Scientist
director
producer
screenwriter
Bedabrata Pain (Template:Lang-bn; born 27 March 1963) is an Indian scientist turned film director,[1][2] producer and screenwriter.[3] Bedabrata Pain was also a member of the team that invented the CMOS image sensor.[4] Bedabrata Pain has also won National Film Award for Best Debut Film of a Director for Chittagong.[5][6]
Biography
Early life and education
Bedabrata's father was born in Dhaka and his mother came from Faridpur. Bedabrata Pain did his schooling in St. Lawrence High School in Calcutta & South Point High School and ranked 3rd in Madhyamik Exam (West Bengal State Board - 10th Standard Exam) and 5th in Higher Secondary Exam (West Bengal State Board - 12th Standard Exam). He then studied Electronics & Electrical Comm. Engg. (ECE) in IIT Kharagpur (1982–1986),[7][8][9] He got an Ivy League scholarship.[10] Later he went to Columbia University, New York and received his M.S and PhD in Applied physics in 1992. His future wife Shonali Bose also did her master's degree in Political Science from Columbia University.
Academic career
In 1993, Bedabrata Pain joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and later managed JPL's image sensor and focal-plane technology research and advanced development. Since 1993, he was associated with NASA. Concurrent with his NASA work, he taught courses on CMOS imaging at UCLA, chaired international conferences, and was the invited speaker at several conferences. He has published over 150 technical papers, and won several awards, including the Lew-Allen Award for Excellence.[11]
Invention
In 1990s, Bedabrata Pain was part of a team that invented the active pixel sensor technology that produced the world's smallest camera and has been inducted to the US Space Technology Hall of Fame.[12][13][14] Now it is used from cell-phone cameras to movie cameras (such as those used by RED) to those in space telescopes.[15][16]
Achievements and awards
Bedabrata Pain had worked for NASA for 15 years as senior research scientist before quitting NASA in December 2008.[17][18][19] Pain has 87 invention patents to his credit.[20][21]
Personal life
Bedabrata Pain was married to Shonali Bose.[22] Now he is based in Los Angeles.[23] Bedabrata and Shonali had two sons - Ishan and Vivan. They lost their son Ishan, who died at a young age in an accident on 3 September 2010.[24][25][26][27][28][29]
Film career
Bedabrata was the executive producer of the award-winning film Amu in 2005.[30] He was the principal researcher for the documentary called Lifting the Veil on the impact of globalisation in India, and the writer of the book titled 'Behind the events in Kashmir'. He directed critically acclaimed film Chittagong starring Manoj Bajpai,[31] Vega Tamotia,[32] Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Barry John and Dibyendu Bhattacharya.[33] Bedabrata, shot the film Chittagong with the same digital imaging technology that he with other NASA scientists had invented.[34]
Bedabrata undertook a 10,000 km journey, alongside young physicists Rajashik Tarafder and Sristy Agrawal, to Mid-West USA to document the lives of farmers for his upcoming film Déjà vu[35].
Filmography
| Year | Film | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Amu | Hindi | Producer |
| 2012 | Chittagong | Hindi | Producer, director, writer, Won National Film Award for Best Debut Film of a Director[36] |
| Upcoming | Déjà vu | English | Creator |
See also
- Active pixel sensor
- California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Center for Detectors
- Space Technology Hall of Fame
References
- ↑ Small films, big potential.
- ↑ I would call it a homecoming: Bedabrata Pain. Mid-day.com(11 September 2012).
- ↑ Will and a Way(12 April 2012).
- ↑ Which parent would want to cremate their child?.
- ↑ Hindi films suffering from dearth of talent: Bedabrata Pain(29 December 2013).
- ↑ Bedabrata Pain and Barun Chanda take part in discourse on world cinema in Kolkata - Times of India. The Times of India.
- ↑ Marathi, Bengali filmmakers are doing things right: Bedabrata Pain. The Times of India(27 August 2013).
- ↑ IIT Foundation [ Member Details ]. Iitfoundation.org.
- ↑ https://login.iitkgp.org/login?service=http://www.iitkgp.org/events/184&gateway=true Template:Dead link
- ↑ Template:Cite magazine
- ↑ Bedabrata Pain (Director of Chittagong): From NASA and CMOS Sensors to Passionate Film-Making. Washington Bangla Radio USA(12 October 2012).
- ↑ Active Pixel Sensor. Space Foundation.
- ↑ Bedabrata Pain's journey from a NASA scientist to a filmmaker. Ibnlive.in.com(8 October 2012).
- ↑ 'Chittagong': We managed to capture the understated and cerebral Bengali heroism. Ibnlive.in.com(10 October 2012).
- ↑ Pelican Imaging Comes Out of Stealth Mode.Template:Dead link
- ↑ Grain to pixel: The digital new wave. NDTV.com(15 October 2012).
- ↑ Reaching for the stars. Hindustan Times(11 April 2012).
- ↑ News: India News, Latest Bollywood News, Sports News, Business & Political News, National & International News. The Times of India.
- ↑ 'Chittagong' has a sense of victory, says director Bedabrata Pain – Movies News – Bollywood – ibnlive. Ibnlive.in.com(12 April 2012).
- ↑ I had to tell the Chittagong story: Bedabrata Pain. The Times of India(7 September 2012).
- ↑ Bedabrata Pain: From NASA to Chittagong. The Times of India(7 October 2012).
- ↑ IITKGP Foundation. iitfoundation.org.
- ↑ People Search, Find People, Search Public Records. PeopleFinders.
- ↑ Chittagong maker still mourns for son – The Times of India. The Times of India.
- ↑ 'Chittagong' director prepares to fight lawsuit. The Times of India(28 August 2012).
- ↑ Pre-Partition saga Chittagong finally bailed out.
- ↑ Chittagong to release Template:Dead link
- ↑ NRIs lose case against US firm on son's death – India Global News – IBNLive. Ibnlive.in.com.
- ↑ 'Chittagong' director loses son's death case in LA court. The Times of India(11 September 2012).
- ↑ Amu (2005). IMDb.
- ↑ Review: Aarakshan is disappointing.
- ↑ Template:Cite magazine
- ↑ Bedabrata Pain's Chittagong gets a new poster(4 April 2012).
- ↑ My film offers different take on Chittagong uprising: director.Template:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore
- ↑ How corporates ate up America's small farms - Times of India. The Times of India. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
- ↑ Template:Cite press release