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Filmmaker · India

Modhu Bose

Died in 1969

Modhu Bose was born in Calcutta on 12 February 1900, the son of the geologist Pramatha Nath Bose and, through his mother, grandson of the historian Romesh Chunder Dutt. A pupil at Shantiniketan and then at Vidyasagar College, he assisted Himansu Rai and Franz Osten, worked in Munich and London, founded the Calcutta Amateur Players troupe in 1927 and married the dancer Sadhona Bose. He directed films in Calcutta and then in Bombay, published his memoirs in 1967 and died in 1969.

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