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Chiranjit Chakraborty
Deepak Chakraborty (born 2 November 1950), known professionally as Chiranjeet Chakraborty, is an Indian actor and director in the Bengali film industry located in Kolkata, West Bengal. He is the son of renowned cartoonist Shaila Chakraborty. He is also a politician and a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Government of West Bengal. He was born on 2 November 1955 in Kolkata. He has been conferred upon the prestigious ''Mahanayak Samman'' by the Govt. of West Bengal in 2012. He made his debut with the 1981 film ''Sonay Sohaga''. It was a box office failure. He gained popularity after starring in Anjan Choudhury's 1984 film ''Shotru''. His first hit in a lead role was the 1985 film ''Antarale''. After that, he had a series of hits in his career like '' Pratikar'', ''Paapi'', ''Paap Punyo'', ''Beder Meye Josna'', ''Amarkantak'', ''Jibon Joubon'', ''Bhoy'', ''Shaitan'', ''Pennam Kolkata'', ''Beads'', ''Tridhara'', ''Jiban Yoddha'', ''Phiriye Dao'', ''Agnitrishna'', ''Shakti'' ...
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West Bengal Legislative Assembly
The West Bengal Legislative Assembly (ISO 15919, ISO: ''Paścimabaṅga Vidhānasabhā'') is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of West Bengal, located in eastern India. It consists of 294 members directly elected from single-seat constituencies through the first-past-the-post voting, FPTP voting system. The Assembly meets at Vidhan Sabha Bhavan in Kolkata, the capital of the state. The presiding officer of the Assembly is the Speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, Speaker, currently Biman Banerjee. Members of the Assembly are directly elected by the people of West Bengal through elections held every five years, unless the Assembly is dissolved earlier. The current Assembly was elected in April–May 2021, and the next election is scheduled for 2026. The Assembly plays a key role in law-making for the state, handling crucial matters such as state budgets, development policies, and local governance. It has the authority to legislate on issues specified und ...
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Bariwali
''Bariwali'' (''LandLady'') is a West Bengal film released in 2000 directed by Rituparno Ghosh. The film features Kirron Kher, Roopa Ganguly, and Chiranjeet Chakraborty. Synopsis The film is a quiet drama about a lonely, sad, unfortunate middle-aged woman. Banalata ( Kiron Kher) has lived a solitary existence since her husband-to-be died the night before their wedding from a snake bite. Never having quite gotten over the tragedy, she rarely ventures out and is clearly very lonely. This changes when she agrees to allow a film production unit to shoot in a wing in her sprawling estate. Suddenly her house is filled with movie stars and glamorous people, including the beautiful actress Sudeshna (Roopa Ganguly) and charming director Deepankar (Chiranjeet Chakraborty). Though she knows that not only is Deepankar married but that his former lover Sudeshna still holds a torch for him, the lonely woman finds herself drawn to the director. He is exactly the sort of worldly character who ...
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Amar Kantak (film)
''Amarkantak'' is a 1986 Bengali drama film directed by Sukhen Das and produced by Mala Gupta. It stars Chiranjeet, Moon Moon Sen, along with Sukhen Das, Sumitra Mukherjee, Deepankar Dey in another supporting roles. The film was loosely based on the novel ''Sonar Kathi, Rupar Kathi'' of Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay. It was made under the banner of Parna Chitram. This movie received BFJA award in 1987. Plot Writer Debesh goes from place to place searching for his younger brother Binoy, who has been missing for a long time. Debesh goes to an Ashram in Amarkantak and meets a lady monk named ''Bahinji''. He realises that Bahinji is hiding something. Later she narrates her story which reveals the missing history of Binoy. Cast * Chiranjeet as Binoy "Binu" * Moon Moon Sen as Urmila "Urmi" / Bahin * Sukhen Das as Debesh "Debu" * Sumitra Mukherjee as Rani Ahalya * Deepankar Dey as Thakur Janaklal * Shakuntala Barua as Courtesan Songs * "Chitatei Sob Shesh" - Kishore Kumar * "Tumi Maa ...
