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Basu Bhattacharya
Movie director
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Basu Bhattacharya was a Hindi film director, most famous for his 1966 film Teesri Kasam, starring Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman, which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in 1967; he also produced Sparsh in 1985 starring Shabana Azmi and Naseeruddin Shah, which won the Filmfare Best Movie Award and the most famous box office hit and critically acclaimed film directed by him remains Avishkaar starring Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore which received five stars in Bollywood Guide "Collections" and Rajesh Khanna received Filmfare Best Actor Award in 1975. In 1979, He produced Sparsh, which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. In 1981 he was a member of the jury at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. He started his career in 1958 by assisting, Bimal Roy in films like, Madhumati and Sujata and later married, Bimal Roy's daughter, Rinki Bhattacharya, much to Bimal Roy's disapproval. This created a rift between him and his mentor. The couple had a son Aditya Bhattacharya, and two daughters: Chimmu and Anwesha Arya. Later after much domestic abuse, his wife Rinki moved out in 1983, and the couple formally divorced in 1990. 
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1934 in Kolkata  /  Died:   Aug 27th, 1997
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