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. – 17 August 2010; Kolkata) was a

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in the Bengali film industry located in

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(previously Calcutta),

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. He is especially remembered for his association with the acclaimed film director

Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray (; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and music composer. One of the greatest auteurs o ...

, whose films were all edited by Datta.

Filmography

* '' Debatra'' (1955) * ''

Pather Panchali ''Pather Panchali'' (; ) is a 1955 Indian Bengali (language), Bengali-language Drama (film and television), drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray and produced by the Government of West Bengal. It is an adaptation of Bibhutibhushan Ba ...

'' (1955) * '' Aparajito'' (1956) * ''Asha'' (1956) * '' Andhare Alo'' (1957) * '' Parash Pathar'' (1958) * '' Jalsaghar'' (1958) * '' Apur Sansar'' (1959) * ''

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'' (1960) * '' Teen Kanya'' (1961) * ''

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

'' (1961) * '' Kanchenjungha'' (1962) * ''

Abhijan Abhijan may refer to: * Abhijan (1962 film), a Bengali film directed by Satyajit Ray * Abhijan (1984 film), a Bangladeshi film directed by Abdur Razzak * Abhijaan (2022 film) ''Abhijaan'' () is a 2022 Indian Bengali biographical film directed ...

'' (1962) * ''

Mahanagar ''Mahanagar'' () is a 1963 Indian Bengali-language drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray. Starring Madhabi Mukherjee in the leading role and based on the short story ''Abataranika'' by Narendranath Mitra, it tells the story of a housew ...

'' (1963) * '' Charulata'' (1964) * '' Mahapurush'' (1965) * '' Kapurush'' (1965) * '' Nayak'' (1966) * '' Chiriyakhana'' (1967) * '' Balika Badhu'' (1967) * ''

Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne ''Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne'' ( Bengali: গুপী গাইন বাঘা বাইন ''Gupi Gain Bagha Bain'') is a 1969 Indian fantasy adventure comedy film written and directed by Satyajit Ray and based on a story by his grandfather Up ...

'' (1968) * '' Charan Kavi Mukundadas'' (1968) * ''

Aranyer Din Ratri ''Aranyer Din Ratri'' (; English: Days and Nights in the Forest) is an Indian Bengali adventure drama film released in 1970, written and directed by Satyajit Ray. It is based upon the Bengali novel of the same name by Sunil Gangopadhyay. It em ...

'' (1970) * ''

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'' (1971) * '' Seemabaddha'' (1971) * ''

The Inner Eye ''The Inner Eye'' is a 1972 short documentary film made by Satyajit Ray on Benode Behari Mukherjee, a blind artist and a teacher from Visva-Bharati University, a university founded by Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan. The twenty minutes docu ...

'' (1972) * ''

Pratidwandi ''Pratidwandi'' ( en, The Adversary, Siddharta and the City, italic=yes) is a 1970 Indian Bengali drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray based on the novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay. It is the first part of the Calcutta Trilogy. ''Pratid ...

'' (1972) * '' Ashani Sanket'' (1973) * '' Sonar Kella'' (1974) * '' Jana Aranya'' (1976) * ''

Shatranj Ke Khilari ''Shatranj Ke Khilari'', also subtitled and later internationally released with the translated title ''The Chess Players'', is a 1977 Indian film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same nam ...

'' (1977) * '' Heerak Rajar Deshe'' (1980) * ''

Sadgati ''Sadgati'' () is a 1981 Hindi television film directed by Satyajit Ray, based on a short story of same name by Munshi Premchand. Ray called this drama of a poor Dalit "a deeply angry film ..not the anger of an exploding bomb but of a bow stretc ...

'' (1981) (TV) * ''

Pikoo ''Pikoo'' is a 1980 Bengali short film directed by Satyajit Ray for a French television channel, France 3. The film is based on a short story named ''Pikoor Diary'' (''Pikoo's Diary''), written by Ray for one of his books, ''Pikoor Diary O Onyan ...

'' (1981) (TV) * ''Phatik Chand'' (1983) * ''

Ghare Baire ''The Home and the World'' (in the original Bengali, ঘরে বাইরে ''Ghôre Baire'' or ''Ghare Baire'', lit. "At home and outside") is a 1916 novel by Rabindranath Tagore. The book illustrates the battle Tagore had with himself, be ...

'' (1984) * '' Ganashatru'' (1989) * ''

Shakha Proshakha ''Shakha Proshakha'' ( en, Branches of the Tree, italic=yes) is a 1990 film directed by Satyajit Ray. It deals with four generations of a well-to-do Bengali family, with a focus on the third generation. This film displays an extraordinary use ...

'' (1990) * ''

Goopy Bagha Phire Elo ''Goopy Bagha Phirey Elo'' () is a 1992 Indian Bengali language comedy film directed by Sandip Ray and written by Satyajit Ray. A sequel to the 1980 film '' Hirak Rajar Deshe'' and the third installment of '' Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne series'', th ...

'' (1991) * '' Agantuk'' (1991) * '' Uttoran'' (1994) * ''

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'' (1995)

Sound Department

* '' Chiriyakhana'' (1967) (sound editor) * '' Balika Badhu'' (1967) (English title: ''The Young Wife'') (sound editor)

Notes

References

External links

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Regular cast and crew of Satyajit Ray films
1920s births 2010 deaths Film directors from Kolkata Bengali film editors 20th-century Indian film directors Film editors from West Bengal {{India-film-bio-stub