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Premendra Mitra (4 September 1904 – 3 May 1988) was an Indian poet, writer and film director in the Bengali language. He was also a practitioner of Bengali science fiction. His critique of humanity led him to believe that for it to survive, human beings had to "forget their differences and be united".
Birth and family
Premendra Mitra was born on 4 September 1904 at his father's workplace Varanasi. His ancestral house was at Rajpur in the district of South 24 Parganas of West Bengal. He belonged to the renowned Mitra family of Konnagar (in Hooghly district, West Bengal). His father's name was Gyanendranath Mitra and his mother was Suhasini Debi. He lost his mother at an early age.
Life
Premendra Mitra was born in Varanasi, India where his father Gyanendranath Mitra was an employee of the Indian Railways and because of that he had the opportunity to travel to many places in India. Having lost his mother, who died during his childhood, he was brought up by his grandparents in Uttar Pradesh and spent his later life in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Dhaka. He was a student of South Suburban School (Main) and enrolled for a BA at the Scottish Church College in Calcutta which he left prematurely to study agriculture in Santiniketan with a friend of Rabindranath Tagore, Leonard Elmhirst. Because it did not hold his interest, he returned to education first on an undergraduate course in Dhaka and in 1925 at Asutosh College in Calcutta where he assisted the research of Dinesh Chandra Sen. In particular, his creation of the character of GhanaDa [ঘনাদা] (meaning: 'Elder brother Ghana' in Bengali) won him public recognition.
Bibliography
= Novels
=Paank (The Mud)
Michhil (The Procession)
Uponayon (The Ceremony)
Protishod (The Revenge)
Kuasha (The Fog)
Protidhwoni Fere (Echo Returns)
Haat Baralei Bondhu
Ora Thake Odhare
Path Bhuley
Dabi
= Characters
== Publishers of Mitra's writings
=Leela Majumdar translated several Ghanada tales in a volume called Adventures of Ghanada.
The latest English translation of his Ghanada stories (Mosquito and Other Stories) was published by Penguin Books India in 2004.
Filmography
= Direction
=Samadhan [সমাধান] (The Solution) Bengali,1943
Bideshini [বিদেশিনী] (The Foreigner Lady) Bengali, 1944
Path Bendhe Dilo [পথ বেঁধে দিল] (The Way Is Closed) Bengali, 1945.
Rajlakshmi [राजलक्ष्मी] Hindi, 1945.
Notun Khobor [নতুন খবর] (New News) Bengali, 1947: Starred by Dhiraj Bhattacharya. Story, Screenplay by Mitra.
Kalo Chhaya [কালো ছায়া] (Black Shadow) Bengali, 1948: Starred by Dhiraj Bhattacharya.
Kuasha (1949) [কুয়াশা] (The Fog) Bengali, 1949: Based on his own novel, starring Nripati Chattopadhyay.
Kankantala Light Railway 1950
Setu 1951
Hanabari [হানাবাড়ি] (The Haunted House) Bengali, 1952: A Dhiraj Bhattacharya and Nabadwip Halder starred film, where the mystery of a terrible creature in a haunted building was solved by a detective in disguise of a beggar. This movie was also produced by Mitra.
Dui Biye [দুই বিয়ে়] (Two Marriages) Bengali, 1953: Nripati Chattopadhyay and Dhiraj Bhattyacharya acted.
Moyla Kagaj [ময়লা কাগজ] (The Dirty Paper) Bengali, 1954: Cast by Anil Chatterjee and Nripati Chattopadhyay.
Dakinir Char [ডাকিনীর চর] (The Island of Witch) Bengali, 1955
Chupi Chupi Aashey [চুপি চুপি আসে] (Silently He Comes) Bengali, 1960; an uncredited adaptation of Agatha Christie's 'The Mousetrap'.
= Story, screenplay, lyrics and dialogues
=Bhabikaal [ভাবী কাল] (The Future) Bengali, 1945 – Story: Directed by Niren Lihiri.
Avijog [অভিযোগ] (The Complain) Bengali, 1947 – Story, Screenplay, Lyrics: Directed by Shushil Majumder.
Digvranto [দিগভ্রান্ত] (The Lost Destination) Bengali, 1950 – Story, Screenplay: Directed by Shushil Majumder.
Ora Thake Odhare [ওরা থাকে ওধারে] (They Live That Side) Bengali, 1954 – Story, Screenplay, Lyrics: This funny movie is based on contemporary Ghati [ঘটি] and Bangal বাঙাল disputes of fifties. Starred by Uttam Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Bhanu Bandyopadhyay, Tulsi Chakrabarti, Chhabi Biswas and Dhiraj Bhattacharya. Directed by Sukumar Dashgupta.
References
External links
Works by or about Premendra Mitra at the Internet Archive
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Khandhar
- Kapurush
- Kanan Devi
- Premendra Mitra
- Ghanada
- Mitra (surname)
- Kallol
- Parashor Barma
- Kalo Chhaya
- Barma
- List of detective fiction authors
- Ghori (story)
- Apradhi Kaun? (1957 film)
