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MOHAN
(Mohan, The Simpleton)
[puppet film]
1965/16mm/35mm/497.74, mts, 18 mins/Hindi
Director/Script : Ajoy
Kumar Chakravarty
Camera : R.Junnarkar
Editor : R.Junnarkar
Music : Abihdas Gupta |
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Director's
Biography
Ajoy Kumar Charavarty
Ajoy Kumar Chakravarty
A graduate in Fine Arts from Vishwa Bharati University,
Ajay Kumar Chakravorty worked as a visualiser with
Godrej and Boyce in Bombay. Cinema became important
to him as founder-menber of Anandam Films Society.
Later, a 1949 Czecholovakian puppet film triggered
his ambition to learn animation film making 1961 saw
the first animated puppet film to be made in India
"Nanche Munhe Sitare" directed by Chakravarty
for which he won the National Award. 1974, his film
"Alibaba" agged the same prestigious award.
In 1979, Chakravarty's animation film "Cable
Length" won a Bronze Antenna at the International
Telecommunication Conference Zurich. In 1982, his
film "Raju and Tinku" won another National
Award. Chakravarty has made around nine animated films
based on fairy tales, mythological themes and historical
subjects.
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