Amiya Chakravarty (30 November 1912 – 6 March 1957) was an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer, who was leading film director in

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of the 1940s and 1950s. He is noted for films like '' Daag'' (1952), '' Patita'' (1953), and '' Seema'' (1955) for which he won the 4th Filmfare Award for Best Story. Chakravarty is also credited along with Devika Rani for discovering

Dilip Kumar Dilip Kumar (born Muhammad Yusuf Khan; 11 December 1922 – 7 July 2021) was an Indian actor and film producer, who worked in Hindi cinema. Credited with pioneering method acting in cinema, he dominated Hindi cinema from the 1950s throughout t ...

, whom he gave his first break in 1944 film

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. Chakravarty also produced and directed, for Mars & Movies Productions which he had launched after leaving

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, the film Daag in 1952 for which

won his first ever Filmfare Award for Best Actor. He was married to Saraswati Shastri a.k.a. Kamala, younger sister of

Lakshmi Shankar Lakshmi Shankar (née Sastri, 16 June 1926 – 30 December 2013) was an Indian singer and a noted Hindustani classical music, Hindustani classical. Born into a south Indian Hindu family, she became an outstanding Hindustani music, Hindustani voc ...

(née Shastri) wife of Rajendra Shankar, elder brother of Sitar maestro,

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