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Debraj Ray (actor)
Debraj Roy (9 December 1954 – 17 October 2024) was an Indian actor who is known for his work in Bengali language, Bengali Doordarshan and Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. He made his big screen debut with Satyajit Ray's (1970) and grabbed wider attention for his memorable role in Mrinal Sen's ''Calcutta 71'' (1971). Death Debraj Roy died from multiple organ failure after suffering from serious illnesses for several months, at a private hospital in Kolkata, on 17 October 2024. He was 69. Filmography * ''Bhoot Adbhoot'' (2014) * ''Birodhi'' (2013) * ''Chaap – The Pressure'' (2013) * ''Ekti Muhurter Jonyo'' (2013) * ''Panga Nibi Na Shala'' (2013) * ''Kaal Madhumaas'' (2013) * ''Honeymoon'' (2013) * (2011) * ''Dujone Milbo Abaar'' (2011) * ''Kapurush Mahapurush'' (2011) * ''Ashay Bhalobasay'' (2011) * ''Run'' (2011) * ''Preyashi'' (2010) * ''Love Circus'' (2010) * ''Smriti Katha Bole'' (2010) * ''Jodi Kagoje Lekho Naam'' (2009) * ''Raktanjali'' (2009) * ''Moner Ajante' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calcutta
Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary Financial centre, financial and Commercial area, commercial centre of Eastern India, eastern and Northeast India, northeastern India. Kolkata is the list of cities in India by population, seventh most populous city in India with an estimated city proper population of 4.5 million (0.45 crore) while its metropolitan region Kolkata Metropolitan Area is the List of million-plus agglomerations in India, third most populous metropolitan region of India with a metro population of over 15 million (1.5 crore). Kolkata is regarded by many sources as the cultural capital of India and a historically and culturally significant city in the historic Bengal, region of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shibaji
''Shibaji'' is a Bengali language action thriller film directed by Babu Ray. Plot The story of this film revolves around the main character Shivaji ( Prosenjit) who is a goon. He was hired by the villain Bishal Sarkar to kill the judge Prasanta Mullick (Ranjit Mallick) for refusing a bribe and announcing the death sentence for his youngest brother, Vicky Sarkar. Shivaji's wife Durga (Swastika Mukherjee) meanwhile tries to commit suicide after being insulted and humiliated again and again by people. Shivaji ultimately saves her life and leaves all criminal activities. Prasanta Mullick and his wife (Mousumi Saha) help him to start a fast-food centre. But one day Bishal Sarkar's brother along with goons attack the restaurant and kill a person. Inspector Satyaprakash (Tapas Paul) arrests innocent Shivaji and he is imprisoned. Prasanta Mullick resigns from his post as judge, and tries to prove Shivaji's innocence. In this time the three brothers of Bishal Sarkar attack Shivaji's house, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Hindus
Hinduism is the largest and most practised religion in India. About 80% of the demographics of India, country's population is Hindus, Hindu. India contains 94% of the global Hindu population. The vast majority of Indian Hindus belong to Vaishnavism, Vaishnavite, Shaivism, Shaivite, and Shaktism, Shakta Hindu denominations, denominations. India is one of the three countries in the world (Hinduism in Nepal, Nepal (81%) and Hinduism in Mauritius, Mauritius (48%) being the other two) where Hinduism is the dominant religion. History of Hinduism The Vedic period, Vedic culture developed in India in and . After this period, the Historical Vedic religion, Vedic religion merged with local traditions and the renouncer traditions, resulting in Hindu synthesis, the emergence of Hinduism, which has had a profound impact on India's History of India, history, Culture of India, culture and Indian philosophy, philosophy. The name ''India'' itself is derived from Sanskrit ''Sindhu'', the his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Male Actors In Bengali Cinema
Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilisation. A male organism cannot reproduce sexually without access to at least one ovum from a female, but some organisms can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Most male mammals, including male humans, have a Y chromosome, which codes for the production of larger amounts of testosterone to develop male reproductive organs. In humans, the word ''male'' can also be used to refer to gender, in the social sense of gender role or gender identity. Overview The existence of separate sexes has evolved independently at different times and in different lineages, an example of convergent evolution. The repeated pattern is sexual reproduction in isogamous species with two or more mating types with gametes of identical form and behavior (but different at the molecular level) to anisogamous species with game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Male Film Actors
Indian or Indians may refer to: Associated with India * of or related to India ** Indian people ** Indian diaspora ** Languages of India ** Indian English, a dialect of the English language ** Indian cuisine Associated with indigenous peoples of the Americas * Indigenous peoples of the Americas ** First Nations in Canada ** Native Americans in the United States ** Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean ** Indigenous languages of the Americas Places * Indian, West Virginia, U.S. * The Indians, an archipelago of islets in the British Virgin Islands Arts and entertainment Film * ''Indian'' (film series), a Tamil-language film series ** ''Indian'' (1996 film) * ''Indian'' (2001 film), a Hindi-language film Music * Indians (musician), Danish singer Søren Løkke Juul * "The Indian", an unreleased song by Basshunter * "Indian" (song), by Sturm und Drang, 2007 * "Indians" (song), by Anthrax, 1987 * Indians, a song by Gojira from the 2003 album '' The Link'' Other use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengali Hindus
