Prabhat Roy

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name	Prabhat Roy
native_name	প্রভাত রায়
native_name_lang	bn
image	PRABHAT ROY.jpg
birth_place	Jamshedpore, British India (present-day Jharkhand, India)
birth_date
citizenship	Indian
occupation	Filmmaker
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| name = Prabhat Roy | native_name = প্রভাত রায় | native_name_lang = bn | image = PRABHAT ROY.jpg | birth_place = Jamshedpore, British India (present-day Jharkhand, India) | birth_date = | citizenship = Indian | occupation = Filmmaker | notable_works = | spouse = | awards =

Prabhat Roy (; born 1946 in Jamshedpore) is a former Indian director who is known for his work in Bengali cinema. |url=http://photogallery.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2344727.cms |title=Prabhat Roy - Calcutta - Events - Society - Indiatimes Photogallery |publisher=indiatimes.com |accessdate=2008-11-14 |last= |first= 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. |url = http://www.seventymm.com/Actor/7916/Prabhat_Roy |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080307015847/http://www.seventymm.com/Actor/7916/Prabhat_roy |url-status = dead |archive-date = 2008-03-07 |title = Prabhat Roy |publisher = www.seventymm.com |accessdate = 2008-11-14 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

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Award	Year	Category	Film	Result	Ref.
National Award	1993	Best Feature Film on Family Welfare	Shwet Pathorer Thala		url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm40thNFAAward.aspx
1997	Lathi		url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm44thNFAAward.aspx	title=44th National Film Awards	publisher=International Film Festival of India
Lux ETV Award	2005	Best Film	Manik
Anandalok Award	2006	Best Film	Shubhodrishti
7th Filmfare Awards Bangla	2024	Lifetime achievement Award
Kalakar Award					title=List of Kalakar award winners
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Filmography

As a director

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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
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• He also directed 16 telefilms & 3 TV Series.

Assistant Director

Actor

• Abhimanyu (1989)
• Amanush (1975)

Legacy

Book

• Clapstick : Autobiography of Prabhat Roy

References

References

1. "'Cosmic Sex' was refused screening at Nandan for aesthetic reasons, says director Prabhat Roy".
2. সংবাদদাতা, নিজস্ব. "Prabhat Roy: ৬ মাস কেটেছে রোগশয্যায়, প্রয়াত প্রভাত রায়ের স্ত্রী জয়শ্রী".
3. সংবাদদাতা, আনন্দবাজার অনলাইন. "স্বপ্ন ছিল, ২৫ বছরের মতো ৫০ বছরের বিবাহবার্ষিকীতেও নতুন শাড়িতে সাজাব জয়শ্রীকে: প্রভাত".
4. "Prabhat Roy movies, filmography, biography and songs - Cinestaan.com".
5. "Here are a few our favourite Rituparna Sengupta roles".
6. দে, সুস্মিতা. (2025-06-15). "‘ওর হাতটা ‘লাঠি’র মতো শক্ত করে ধরে...’, একতাকে জীবনের ‘লাস্ট বাট বেস্ট এন্ট্রি’ বললেন প্রভাত রায়".
7. "প্রভাতদার ছবিতে আমার পরে বুম্বা-ভিক্টর, হীনম্মন্যতায় ভুগেছি এমন নয়: চিরঞ্জিৎ". [[Anandabazar Patrika]].
8. "Affiliated College of University of Calcutta".
9. "40th National Film Awards". [[International Film Festival of India]].
10. "44th National Film Awards". [[International Film Festival of India]].
11. (March 2018). "List of Kalakar award winners". Kalakar awards.
12. (January 1985). "Bandhan Anjana".
13. "Zindagani".
14. "Shwet Paathorer Thala".
15. "Sandhyatara (1994)".
16. "Lathi".
17. "Zee Bangla Originals' thriller Birat 22 to air on November 8".

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