Naresh Mitra (18 May 1888 – 1968) was a
Bengali
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actor, director and screenwriter.
Career
Naresh Mitra was born in 1888 in
Agartala
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,
Tripura
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,
British India
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. He studied law from the
University of Calcutta
The University of Calcutta, informally known as Calcutta University (), is a Public university, public State university (India), state university located in Kolkata, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal, India. It has 151 affiliated undergraduate c ...
. He started his acting career in 1922 in
Minerva Theatre. In 1923, Mitra joined
Star Theatre in
Kolkata
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and starred in several plays mostly in the role of anti hero. He worked and acted in number of films of Taj Mahal company, East India Film and Kali Films.
Mitra directed ''
Devdas'' in silent version produced by Eastern Film Syndicate in 1928. This is the first film adaptation of
Devdas, the novel of
Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay. He directed few films starring
Uttam Kumar
Uttam Kumar (born Arun Kumar Chattopadhyay; 3 September 1926 – 24 July 1980), widely known as Mahanayak (), was an Indian film actor, producer, director, screenwriter, composer, and playback singer who predominantly worked in Bengali cinema ...
such as ''
Bou Thakuranir Haat'', ''
Annapurnar Mandir''.
Mitra was also associated with the
Bengali
Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to:
*something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia
* Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region
* Bengali language, the language they speak
** Bengali alphabet, the w ...
folk Jatra.
Direction
*
''Andhare Alo''
*
Chandranath
*
''Devdas''
* ''
Gora''
* ''
Kankal''
* ''
Bou Thakuranir Haat''
* ''
Annapurnar Mandir''
* ''Kalindi''
References
External links
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1888 births
1968 deaths
Bengali film directors
Film directors from Kolkata
Tripuri people
University of Calcutta alumni
Indian male screenwriters
Film directors from West Bengal
Male actors in Bengali cinema
Indian male stage actors
Bengali theatre personalities
20th-century Indian screenwriters
20th-century Indian male writers