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'''Agradoot''' ({{lit|pioneer, harbinger}})<ref>{{cite web |last1=Biswas |first1=Sailendra |title=Samsad Bengali-English Dictionary, 3rd ed. |url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/biswas-bengali_query.py?page=8 |publisher=Sahitya Samsad |accessdate=6 July 2020 |date=2000|location=Calcutta}}</ref> was a group of Indian film technicians signing collectively as director, a phenomenon unique to [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali cinema]].<ref name="RajadhyakshaWillemen2014">{{cite book
|author1=Ashish Rajadhyaksha
|author2=Paul Willemen
|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLkABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA40
|date=10 July 2014
|publisher=Routledge
|isbn=978-1-135-94318-9
|pages=40–
|quote=AGRADOOT Best-known instance of phenomenon unique to Bengali cinema: group of film technicians signing ... The Agradoot core unit, formed in 1946, consisted initially of Bibhuti Laha (cameraman born in 1915), Jatin Datta (sound), Sailen ...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
|title=India Perspectives
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o6myAAAAIAAJ
|year=2000
|publisher=Produced by PTI for the Ministry of External Affairs
|page=16
|quote=Another significant happening in 1946 was the starting of a phenomenon unique to Bengali cinema: a group of film ... The Agradoot}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
|title=The Word
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NUViAAAAMAAJ
|volume=9
|year=1971
|publisher=Rajendra Prasad College of Mass Communications & Media.
|page=15
|quote= ... of talented makers of films in Bengal — Ritwick Ghatak, the Agragami and Agradoot teams of Directors, to mention but a ...}}</ref> The Agradoot core unit, formed in 1946, consisted initially of Bibhuti Laha (cameraman, 1915–1997), Jatin Datta (sound), Sailen Ghosal (lab work), Nitai Bhattacharya (scenarist) and Bimal Ghosh (production).<ref name="SadoulMorris1972">{{cite book
|author1=Georges Sadoul
|author2=Peter Morris
|title=Dictionary of Film Makers
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PvsZikRu-hAC&pg=PA2
|date=1 January 1972
|publisher=University of California Press
|isbn=978-0-520-02151-8
|pages=2–
|quote=AGRADOOT pseud collective dir/scen/ prod Nishith Bannerjee Agragami (1924- ) photog Bibhuti Lata (1915- ) Among the best Bengali directors, ...}}</ref><ref name="Narwekar1994">{{cite book
|author=Sanjit Narwekar
|title=Directory of Indian film-makers and films
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UYUjAQAAIAAJ
|year=1994
|publisher=Flicks Books
|page=4
|quote=Agradoot is the collective name for a group of film personalities formed and led by Bibhuti Laha (born 6 November 1915 North Calcutta, West Bengal state, eastern India) and comprising various film-makers at different times. Laha graduated from the ... In 1946 he created the Agradoot unit together with ...}}</ref> The group was active up to the end of 1980s.<ref name="Thoraval2000">{{cite book
|author=Yves Thoraval
|title=The cinemas of India
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-OpkAAAAMAAJ
|date=1 February 2000
|publisher=Macmillan India
|isbn=978-0-333-93410-4
|page=237
|quote=Finally, we must mention one of India's best known 'cooperative' experiments, characteristic of the politicisation of Bengali cinema, the group Agradoot formed in 1946, and active up to the end of the '80s. All the constituent units in the production of films by this group — technicians, producer, scriptwriter, etc. — signed the work collectively, once it was over, without any other name of filmmaker than Agradoot. Among the productions of this type of ...}}</ref>

== Selected filmography ==
*1947: ''Swapna-o-Sadhana''
*1948: ''Sabyasachi'',<ref name="Gaur1973">{{cite book
|author=Madan Gaur
|title=Other Side of the Coin: An Intimate Study of Indian Film Industry
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LAAwAAAAMAAJ
|year=1973
|publisher=Trimurti Prakashan
|page=341}}</ref> ''Samapika''
*1949: ''Sankalpa''<ref name="Sadoul1987">{{cite book
|author=Georges Sadoul
|title=Historia del cine mundial: desde los orígenes
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mphsR8d-ZagC&pg=PA424
|year=1987
|publisher=Siglo XXI
|language=Spanish
|isbn=968-23-0533-0
|pages=424–
|quote=Un grupo de realizadores y operadores tomó el nombre colectivo de Agradoot y dirigió Sankalpa (El voto) y Sahajatri, antes de lograr una obra de gran nobleza y muy emocionante con Babia, historia de un niño que trabaja para mantener a ...}}</ref>
*1951: ''Babla''<ref name="Sathe1984">{{cite book
|author=V. P. Sathe
|title=Filmotsav '84, Bombay
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ENZkAAAAMAAJ
|year=1984
|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals}}</ref> and ''[[Sahajatri]]''<ref name="SurGoswami1999">{{cite book
|author1=Ansu Sur
|author2=Abhijit Goswami
|title=Bengali Film Directory
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R-hkAAAAMAAJ
|year=1999
|publisher=Nandan, West Bengal Film Centre
|page=61}}</ref>
*1952: ''Aandi''
*1954: ''Anupama''<ref>{{cite book
|title=The Illustrated Weekly of India
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MHc6AQAAIAAJ
|volume=85
|date=October 1964
|publisher=Published for the proprietors, Bennett, Coleman & Company, Limited, at the Times of India Press
|page=4
|chapter=4}}</ref>
*1954: ''[[Agni Pariksha (1954 film)|Agni Pariksha]]''<ref>{{cite book
|title=Mahanayak
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9mqjBpbs--sC&pg=PT34
|year=2013
|publisher=Westland
|isbn=978-93-82618-33-1
|pages=34–
|quote=When Bibhuti Laha, making films under the name of Agradoot, decided to cast them in Agni ...}}</ref>
*1955: ''Shobar Opore''
*1956: ''[[Trijama]]''
*1957: ''Pathey Holo Deri''
*1959: ''Lalu Bhulu''<ref name="VittalBhattacharjee2015">{{cite book
|author1=B Vittal
|author2=A Bhattacharjee
|title=Gaata Rahe Mera Dil: 50 Classic Hindi Film Songs
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ChTmCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT100
|date=15 June 2015
|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers India
|isbn=978-93-5136-457-3
|pages=100–
|quote= ... Directed by a group which called itself Agradoot, it is based on a story by Dr Nihar Ranjan Gupta about two young and ...}}</ref>
*1959: ''Surya Toran''
*1960: ''[[Khokababur Pratyabartan]]''
*1960: ''[[Kuhak (1960 film)|Kuhak]]''
*1961: ''Agni Sanskar''
*1962: ''[[Bipasha (1962 film)|Bipasha]]'' and ''Nav Diganta''
*1963: ''Uttarayan''
*1965: ''Antaral'', ''Suryatapa'', and ''Tapasi''
*1967: ''[[Nayika Sangbad]]''
*1968: ''Kokhono Megh''<ref name="Cowie1968">{{cite book
|author=Peter Cowie
|title=World Filmography
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u5U3AAAAIAAJ
|year=1968
|publisher=Tantivy Press
|page=275}}</ref>
*1969: ''Chiradiner''
*1970: ''Manjari Opera''
*1971: ''[[Chhadmabeshi]]''
*1973: ''Sonar Khancha''
*1977: ''Din Amader''
*1981: ''[[Surya Sakhi]]''
*1989: ''Aparenher Alo''

== References ==
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== External links ==
*{{IMDb name|0013255}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120225073620/http://www.citwf.com/detailPerson.asp?personID=478805&sortOn=YEAR&sortBy=UP Agradoot in www.citwf.com]

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