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{{Short description|Indian film director and art director}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=September 2016}}
{{Infobox person
|image =
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| name = Biren Nag
| birth_date = 1922
| birth_place = Mymensingh, India
| death_date = {{death date and age|1964|1922|df=y}}
| death_place = Kolkata, India
| othername =
| occupation = [[Film director]], [[Art director]]
| yearsactive =
}}

'''Biren Nag''' (1922–1964) was an acclaimed [[India]]n [[film director]] and art director in [[Hindi cinema]]. Prior to taking up direction himself, he served as Art Director for four of the most beautiful films shot in Mumbai in the late 1950s and early 1960s: ''[[Pyaasa]]'' (1957) ''[[Kala Pani (1958 film)|Kala Pani]]'' (1958) ''[[Chaudhvin Ka Chand]]'' (1960); and ''[[Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam]]'' (1962). He won a 1960 [[Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction]] for his work on ''[[Chaudhvin Ka Chand]]'' (1960).

In 1962 he directed his first film, ''[[Bees Saal Baad (1962 film)|Bees Saal Baad]]'' a noirish ghost story also starring Waheeda Rehman and Biswajeet, which garnered him a [[Filmfare Best Director Award]] nomination in 1963.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://deep750.googlepages.com/FilmfareAwards.pdf |title=Filmfare Nominees and Winners |access-date=16 August 2009 |archive-date=12 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612065210/http://deep750.googlepages.com/FilmfareAwards.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The film was the top grosser at the box office in 1962, a super hit doing gross business worth Rs. 3, 00, 00,000{{clarify|date=May 2019|reason=Number is not formatted correctly}} and net business worth Rs. 1, 50, 00,000.{{clarify|date=May 2019|reason=Number is not formatted correctly}} He also directed ''[[Kohra (1964 film)|Kohraa]]'' in 1964, repeating the lead pair of his debut. However, he died soon after the film was released.<ref name=toi>{{cite web | title = The mystery of 'Kohraa' | url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/The-mystery-of-Kohraa/articleshow/42595841.cms |author=Roshmila Bhattacharya|date= 16 September 2014| accessdate = 2014-09-22 | work = The Times of India}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable"
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!Film(as director) !! Year of release !! Other notes
|-
| [[Kohra (1964 film)|''Kohraa'']] || 1964 || Retelling of Du Maurier's [[Rebecca (novel)|novel]] and later Hitchcock's film ''[[Rebecca (1940 film)|Rebecca]]''
|-
| [[Bees Saal Baad (1962 film)|''Bees Saal Baad'']] || 1962 || Nominated-Filmfare Best Director Award. In the film, the opening credits show his name as Biren Naug.
|}
(Both the films were produced by [[Hemanta Mukherjee]]. He was also the music director and the lead playback singer in both of them)

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Film(as art director) !! Year of release !! Other notes
|-
| ''[[Tere Ghar Ke Samne]]'' || 1963 || As Biren Naug
|-
| [[Hum Dono (1961 film)|''Hum Dono'']] || 1962 || As Biren Naug
|-
| ''[[Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam]]'' || 1962 || As Biren Naug
|-
| ''[[Chaudhvin Ka Chand]]'' || 1961 || As Biren Naug; Won - [[Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction]]
|-
| ''[[Aakhri Dao]]'' || 1958 || -
|-
|[[Detective (1958 film)|''Detective'']]|| 1958 || As Biren Naug
|-
| ''Life Sentence''|| 1958 || As Biren Naug
|-
| [[Talaq (1958 film)|''Talaaq'']] || 1958 || As Biren Naug
|-
| ''[[Pyaasa]]''|| 1957 || As Biren Naug
|-
| ''[[Nau Do Gyarah]]'' || 1957 || As Biren Naug
|-
| [[Basant Bahar (film)|''Basant Bahar'']] || 1956 || As Biren Naug
|-
| [[C.I.D. (1956 film)|''C.I.D.'']] || 1956 || As Biren Naug
|-
| [[Mem Sahib]]|| 1956 || As Biren Naug
|-
| ''<nowiki/>'42''|| 1951 || -
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb name|id=0619048|name=Biren Nag}}

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[[Category:Hindi-language film directors]]
[[Category:Indian art directors]]
[[Category:1922 births]]
[[Category:1964 deaths]]
[[Category:Film directors from Kolkata]]
[[Category:Filmfare Awards winners]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian people]]

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