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Harishchandra Shaibya
''Harishchandra Shaibya'' is a Bengali religious drama film directed by Ardhendu Chatterjee based on Hindu mythological story of legendary King Harishchandra. This film was released on 30 August 1985 under the banner of B. B. M. Group Of Production. Plot This film tells the story of the life of King ''Harishchandra'' who gave away his kingdom, sold his family and agreed to be a slave to fulfill the promise and truthfulness. Cast * Biswajit Chatterjee as Harishchandra * Sandhya Roy as Shaibya * Chiranjit * Abhi Bhattacharya as Sage Viswamitra * Utpal Dutt as Dharmaraj * Alka Nupur as Menaka * Anoop Kumar as Malavya * Tapas Paul (guest appearance) * Shekhar Chatterjee * Satya Bandopadhyay as Sage Vasistha * Sumitra Mukhopadhyay Soundtrack Music by Ravindra Jain. Lyrics by Bibhuti Mukhopadhyay. Songs sung by Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhonsle, Aarti Mukherjee, Hemant Mukherjee, Manna De, Hemlata, Yesudas. 1 song which Ravindra Jain sang was excluded from the film. Drama Dri ...
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Kencho Khunrte Keute
''Kencho Khunrte Keute'' ( cobra to dig earthworms) is a 1995 Indian Bengali-language action-comedy film written, directed and produced by Chiranjeet, under the banner of Dipabali Chitram. A modern day adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic play, ''The Taming of the Shrew,'' it stars Chiranjeet with Indrani Dutta in the lead roles, while Utpal Dutta, Basanti Chatterjee, Satya Bandyopadhyay, Tanima Majumder and Sumit Ganguly played supporting roles. The film's music was composed by Anupam Dutta with lyrics penned by Laxmikanta Roy. The action and dance sequences were also choreographed by Chiranjeet himself. Initially, Chiranjeet adapted ''Kencho Khunrte Keute'' from the Shakespearean play to perform it as a stage drama. In that drama, Chiranjeet, Utpal Dutta and Sumit Ganguly performed the roles of ''Ananda'', ''Mr. Roychowdhury'' and ''Nepal'' respectively. Later he planned to make a film on it with Dutta and Ganguly reprising their roles, including him. Made on a bu ...
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Phiriye Dao
''Phiriye Dao'' is a Bengali language action drama film directed by Chiranjeet Chakraborty. This film was released in 1994 under the banner of Tirupati films. Music of the film was composed by Bappi Lahiri. Plot Three dacoits attack a police van and loot bank money. A photographer snaps all their faces. While dacoits chase him, the photographer hides in Mr. Choudhury's house. Those daciots kill Mr. Choudhury and his invalid daughter mercilessly in front of Mrs.Chowdhuri. Their little son Arjun saves himself hiding in the garden. Due to this incident his mother gets a paralytic attack. Child Arjun takes shelter in the hut of a nearby hill of a compassionate Chinese shopkeeper. He learns marshal art from him and decides to take revenge on the killers. He meets Antara, an actress and comes to Kolkata to search for the murderers. Cast * Chiranjit as Arjun * Rakhee Gulzar as Mrs. Choudhury, Arjun's mother * Satabdi Roy as Antara * Abhishek Chatterjee as Abhi * Biplab Chatterjee as ...
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Partha Chatterjee (politician)
Partha Chatterjee (born 6 October 1952) is an Indian politician. He earlier served as the Minister of Commerce and Industries and formerly served as the Education Minister of Government of West Bengal. He represented the Trinamool Congress. He also held the political office of Secretary General of the TMC. In 2022, he was suspended indefinitely from the party following his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate. Early life Chatterjee was born in Calcutta. He attended Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur though some former students of the Mission claimed that he was only there for a year, after which he was given a transfer certificate. He studied economics from Asutosh College and completed his MBA from IISWBM. Political career Chatterjee worked as an HR professional with Andrew Yule. He was elected as an MLA from Behala Paschim in 2001, and subsequently re-elected from the same constituency in 2006. In 2011 he won by a margin of 59,021 votes. He was Leader of the ...
