Acting

Gyanesh Mukhopadhyay

Born July 5, 1926 · Shyambazar, Calcutta, British Raj (now India)

Died May 8, 2008 · aged 81

Gyanesh Mukherjee was a Bengali actor, director, and theater personality. He was involved with the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA). In his film career, Mukherjee worked with famous directors like Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, and Tapan Sinha. From the late 1950s to the 1970s, he played a prolific role in cinema and theatre.

Known For

The House Next Door

The House Next Door · 1952

The House Next Door

MovieRomanceComedy

This is a love story of a simple man who falls in love with his neighborhood lady. The lady has ample interest in songs and dances. The man without having singing ability wants to impress her but fails. He takes the help of his friend, a good singer.

Bansher Kella

Bansher Kella · 1953

MovieHistoryWar

A 1953 Historical Patriotic Bengali Film directed by Sudhir Mukhopadhyay.

Up in the Clouds

Up in the Clouds · 1965

Up in the Clouds

A young man still to find a place in the sun puts up an innocent bluff to a young girl he chances upon. They meet frequently since then. Bluffs continue to pile up. There is no way out. In a desperate bid the young man tries to break the wealth barrier. His friend, well placed in life, cautions him. He turns a deaf ear. The inevitable happens. The young man grows wiser but pays heavily for it.

Reason, Debate and a Story

Reason, Debate and a Story · 1974

Reason, Debate and a Story

Four men, each peculiar in his own way, embark on a quest to reason with the estranged wife of the protagonist. This is considered to be Ghatak's autobiographical film.

The Expedition

The Expedition · 1962

Narsingh, a North Indian taxi driver, attempts to reinvent his life by visiting his native place, but instead gets embroiled in a local Marwari businessman's smuggling and human trafficking business.

Bibhas

A jobless man reaches a village where he finds work in a doctor's office. Later, he learns that the doctor has murdered many people and cons them of their wealth on false pretenses. He decides to expose the doctor and save the villagers.

Ajantrik

Ajantrik · 1958

MovieDramaComedy

Bimal is a taxi-driver in a small provincial town. He lives alone, his taxi (an old 1920 Chevrolet jalopy which he named Jagaddal) is his only companion and, although very battered, it is the apple of Bimal's eye.

Ganga

Film about the lives of people on the banks of the Ganges.

Filmography

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The House Next Door

The House Next Door · 1952

The House Next Door

MovieRomanceComedy

This is a love story of a simple man who falls in love with his neighborhood lady. The lady has ample interest in songs and dances. The man without having singing ability wants to impress her but fails. He takes the help of his friend, a good singer.

Bansher Kella

Bansher Kella · 1953

MovieHistoryWar

A 1953 Historical Patriotic Bengali Film directed by Sudhir Mukhopadhyay.

Up in the Clouds

Up in the Clouds · 1965

Up in the Clouds

A young man still to find a place in the sun puts up an innocent bluff to a young girl he chances upon. They meet frequently since then. Bluffs continue to pile up. There is no way out. In a desperate bid the young man tries to break the wealth barrier. His friend, well placed in life, cautions him. He turns a deaf ear. The inevitable happens. The young man grows wiser but pays heavily for it.

Phonibhushan (Phoni Babu)

Reason, Debate and a Story

Reason, Debate and a Story · 1974

Reason, Debate and a Story

Four men, each peculiar in his own way, embark on a quest to reason with the estranged wife of the protagonist. This is considered to be Ghatak's autobiographical film.

The Expedition

The Expedition · 1962

Narsingh, a North Indian taxi driver, attempts to reinvent his life by visiting his native place, but instead gets embroiled in a local Marwari businessman's smuggling and human trafficking business.

Josef

Bibhas

A jobless man reaches a village where he finds work in a doctor's office. Later, he learns that the doctor has murdered many people and cons them of their wealth on false pretenses. He decides to expose the doctor and save the villagers.

Janak

Ajantrik

Ajantrik · 1958

MovieDramaComedy

Bimal is a taxi-driver in a small provincial town. He lives alone, his taxi (an old 1920 Chevrolet jalopy which he named Jagaddal) is his only companion and, although very battered, it is the apple of Bimal's eye.