Bengali Hindus () are adherents of Hinduism who ethnically, linguistically and genealogically identify as Bengalis. They make up the majority in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Assam's Barak Valley region and make up the largest minority in Bangladesh. Comprising about one-third of the global Bengali population, they are the largest ethnic group among Hindus. Bengali Hindus speak Bengali, which belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family and adhere to Shaktism (majority, the Kalikula tradition) or Vaishnavism (minority, Gaudiya Vaishnavism and Vaishnava-Sahajiya) of their native religion Hinduism with some regional deities. There are significant numbers of Bengali-speaking Hindus in different Indian states. Around the 8th century, the Bengali language branched off from Magadhi Prakrit, a derivative of Sanskrit that was prevalent in the eastern region of the Indian Subcontinent at that time. During the Sena period (11th – 12t ... [...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] |
1954 Births
Events January * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – 1954 Blons avalanches, Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau rebellion, Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 member radio stations. * January 21 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the , is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raja
Raja (; from , IAST ') is a noble or royal Sanskrit title historically used by some Indian subcontinent, Indian rulers and monarchs and highest-ranking nobles. The title was historically used in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The title has a long history in South Asia and History of Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia, being attested from the ''Rigveda'', where a ' is a Rigvedic tribes, ruler, see for example the Battle of the Ten Kings, ', the "Battle of Ten Kings". The title has equivalent cognates in other Indo-European languages, notably the Latin Rex (title), Rex and the Celtic languages, Celtic Rix. Raja-ruled Indian states While most of the British Raj, Indian salute states (those granted a Salute#Heavy arms: gun salutes, gun salute by the The Crown, British Crown) were ruled by a Maharaja (or variation; some promoted from an earlier Raja- or equivalent style), even exclusively from 13 guns up, a number had Rajas: ; Hereditary salutes of 11-guns : * the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ganadevata (film)
''Ganadevata''() () is a 1978 Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali drama film directed by Tarun Majumdar, based on a novel of the Ganadevata (novel), same name by Tarashankar Bandopadhyay. The film stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Ajitesh Bandopadhyay, Ajitesh Bannerjee, Samit Bhanja, Rabi Ghosh and Anup Kumar (actor), Anup Kumar in lead roles. The epic novel is set in the 1920s during the British Raj, about the breakdown of socio-economic structures, impact of industrialization and non-cooperation movement in rural Bengal. It also won the writer Bandopadhyay, the 1967Jnanpith Award. At the 26th National Film Awards (1978), it won the award for National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment, Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment and National Film Award for Best Child Artist, Best Child Artist Award for Kanchan De Biswas. Cast * Soumitra Chatterjee as Debu Pandit * Sandhya Roy as Durga * Tapen Chatterjee as Tara Napit * Ajitesh Bandopadhyay as Chhir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karoti
Karoti is a village in Sirohi District of Rajasthan state in India. It is situated southwest of the Sirohi Sirohi is a town, located in Sirohi district in southern Rajasthan state in western India. It is the administrative headquarters of Sirohi District and was formerly the capital of the princely state of Sirohi ruled by Deora Chauhan Rajput ... headquarters of the district in Reodar tehsil. Lunol village is to the north and Dolpura is to the south. Mandar is the main village connecting to Gujarat. References Villages in Sirohi district {{Jodhpurdivision-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Joy
''City of Joy'' () is a 1985 novel by Dominique Lapierre. It was adapted as City of Joy (1992 film), a film by Roland Joffé in 1992. Calcutta is nicknamed "the City of Joy" after this novel, although the slum was based on an area in its twin city of Howrah. Plot The story revolves around the trials and tribulations of a young Polish priest, Father Stephan Kovalski (a French priest named Paul Lambert in the original French version), the hardships endured by a pulled rickshaw, rickshaw puller, Hasari Pal in Calcutta (Kolkata), India, and in the second half of the book, also the experiences of a young American doctor, Max Loeb. Father Stephan joins a religious order whose vows put them in the most hellish places on earth. He chooses not only to serve the poorest of the poor in Calcutta but also to live with them; starve with them; and, if God wills it, die with them. In the journey of Kovalski's acceptance as the Big Brother for the slum dwellers, he encounters moments of everyda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