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Barasat Assembly Constituency
Barasat Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Overview As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 119 Barasat Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Barasat municipality and Chhota Jagulia gram panchayat of Barasat I community development block, Barasat Assembly constituency is part of No. 17 Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency). Members of the Legislative Assembly Election results 2021 2016 2011 In the 2011 election, Chiranjeet of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Sanjib Chatterjee of Forward Bloc. .# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. 1977-2006 In the 2006 state assembly elections, Dr. Bithika Mondal of Forward Bloc won the Barasat assembly seat defeating her nearest rival Ashoke Mukherjee of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winner ...
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2011 West Bengal State Assembly Election
Assembly election was held in Indian state of West Bengal in 2011 to elect the members of West Bengal Legislative Assembly as the term of the incumbent government was about to expire naturally. The election was held in six phases between 18 April and 10 May 2011 for all the 294 seats of the Assembly. In a very high voltage election, a voter turnout of over 84% was recorded, the highest ever in the history of Bengal so far. The Trinamool Congress led United Progressive Alliance won an absolute majority of seats in the state in a historic win marking the end of 34-year rule of Left Front, the longest-serving democratically elected communist government in the world, a fact that was noted by international media. Notably, the incumbent Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee lost even his Jadavpur seat to Trinamool's Manish Gupta, which was considered to be an electoral bastion of the CPI(M). Bhattacharjee became the 2nd Chief minister of the state to lose from his own seat, aft ...
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Desh (magazine)
''Desh'' () is a Bengali magazine featuring short stories, novels, commentary, criticism, poetry, essays, and book reviews. Launched on November 24, 1933, first as a weekly and later as a biweekly, it is one of India's oldest magazines. Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, the magazine published works of prominent Bengali writers including Rabindranath Tagore, Jibanananda Das, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Satyajit Ray, Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, and Joy Goswami. A 2008 study by Dr. Chaitali Dutta in the Kolkata metropolitan area found that ''Desh'' was more popular among female readers, while males favored '' Saptahik Bartaman''. History The first editor of ''Desh'' was Satyendranath Majumdar (1891–1954), followed by Bankimchandra Sen. Sagarmoy Ghosh joined the magazine in 1939 and became its editor in 1976. Under his leadership, ''Desh'' emerged as India’s foremost literary magazine in a regional language. His first major achievement was securing a poem and short story—''S ...
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Jadavpur University
Jadavpur University ( abbr. JU) is a public state funded research university with its main campus located at Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was established on 25 July in 1906 as ''Bengal Technical Institute'' and was converted into Jadavpur University on 24 December in 1955. As of 2024 NIRF rankings, Jadavpur University has been ranked 9th among universities, 12th among engineering institutes, and 17th overall in India. Also Nature Index ranked Jadavpur University in 1st among universities in India and 22th overall in India in terms of research output (2023-2024). The university has been recognized by UGC as an institute with "Potential for Excellence" and accredited an "A+" grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). History On 25 July 1906, Bengal Technical Institute was founded by Society for the Promotion of Technical Education by at 92, Upper Circular Road. On 7 July 1910, the Society for the Promotion of Technical Education in Bengal ...
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Architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructing buildings or other Structure#Load-bearing, structures. The term comes ; ; . Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as work of art, works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements. The practice, which began in the Prehistory, prehistoric era, has been used as a way of expressing culture by civilizations on all seven continents. For this reason, architecture is considered to be a form of art. Texts on architecture have been written since ancient times. The earliest surviving text on architectural theory, architectural theories is the 1st century AD treatise by the Roman architect Vitruvius, according to whom a good bui ...
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