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Amiya Chakravarty
Indian film director, screenwriter and producer (1912-1957) · India · On the map · Directors · Died at 44
Amiya Chakravarty was an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer, who was leading film director in Hindi cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. He is noted for films like Daag (1952), Patita (1953), and Seema (1955) for which he won the 4th Filmfare Award for Best Story.
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Dekh Kabira RoyaFilm, 1957Director, Writer
Kath PutliFilm, 1957Director, Writer1955
SeemaFilm, Director, Writer1954
BadshahFilm, Director, Producer1953
PatitaFilm, Director
ShahenshahFilm, 1953Director1952
DaagFilm, Director1951
BadalFilm, Director, Writer1944
Jwar BhataFilm, Director1942
BasantFilm, Director, Writer1941
AnjanFilm, Director, Writer1940
BandhanFilm, Writer1912Born30 November 1912People around Amiya
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Dilip Kumar Amiya directed Jwar Bhata and Daag- Usha Kiran Amiya directed Daag and Patita
Madhubala Amiya directed Basant (1942)
Devika Rani Amiya directed Anjaan (1941)
Dev Anand Amiya directed Patita (1953)
Nutan Amiya directed Seema (1955)
Nimmi Amiya directed Daag (1952)
Balraj Sahni Amiya directed Seema (1955)
Lalita Pawar Amiya directed Patita (1953)
Mumtaz Shanti Amiya directed Basant (1942)
Ruma Guha Thakurta Amiya directed Jwar Bhata (1944)- G. P. Sippy Produced Shahenshah (1953)
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Chakravarty is also credited along with Devika Rani for discovering Dilip Kumar, whom he gave his first break in 1944 film Jwar Bhata. Chakravarty also produced and directed, for Mars & Movies Productions which he had launched after leaving Bombay Talkies, the film Daag in 1952 for which Dilip Kumar won his first ever Filmfare Award for Best Actor.
