantastic illustration for filmmakers who aspire to make social movies.

In the meantime, Majumdar’s family associates have claimed that he did not want his body to be taken to Randindra Sadan or Nandan, Kolkata’s cultural elaborate, and that he didn’t want wreaths to be placed on his human body. His mortal stays, in its place, will be donated to a Condition-run health care school for reserach.