Subhash Dutta

Subhash Dutta was born on 9 February 1930 in Dinajpur. He left for Bombay in the early fifties to learn cinema, where he painted film posters, a trade he later practised in Dhaka, then made his screen debut in a comic role before moving on to directing in 1964; his first film received second prize at the Frankfurt Asian festival in 1965. Arrested by Pakistani soldiers in 1971, he was released by a captain who had recognised him. A holder of the Ekushey Padak since 1999, he died at home in Dhaka on 16 November 2012.

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• Cinemaঅরুণোদয়ের অগ্নিসাক্ষীSubhash Dutta · 1972Cinema