Prabhat Roy
Native nameপ্রভাত রায়
Birth placeJamshedpore, British India (present-day Jharkhand, India)
Birth date1946 (age 80–81)
CitizenshipIndian
OccupationFilmmaker[1]
Notable works
  • Shwet Paatharer Thala
  • Sandhyatara
  • Lathi
SpouseJayashree Roy (m. 1974; ended 2022)[2][3]
Awards

Prabhat Roy (Bengali: প্রভাত রায়; born 1946 in Jamshedpore) is a former Indian director who is known for his work in Bengali cinema.[4][5] 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).[6][7]

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.[8] He made commercial blockbusters such as Pratikar (1987), Pratik (1988), Lathi (1996) and Shubhodrishti (2005).[9] Other than feature films, he directed 16 telefilms and 3 TV series. He introduced June Malia and Priyanka Trivedi to showbiz.[7]

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[10].

Awards

AwardYearCategoryFilmResultRef.
National Award1993Best Feature Film on Family WelfareShwet Pathorer Thala[11]
1997Lathi[12]
2005Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome EntertainmentSubhodrishti
Lux ETV Award2005Best FilmManik
Anandalok Award2006Best FilmShubhodrishti
7th Filmfare Awards Bangla2024Lifetime achievement Award
Kalakar Award[13]

Filmography

As a director

YearTitleCastLanguageRef.
Feature filmTV series
1983ProtidanSharmila Tagore, Ranjit Mullick, Victor Banerjee, Nasiruddin Shah, Lily Chakravarty, Anamika Saha
1985Bandhan AnjanaSharmila TagoreHindi[14]
1986ZindaganiMithun Chakraborty, Rati Agnihotri, RaakheeHindi[15]
1987PratikarChiranjeet Chakraborty, Shakuntala Barua, Victor Banerjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Satabdi Roy, Debashree Roy, Biplab Chatterjee
1988PratikChiranjeet Chakraborty, Soumitra Chatterjee, Raakhee, Tapas Paul, Roopa Ganguly, Papiya Adhikari
1989Aamar ShapathPrasenjit Chatterjee, Shatabdi Roy
1989AgnitrishnaChiranjeet Chakraborty, Ranjit Mallick, Madhabi Mukherjee, Roopa Ganguly, Satabdi Roy
1989Hum Intezaar KarengeMithun Chakraborty, Padmini KolhapureHindi
1989Pronomi TomayArjun Chakraborty, Reshma Singh, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Sumitra Mukherjee, Biplab Chatterjee
1990PapiChiranjeet Chakraborty, Debashree Roy, Abhishek Chatterjee, Pallavi Chatterjee. Dipankar Dey, Kaushik Banerjee, Indrani Dutta
1992AnutapRaj Babbar, Debashree Roy, Rabi Ghosh, Anup Kumar. Soumitra Bannerjee, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Nirmal Kumar
1992Shwet Paatharer ThalaAparna Sen, Dipankar Dey, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Indrani Haldar, Rituparna Sengupta, Dilip Roy, Haradhan Bandopadhyay, Meenakshi Goswami, Lily Chakravarty, Bhaskar Banerjee, Gopa Aich, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhya[16]
1993Duranta PremDeepak Sharma, Chandana Sen, Tapas Paul, Rachna Banerjee, Tota Roy Choudhury, Dolon Roy, Subhendu Chatterjee, Shakuntala Barua
1994SandhyataraSabyasachi Chakraborty, Debashree Roy, Manoj Mitra, Uttam Mohanty, Sumanta Mukherjee[17]
1995AndolanRituparna Sengupta
1996LathiVictor 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[18]
1997JoddhaChiranjeet, Debashree Roy, Tapas Paul, Abhishek Chatterjee, Priyanka Trivedi, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Lily Chakravarty
1997Sedin ChaitramasSanjib Das Gupta, Indrani Dutta, Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Dipankar De
1999KhelagharSupriya Devi, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Sreelekha Mitra, Abhishek Chatterjee, Pallavi Chatterjee
1999Shudhu Ekbar BoloProsenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Mouli Ganguly
1999Tumi Ele TaiVictor Banerjee, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Tapas Paul, Anuradha Roy, Santu Mukherjee, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Arpita Chatterjee
2000Shesh ThikanaSupriya Devi, Jaya Seal Ghosh, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Shakuntala Barua
2005Ek Mutho ChhabiRajatabha 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
2005ManikJeet, Koel Mallick, Ranjit Mallick, Debdoot Ghosh, Samata Das, Shyamal Dutta, Biplab Chatterjee, Rajesh Sharma, Monu Mukherjee
2005ShubhodrishtiJeet, Koel Mallick, Parambrata Chatterjee, Sanjib Dasgupta, Bharat Kaul, Laboni Sarkar, Biswajit Chakraborty, Dilip Ray
2006PriyotamaJeet, Swastika Mukherjee, Laboni Sarkar
2007PitribhumiJeet, Swastika Mukherjee.Lily Chakravarty, Shakuntala Barua
2010HangoverProsenjit Chatterjee, Subhra Kundu, Joy Kumar Mukherjee, Sayantika Banerjee, Subhashish Mukherjee, Biplab Chatterjee, Supriyo Dutta
2011Bhorer AloPriyanshu Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Rohit Roy, Anusmriti Sarkar
2015Birat 22[19]
  • He also directed 16 telefilms & 3 TV Series.

Actor

Book

  • Clapstick : Autobiography of Prabhat Roy

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