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|name = Bansi Chandragupta<br />
|image = <br />
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|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1924|2|6}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Sialkot]], [[Punjab, British India|Punjab]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br />
|nationality = Indian<br />
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1981|6|27|1924|2|6}}<br />
|death_place = [[Brookhaven, New York]], US<br />
|alma_mater = [[University of Calcutta]] <br />
|occupation = Art Director, Production Designer<br />
}}<br />
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'''Bansi Chandragupta''' (1924–1981) was an Indian [[art director]] and [[production designer]], regarded among the greatest of art directors of [[Indian Cinema|Indian film industry]]. He won [[Filmfare Best Art Direction Award]] thrice, for ''[[Seema (1971 film)|Seema]]'' in 1972, for ''[[Do Jhoot]]'' in 1976 and for ''[[Chakra (1981 film)|Chakra]]'' in 1982. He was awarded [[Evening Standard British Film Award]] posthumously for "best technical/artistic achievement" in 1983. He was born in 1924 in [[Sialkot]], [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]], [[British India]] and died on 27 June 1981 in [[Brookhaven, New York]], United States.<br />
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Chandragupta is most well known as art director/production designer of movies directed by [[Satyajit Ray]]. He also worked with renowned film directors like [[Jean Renoir]], [[Mrinal Sen]], [[Shyam Benegal]], [[Basu Chatterjee]], [[Ismail Merchant]], [[James Ivory (director)|James Ivory]] and [[Aparna Sen]].<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Bansi Chandragupta was born at Sialkot in Pakistan. Chandragupta's family moved from Pakistan to [[Kashmir]] when he was a young boy. Here he met painter Shubho Tagore, on whose advice Chandragupta moved to [[Calcutta]] to pursue his ambition in painting. He spent most of his working life in this city.<ref name="encyclo">p 539, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&pg=PT549&dq=Bansi+Chandragupta%E2%80%8E&sig=7eigxCBFL6rAAjZ1azsAVVwUWkM Google books preview], from 'Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema', by Gulzar, Govind Nihalani, Saibal Chatterjee, {{ISBN|81-7991-066-0}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
After a few stints in [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali]] commercial films, Chandragupta got a chance to work as art director in [[Jean Renoir]]'s movie ''[[The River (1951 film)|The River]]'' (1951). Here he worked closely with production designer [[Eugène Lourié]] and learned the craft of film designing.<ref name="encyclo"/> During the shooting of this movie, he met [[Satyajit Ray]] who asked him to join a group of film enthusiasts that included Ray, RP Gupta, [[Chidananda Dasgupta]], [[Harisadhan Dasgupta]] and others, to form the [[Calcutta Film Society]].<br />
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Later, Ray asked Chandragupta to be set designer for his film ''[[Pather Panchali]]''. This collaboration sustained till ''[[Shatranj Ke Khilari]]'' (1977). Some of the best examples of Chandragupta's work are from the Ray films: ''[[Pather Panchali]]'', ''[[Jalsaghar]]'' and ''[[Charulata]]''.<br />
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Apart from Ray's films, best works of Chandragupta's works are visible in ''[[36 Chowringhee Lane]]'' by Aparna Sen, ''[[Umrao Jaan (1981 film)|Umrao Jaan]]'' by Muzzafar Ali and ''Chakra'' by Rabindra Dharamraj.<ref name="encyclo"/> All these were shot in 1981, the year Chandragupta died of a heart attack in New York.<br />
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''[[36 Chowringhee Lane]]'' was dedicated to Chandragupta.<br />
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==Filmography==<br />
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===Production Designer===<br />
* ''[[Akaler Sandhane]]'' (1980) directed by [[Mrinal Sen]]<br />
* ''Manzil'' (1979) directed by [[Basu Chatterjee]]<br />
* ''Mahatma and the Mad Boy'' (1974) directed by [[Ismail Merchant]]<br />
* ''[[27 Down]]'' (1974)<br />
* ''[[Pratidwandi]]'' (1972) directed by [[Satyajit Ray]]<br />
* ''[[Seemabaddha]]'' (1971) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''[[Aranyer Din Ratri]]'' (1970) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''[[The Guru (1969 film)|The Guru]]'' (1969) directed by [[James Ivory (director)|James Ivory]]<br />
* ''[[Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne]]'' (1968) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''[[Chiriyakhana]]'' (1967) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''[[Nayak (1966 film)|Nayak]]'' (1966) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''[[Akash Kusum]]'' (1965) directed by Mrinal Sen<br />
* ''[[Kapurush]]'' (1965) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''[[Mahapurush]]'' (1965) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''[[Charulata]]'' (1964) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''[[Mahanagar]]'' (1963) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''[[Abhijan]]'' (1962) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''[[Kanchenjungha]]'' (1962) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''[[Rabindranath Tagore (film)|Rabindranath Tagore]]'' (1961) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''[[Teen Kanya]]'' (1961) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''Baishey Shravana' (1960) directed by Mrinal Sen<br />
* ''[[Devi (1960 film)|Devi]]'' (1960) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''[[Apur Sansar]]'' (1959) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''[[Jalsaghar]]'' (1958) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''Maya Bazaar'' (1958)<br />
* ''[[Parash Pathar]]'' (1958) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''[[Aparajito]]'' (1956) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''[[Pather Panchali]]'' (1955) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
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===Art Director===<br />
* ''[[Tarang (film)|Tarang]]'' (1984) directed by Kumar Sahani<br />
* ''[[36 Chowringhee Lane]]'' (1981) directed by [[Aparna Sen]]<br />
* ''[[Chakra (1981 film)|Chakra]]'' (1981) directed by Rabindra Dharmaraj<br />
* ''[[Kalyug (1981 film)|Kalyug]]'' (1981) directed by [[Shyam Benegal]]<br />
* ''[[Umrao Jaan (1981 film)|Umrao Jaan]]'' (1981) directed by [[Muzaffar Ali]]<br />
* ''Tumhari Kassam'' (1978)<br />
* ''[[Mukti (1977 film)|Mukti]]'' (1977)<br />
* ''[[Shatranj Ke Khilari]]'' (1977)<br />
* ''Trimurti'' (1974)<br />
* ''[[Aaj Ki Taaza Khabar]]'' (1973)<br />
* ''Jangal Mein Mangal'' (1972)<br />
* ''[[Piya Ka Ghar]]'' (1972) directed by Basu Chatterjee<br />
* ''[[Paraya Dhan]]'' (1971)<br />
* ''[[Balika Badhu (1967 film)|Balika Badhu]]'' (1967)<br />
* ''[[Chiriyakhana]]'' (1967) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''[[Pather Panchali]]'' (1955) directed by Satyajit Ray<br />
* ''[[The River (1951 film)|The River]]'' (1951) directed by [[Jean Renoir]]<br />
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===Set Decorator===<br />
* ''[[Balika Badhu (1967 film)|Balika Badhu]]'' (1967)<br />
* ''[[Chiriyakhana]]'' (1967)<br />
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===Miscellaneous Crew===<br />
[[Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures]] (1978)<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb name|0151519}}<br />
* [http://www.upperstall.com/people/bansi-chandragupta Bansi Chanragupta] at Upperstall<br />
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