Mechanic

Ganga

Film about the lives of people on the banks of the Ganges.

Kahan Kahan Se Guzar Gaya

Kahan Kahan Se Guzar Gaya · 1986

Kahan Kahan Se Guzar Gaya

Ravi, a wealthy model, leaves his father's business after unsatisfactory modeling work and returns to his parents' home to join struggle students and revolutionary Manohar.

Uttar Megh

Uttar Megh · 1960

MovieDramaRomance

A 1960 Bengali Romantic Drama Film directed by Jiban Gangopadhyay, featuring Mahanayak Uttam Kumar & Supriya Devi in lead roles.

Nimantran

Nimantran · 1971

MovieDramaComedy

Hiru Ganguly is unable to marry Kumudini, his lover, after her father rejects his marriage proposal. Years later, although married to another woman, he once again desires to win her back. As old feelings are rekindled, will they take any steps to go against the social customs?

Boatman

Megh

MovieDramaDocumentary

Runaway

Runaway · 1958

Kanchan, all of eight years old, is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, until he reaches there.

Father

A Soft Note on a Sharp Scale

A Soft Note on a Sharp Scale · 1961

A Soft Note on a Sharp Scale

MovieDramaMusic

Set in 1950s Calcutta against the partition of India, the plot follows two rival factions born out of the divided leadership of the radical IPTA theater movement. Amidst their intense creative differences, a romance develops between two uprooted refugees, Bhrigu and Anusuya.

Debu Bose

The Royal Hunt

The Royal Hunt · 1977

A British administrator with a flair for game hunting develops a friendship with a commoner who is an expert archer in an Indian village. The movie portrays the relationship between the British colonialists, and native villagers who were exploited by Indian landlords in 1920s India. This happens against the backdrop of the awakening of the Indian people against the British rule.

The Cloud-Capped Star

The Cloud-Capped Star · 1960

The Cloud-Capped Star

A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.

Banshi Dutta

Beyond the Thirteen Rivers

Beyond the Thirteen Rivers · 1969

Beyond the Thirteen Rivers

Loosely based on a story revolving around a travelling circus and how it deals with the pressures of commercialization with the advent of dancing girls.

Palatak

Palatak · 1963

A wealthy man is struck by wanderlust that always takes him to new places where he mingles with the lives of different people.

Hirer Angti

Hirer Angti · 1992

MovieDramaFamily

Gandharva Kumar's arrival disrupts the festival mood of Durga Puja at Ratanlal Babu's house. He captivates the grandchildren of Ratanlal — Babu, Habul, and Tinni — with his magic tricks. Gandharva Kumar then reveals a long-forgotten secret wherein he claims to be heir to the family property of Ratanlal Babu. This creates shock in the entire family and casts gloom, resulting in dramatic incidents.

Panchu

Ei Korechho Bhalo

Ei Korechho Bhalo · 1970

Ei Korechho Bhalo

MovieComedyRomance

A miser bequeaths his property to his two destitute nephews, provided they within a month marry girls who are well mannered, high family, beautiful and young (22-24 age) issue-less divorcees, divorced within 2 months of marriage.

Prabhat (Manager)

Ekhane Pinjar

Ekhane Pinjar · 1971

Amal Basu, who decides to visit his hometown, meets Lila on the train. When he goes to his friend Nabendu's home, he learns that Lila is his sister and a smuggler.

Damu

A gullible man faces strange situations on his quest fo find an elephant in order to keep a promise he made with a little girl.

Owner of Circus

The Wedding Day

The Wedding Day · 1960

The Wedding Day

The tragic story set in the late 1930s, just before famine struck Bengal. It tells of the marriage of a dumpy middle-aged salesman of small goods to a beautiful teenager, and how, after initial days of happiness together, a series of misfortunes strike which slowly embitter the man.

An Unfinished Story

An Unfinished Story · 1971

An Unfinished Story

Based on a Bengali story, Gotrantar by Subodh Ghosh.