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Anjana Bhowmik
Anjana Bhowmik (30 December 1944 – 17 February 2024) was an Indian actress of Bengali cinema from the 1960s until the 1980s. Personal life Bhowmik was born in Cooch Behar on 30 December 1944. Her real name was Arati Bhowmik and nickname Babli. Her father was Bibhuti Bhusan Bhowmik. She spent her school days in Cooch Behar. Bhowmik passed the Higher Secondary Exam of the West Bengal Board from Suniti Academy of Cooch Behar in 1961. After that she studied in Sarojini Naidu College for Women, under the University of Calcutta. Anjana married Navy Officer Anil Sharma and settled in Mumbai. Her daughters are Nilanjana Sharma and Chandana Sharma, who are also actresses. The older one, Nilanjana Sharma is married to Bengali Actor Jisshu Sengupta. Bhowmick died on 17 February 2024, at the age of 79. Career Bhowmick made her film debut at the age of 20 in the 1964 film ''Anustup Chanda'' directed by Pijush Bose. Before releasing the film she changed her name to Anjana from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooch Behar State
Cooch Behar, also known as Koch Bihar, was a princely state in India during the British Raj. The state was placed under the Bengal States Agency, part of the Eastern States Agency of the Bengal Presidency. It was located south of the Himalayas, Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, in present-day West Bengal. Cooch Behar State was formed when the Kamata Kingdom under the Koch dynasty split following the death of Nara Narayan in 1586. The eastern portion, Koch Hajo, was soon absorbed by Ahom kingdom, Ahom. The western portion, Koch Bihar, formed a separate unit that came under direct challenge by the Mughal Empire. After weathering the Mughal threat, a new foe emerged in the form of an expansionist Bhutanese kingdom. After a series of wars with the Bhutanese and Tibetan people, Tibetans, the Northern threat was pushed back but not before a Bhutanese regent was installed in the royal court. The Koch Bihar court decided to invite British intervention. This came in the form of military ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kokhono Megh
''Kokhono Megh'' is a 1968 Bengali mystery romance movie directed by Agradoot. It stars Uttam Kumar and Anjana Bhowmik in lead roles. The movie was inspired by the 1963 American mystery comedy '' Charade''. Plot While on vacation at Darjeeling, art teacher Seema Rai met a charming stranger named Narayan Chowdhury. This pair builds friendship. When she returned home, she found that her apartment had been vandalized and was told by the police that her estranged uncle Suresh had been killed. Police informs her that Suresh was involved with a smuggling racket. She lets them know that they knew very little about this uncle as her father and Suresh drifted away when she was a child. He started to reach out only after her father died a few years back. Police asks her to keep all of Suresh's belongings as the next if kin but she takes only a framed picture of Suresh and his brother, i.e. her father. Narayan returns to the city and Seema finds solace in his company. They start to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Calcutta Alumni
A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The first universities in Europe were established by Catholic monks. The University of Bologna (), Italy, which was founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *being a high degree-awarding institute. *using the word (which was coined at its foundation). *having independence from the ecclesiastic schools and issuing secular as well as non-secular degrees (with teaching conducted by both clergy and non-clergy): grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law and notarial law.Hunt Janin: "The university in medieval life, 1179–1499", McFarland, 2008, , p. 55f.de Ridder-Symoens, Hilde''A History of the University in Europe: Volume 1, Universities in the Midd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actresses In Bengali Cinema
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of acting pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role", which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 Births
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa. ** Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat. * January 8 – WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces. * January 11 ** United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and economic security, in his State of the Union address. ** The Nazi German administration expands Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp into the larger standalone ''Konzentrationslager Plaszow bei Krakau'' in occupied Poland. * January 12 – WWII: Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle begin a 2-day conference in Marrakech. * Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pratham Basanta
