Nabyendu Chattopadhyay

Biography

Nabyendu Chatterjee (1937 – 14 January 2009) was an Indian Bengali and Hindi film director and producer. In 1991 he received the 38th National Award for the Best Feature Film in Bengali.

Chatterjee started his career as an actor in 1962 but soon turned into direction. He worked with Bengali director Aravind Mukherjee as an assistant. He made his directorial debut with an experimental Hindi film Naya Rasta in 1967. In his career, he was known as an independent, offbeat filmmaker with unparalleled art films. His choice of literary stories to be translated into film scripts by himself. In 1981 Chatterjee made Sarisreep - The Reptile based on Manik Bandopadhyay's story. His last finished work M...