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| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], [[India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|11|07|1970|6|28|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = Kolkata, India<br />
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| occupation = Director<br />
| years_active = 2003–2015<br />
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'''Bappaditya Bandopadhyay''' or '''Bappaditya Banerjee''' ({{lang-bn|বাপ্পাদিত্য ব্যানার্জী}}; 28 August 1970 – 7 November 2015) was an Indian director and poet. <br />
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== Career ==<br />
Bandopadhyay was the recipient of the Most Promising Director award for the year 2003, by the BFJA ([[Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards|Bengal Film Journalists' Association]]). His second feature film ''Silpantar'' (Colours of Hunger) was premiered at the [[List of film festivals in Europe|Sofia International Film Festival]], [[Bulgaria]]. The film was selected in the competitive section of the International Film Festival Bratislava in 2003. It was the only Indian film other than ''[[Devdas]]'' selected at the 2003 [[Helsinki Film Festival|Helsinki International Film Festival]]. [[Debashree Roy]] won the Kalakar Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film.<br />
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Bappaditya Bandopadhyay’s first feature film ''[[Sampradan]]'' (The Offering of the Daughter) was selected in the competitive section of the 6th Dhaka International Film Festival, 2000. The film won three major awards in the categories of Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Female Playback Singer in the BFJA Awards that year. It also won the Dishari Award in the category of Best Music Director.<br />
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His third feature film ''[[Devaki (2005 film)|Devaki]]'', starring [[Perizaad Zorabian]] and [[Suman Ranganathan]], two Bollywood actresses, in English and Hindi was released in 2006. The film was selected and screened at the Indian Osean section of the 7th [[Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema|Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival]]. The film was in the competition section in the [[Temecula Valley International Film Festival]] and the [[Idaho International Film Festival]]. It also won the Best Feature Film Award at the Asheville Film Festival.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://ibnlive.in.com/news/devaki-promotes-tale-of-her-trauma/2652-8.html?from=search-relatedstories |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121006140643/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/devaki-promotes-tale-of-her-trauma/2652-8.html?from=search-relatedstories |url-status= dead |archive-date= 6 October 2012 |title= evaki promotes tale of her trauma |author= Sunayana Nadkarni |date= 22 December 2005 |work= IBN |access-date=2 March 2010}}</ref><br />
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''[[Kantatar]]'', the fourth feature film directed by Bandopadhyay was selected in the Asian competition of the 7th Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival. The film was also screened at the [[Raindance Film Festival]] in [[London]].<br />
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Bandopadhyay also directed a television serial, ''Anandanagarir kathakata'', on the architectural history of [[Kolkata]] for the Bengali television channel Alpha Bangla. His documentary on the tribal masks was broadcast by [[Doordarshan]].<br />
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His film, ''Kagojer Bou'', based on the novel of the same name by [[Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay]], released in 2010.<br />
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He was a long time associate of the editor Dipak Mandal with whom he worked 2009 to 2015.<br />
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Bandopadhyay was also a poet. His published works include ''[[Pokader Atmiyasajan]]'' (Friends and Relatives of the Insects). He wrote regularly on the various aspects of modern cinema.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kantatar.tripod.com/id2.html|title=Favorite Links|publisher=kantatar.tripod.com|access-date=25 October 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408184421/http://kantatar.tripod.com/id2.html|archive-date=8 April 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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=== Death ===<br />
Bappaditya died of multiple organ failure on 7 November 2015 in Kolkata, aged 45.<ref>{{cite news|title=Film-maker Bappaditya Bandopadhyay passes away|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/Film-maker-Bappaditya-Bandopadhyay-passes-away/articleshow/49712192.cms|access-date=10 November 2015|work=The Times of India|date=8 November 2015}}</ref><br />
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==Filmography==<br />
The following is the list of films directed by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay. For many of these movies, Bappaditya Bandopadhyay is also credited for the story and screenplay:<br />
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===Director===<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Year !! Film !! Language !! Cast<br />
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| 1999|| ''Sampradan'' || [[Bengali language|Bengali]] || Anasua Majumder, [[Sabyasachi Chakrabarty|Sabyasachi Chakraborty]], Joy Sengupta, [[Papiya Adhikari]], [[Indrani Haldar]]<br />
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| 2002 || ''Silpantar'' || Bengali|| Subhasish Mukherjee, [[Debashree Roy]], Nemai Ghosh<br />
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| 2005|| ''[[Devaki (2005 film)|Devaki]]'' || Hindi|| [[Perizaad Zorabian]], [[Suman Ranganathan]], Ram Kapoor<br />
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| 2006|| ''[[Kantatar]]'' || Bengali|| [[Sreelekha Mitra]], [[Rudranil Ghosh]], Sudip Mukherjee, Nemai Ghosh<br />
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| 2007 || ''[[Kaal (2007 film)|Kaal]]'' || Bengali || Chandreyee Ghosh, Sandhya Shetty, Dola Chakraborty, [[Samapika Debnath]], [[Rudranil Ghosh]] <br />
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| 2009 || ''[[Houseful (2009 Bengali Film)|Houseful]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.calcuttaweb.com/cinema/report/house_full.shtml |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-07-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420120402/http://www.calcuttaweb.com/cinema/report/house_full.shtml |archive-date=20 April 2013 }}</ref> || Bengali|| [[Prosenjit Chatterjee]], Rimjhim Gupta, Nitya ganguly, Rwita Datta Chakraborty, [[Sreelekha Mitra]]<br />
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| 2011 || ''[[Kagojer Bou]]'' || Bengali || [[Paoli Dam]], Rahul, Priyanka, Rimjhim, Joy Sengupta. [[Bratya Basu]], [[Gargi Roy Chowdhury]], Nandini Ghoshal<br />
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|2012 || ''[[Elar Char Adhyay]]'' || Bengali || Indraneil, [[Paoli Dam]], Dipankar Dey, [[Barun Chanda]], Rudranil Ghosh, [[Arunima Ghosh]], Nitya Ganguly, [[Vikram Chatterjee]]<br />
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|2013 || [[Nayika Sangbad(2013)]] || Bengali || Arunima Ghosh, [[Indraneil Sengupta]], Mumtaz Sorcer, [[Locket Chatterjee]]<br />
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|2016 || ''[[Sohra Bridge]]'' || Bengali || Pratik Sen, Niharika Singh, [[Barun Chanda]], [[Moumita Mitra]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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