Veteran Bengali filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta handed away on Thursday morning at his South Kolkata residence, after a protracted battle with kidney illnesses. He was 77 and was protecting unwell for greater than a yr present process common dialysis for a very long time. Accoring to studies, he died in his sleep at 8 within the morning immediately(June 10).
His demise has left an enormous void within the Bengali movie business and a number of other filmmakers took to social media to supply their condolences and pay tribute to the legendary director. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee additionally took to social media to supply condolences and has referred to as his loss of life a ‘great loss’ for the Bengali movie business.
Popular Bengali filmmaker Raj Chakraborty was one of many first ones to condole the loss of life of the veteran director. Raj took to Twitter and write, “Recipient of numerous National and International honours, legendary filmmaker and renowned poet, #BuddhadebDasgupta has passed away. Sincere condolences to his family and friends (sic).”
The legendary director had received National Film Award for Best Feature Film 5 occasions in his profession together with Bagh Bahadur (1989), Charachar (1993), Lal Darja (1997), Mondo Meyer Upakhyan (2002) and Kaalpurush (2008), whereas his movies Dooratwa (1978) and Tahader Katha (1993) received the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali. He was additionally honoured with Best Director Award for his movies Uttara (2000) and Swapner Din (2005).
He was additionally honoured with the lifetime achievement award on the Spain International Film Festival in Madrid on 27 May 2008.