Pratham is one of the largest non-governmental organisations in India. It was co-founded by Madhav Chavan and Farida Lambay. It works towards the provision of quality education to the underprivileged children in India. Established in Mumbai in 1995 to provide pre-school education to children in slums, Pratham today has interventions spread across 23 states and union territories of India and has supporting chapters in the United States, UK, GermanySweden anAustralia Pratham's founder and Ex-CEO, Madhav Chavan, was the 2011 recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In addition, Pratham received the 2013 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Development Cooperation, as a result of successfully catering to the learning needs of tens of millions of disadvantaged children for over twenty years. In doing so, it has designed and implemented new methods that accelerate reading acquisition, using a grassroots approach in which pupils are grouped by actual l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dibratrir Kabya
''Dibaratrir Kabya'' ( Bangla: দিবারাত্রির কাব্য ''Dibārātrir kābbo'') is a 1970 Bengali black-and-white film starring Madhabi Mukherjee, Anjana Bhowmik and Basant Choudhury in the lead roles. The film was directed by Bimal Bhowmik and Narayan Chakraborty. The film won two National Film Awards at the 17th National Film Awards. It was based on the novel of the same name by Manik Bandyopadhyay. Cast * Madhabi Mukherjee * Anjana Bhowmick * Basant Choudhury * Anubha Gupta * Kanu Banerjee Music * "Bhora Thaak Milone Utsober Gaan" - Sumitra Sen (composer: Rabindranath Tagore) Awards * National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film. * National Film Award for Best Actress The National Film Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role is an honour presented annually at the National Film Awards of India since 1968 to an actress for the best performance in a leading role within the Cinema of India, Indian film industry. ... – Madhabi Mukher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuk Sari
A bazaar or souk is a marketplace consisting of multiple small stalls or shops, especially in the Middle East, the Balkans, Central Asia, North Africa and South Asia. They are traditionally located in vaulted or covered streets that have doors on each end and served as a city's central marketplace. The term ''bazaar'' originates from Persian, where it referred to a town's public market district. The term bazaar is sometimes also used to refer collectively to the merchants, bankers and craftsmen who work in that area. The term ''souk'' comes from Arabic and refers to marketplaces in the Middle East and North Africa. Although the lack of archaeological evidence has limited detailed studies of the evolution of bazaars, the earliest evidence for the existence of bazaars or souks dates to around 3000 BCE. Cities in the ancient Middle East appear to have contained commercial districts. Later, in the historic Islamic world, bazaars typically shared in common certain institutions, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thana Theke Aschi (1965 Film)
''Thana Theke Aschhi'' (English: ''Coming From Police Station'') is a 1965 Indian Bengali-language psychological thriller film co-written and directed by Hiren Nag. Produced by Hemen Mitra, Tapas Saha and Ratan Chakraborty under the banner of United Cine Producers, it was based on a play of the same name by Ajit Gangopadhyay, which itself was an adaptation of the English play '' An Inspector Calls'' (1945) by J. B. Priestley. The film stars Uttam Kumar, Madhabi Mukherjee and Anjana Bhowmick in the lead, while Kamal Mitra, Chhaya Debi, Dilip Mukherjee, Prashanta Kumar and Jahor Roy play another pivotal roles. It revolves around a suicide mystery of a stranger woman, to look into which Tinkari Halder, an inspector from Padmapukur police station, makes his arrival at the house of Chandra Madhab Sen, an eminent industrialist and later it gets revealed that every members of Sen's family is however connected to the victim's commitment of the suicide, including Sen himself. ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soumitra Chattopadhyay
Soumitra Chatterjee (also spelt as Chattopadhyay; ; 19 January 193515 November 2020) was an Indian film actor, play-director, playwright, writer, thespian and poet. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema. He is best known for his collaborations with director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films. Starting with his debut film, '' Apur Sansar'' (The World of Apu, 1959), the third part of ''The Apu Trilogy'', as adult Apu, he went on to work in several films with Ray, including '' Abhijan'' (The Expedition, 1962), '' Charulata'' (1964), '' Kapurush'' (1965), '' Aranyer Din Ratri'' (Days and Nights in the Forest, 1969), '' Ashani Sanket'' (Distant Thunder, 1973), '' Sonar Kella'' (The Fortress of Gold, 1974) and '' Joi Baba Felunath'' (The Elephant God, 1978) as Feluda, '' Hirak Rajar Deshe'' (1980), '' Ghare Baire'' (The Home and The World, 1984), Shakha Proshakha (1990) and '' Ganashatru'' (Enemy of the Peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
