Nemai Ghosh (director)

Not to be confused with Bengali still cinematographer, Nemai Ghosh.

Nemai Ghosh, or Nimai Ghosh^[1] (1914–1988), was an Indian film director and cinematographer, best known for his film Chinnamul (1950).

Nemai Ghosh
Born	1914 Calcutta, West Bengal, British India [now India]
Died	1988
Occupation(s)	Cinematographer, director
Years active	1940s–1981

Career

Ghosh started his career as a stage actor with Little Theatre Group formed by Utpal Dutt .^[2] In addition to photography, he directed the highly acclaimed and neo-realistic Chinnamul (1950), that dealt with partition of Bengal during the partition of India in 1947. Film director Ritwik Ghatak started his film career as an assistant in this film.^[3][4][5]

However, despite critical acclaim, Chinnamul failed commercially. Thereafter Ghosh relocated to Madras (now Chennai), and he worked in Tamil cinema as a cinematographer ^[6] in a few films and directed a film titled Paathai Theriyudhu Paar that won Certificate of Merit for Second Best Feature Film in Tamil.^[1] His last film as a director was the Tamil film Sooravali (1981).

Ghosh was also active in the Film Society movement in Chennai and started the Madras Film Society which was the first society involved in that part of the country. This society came after Bombay and Calcutta Film Societies started in 1942 and 1947 respectively.

He was also a pioneer in the labour movement of employees of various hues working in the film industry in Madras which was the production centre for Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films during those days.

Filmography

As director

• Chinnamul (1950)
• Paadhai Theriyudhu Paar (1960)
• Sooravali (1981)

As cinematographer

• Chinnamul (1950)
• Anubavi Raja Anubavi (1967)

References

1. . International Film Festival of India. Archived from the original on 23 November 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
2. "Moving Stills". 22 August 2004. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
3. Anjali Gera Roy; Nandi Bhatia (2008). Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement, and Resettlement. Pearson Education India. pp. 68–. ISBN 978-81-317-1416-4. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
4. Rosalind Galt; Karl Schoonover (2010). Global Art Cinema : New Theories and Histories: New Theories and Histories. Oxford University Press. pp. 241–. ISBN 978-0-19-972629-5.
5. Laura E. Ruberto; Kristi M. Wilson (2007). Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema. Wayne State University Press. pp. 81–. ISBN 978-0-8143-3324-2.
6. Jisha Menon (29 November 2012). The Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan, and the Memory of Partition. Cambridge University Press. pp. 58–. ISBN 978-1-107-00010-0.

External links

• Nemai Ghosh at IMDb