Prabhat Roy

Prabhat Roy
প্রভাত রায়
Born1946 (age 79–80)
Jamshedpore, British India (present-day Jharkhand, India)
CitizenshipIndian
OccupationFilmmaker
Notable work
  • Shwet Paatharer Thala
  • Sandhyatara
  • Lathi
Spouse
Jayashree Roy
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(m. 1974; death 2022)​
Awards

Prabhat Roy (Bengali: প্রভাত রায়; born 1946 in Jamshedpore) is a former Indian director who is known for his work in Bengali cinema. Winner of two National Awards, he is known for handling social issues in his directorial ventures Shwet Patharer Thala (1992), Sandhyatara (1994) and Lathi (1996).

He began his career as an assistant director in the early 1970s. He claimed to fame after his directorial venture Protidan (1983) starring Sharmila Tagore, Ranjit Mallick, Victor Banerjee and Naseeruddin Shah emerged to be a major box office success. He made commercial blockbusters such as Pratikar (1987), Pratik (1988), Lathi (1996) and Shubhodrishti (2005). Other than feature films, he directed 16 telefilms and 3 TV series. He introduced June Malia and Priyanka Trivedi to showbiz.

Early life

Prabhat lived in Barrackpore, North 24 parganas, West Bengal but born in Jamshedpur. Prabhat studied at Ramakrishna Mission Siksha Mandir, Sarisha.He holds a bachelor's degree in Commerce from Maharaja Manindra Chandra College.

Awards

Award Year Category Film Result Ref.
National Award 1993 Best Feature Film on Family Welfare Shwet Pathorer Thala Won
1997 Lathi Won
2005 Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment Subhodrishti Won
Lux ETV Award 2005 Best Film Manik Won
Anandalok Award 2006 Best Film Shubhodrishti Won
7th Filmfare Awards Bangla 2024 Lifetime achievement Award Won
Kalakar Award Won

Filmography

As a director

Year Title Cast Language Ref.
Feature film TV series
1983 Protidan Sharmila Tagore, Ranjit Mullick, Victor Banerjee, Nasiruddin Shah, Lily Chakravarty, Anamika Saha
1985 Bandhan Anjana Sharmila Tagore Hindi
1986 Zindagani Mithun Chakraborty, Rati Agnihotri, Raakhee Hindi
1987 Pratikar Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Shakuntala Barua, Victor Banerjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Satabdi Roy, Debashree Roy, Biplab Chatterjee
1988 Pratik Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Soumitra Chatterjee, Raakhee, Tapas Paul, Roopa Ganguly, Papiya Adhikari
1989 Aamar Shapath Prasenjit Chatterjee, Shatabdi Roy
1989 Agnitrishna Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Ranjit Mallick, Madhabi Mukherjee, Roopa Ganguly, Satabdi Roy
1989 Hum Intezaar Karenge Mithun Chakraborty, Padmini Kolhapure Hindi
1989 Pronomi Tomay Arjun Chakraborty, Reshma Singh, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Sumitra Mukherjee, Biplab Chatterjee
1990 Papi Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Debashree Roy, Abhishek Chatterjee, Pallavi Chatterjee. Dipankar Dey, Kaushik Banerjee, Indrani Dutta
1992 Anutap Raj Babbar, Debashree Roy, Rabi Ghosh, Anup Kumar. Soumitra Bannerjee, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Nirmal Kumar
1992 Shwet Paatharer Thala Aparna Sen, Dipankar Dey, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Indrani Haldar, Rituparna Sengupta, Dilip Roy, Haradhan Bandopadhyay, Meenakshi Goswami, Lily Chakravarty, Bhaskar Banerjee, Gopa Aich, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhya
1993 Duranta Prem Deepak Sharma, Chandana Sen, Tapas Paul, Rachna Banerjee, Tota Roy Choudhury, Dolon Roy, Subhendu Chatterjee, Shakuntala Barua
1994 Sandhyatara Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Debashree Roy, Manoj Mitra, Uttam Mohanty, Sumanta Mukherjee
1995 Andolan Rituparna Sengupta
1996 Lathi Victor Banerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Abhishek Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Satabdi Roy, Rituparna Sengupta, Pallavi Chatterjee, Dulal Lahiri, Dipankar De, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Haradhan Banerjee, Manoj Mitra, Nirmal Kumar, Kaushik Banerjee, Bodhisattva majumdar, Debika Mitra, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Gita Dey, Tota Roy Choudhury, June Malia, Pushpita Mukherjee, Koushik Sen
1997 Joddha Chiranjeet, Debashree Roy, Tapas Paul, Abhishek Chatterjee, Priyanka Trivedi, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Lily Chakravarty
1997 Sedin Chaitramas Sanjib Das Gupta, Indrani Dutta, Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Dipankar De
1999 Khelaghar Supriya Devi, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Sreelekha Mitra, Abhishek Chatterjee, Pallavi Chatterjee
1999 Shudhu Ekbar Bolo Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Mouli Ganguly
1999 Tumi Ele Tai Victor Banerjee, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Tapas Paul, Anuradha Roy, Santu Mukherjee, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Arpita Chatterjee
2000 Shesh Thikana Supriya Devi, Jaya Seal Ghosh, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Shakuntala Barua
2005 Ek Mutho Chhabi Rajatabha Dutta, Sreelekha Mitra, June Malia, Arunima Ghosh, Roopa Ganguly, Indrani Halder, Pallavi Chatterjee, Samata Das, Monami Ghosh, Biplab Chatterjee, Moumita Gupta, Bikram Ghosh, Kunal Mitra, Koushik Sen, Dilip Roy
2005 Manik Jeet, Koel Mallick, Ranjit Mallick, Debdoot Ghosh, Samata Das, Shyamal Dutta, Biplab Chatterjee, Rajesh Sharma, Monu Mukherjee
2005 Shubhodrishti Jeet, Koel Mallick, Parambrata Chatterjee, Sanjib Dasgupta, Bharat Kaul, Laboni Sarkar, Biswajit Chakraborty, Dilip Ray
2006 Priyotama Jeet, Swastika Mukherjee, Laboni Sarkar
2007 Pitribhumi Jeet, Swastika Mukherjee.Lily Chakravarty, Shakuntala Barua
2010 Hangover Prosenjit Chatterjee, Subhra Kundu, Joy Kumar Mukherjee, Sayantika Banerjee, Subhashish Mukherjee, Biplab Chatterjee, Supriyo Dutta
2011 Bhorer Alo Priyanshu Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Rohit Roy, Anusmriti Sarkar
2015 Birat 22

Assistant Director

Actor

Legacy

Book

References

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  19. ↑ "Zee Bangla Originals' thriller Birat 22 to air on November 8". The Times of India. Retrieved 14 March 2020.