Tarun Majumdar Biography and Personal Profile

 Tarun Majumdar is an Bengali film director who is known for his work on family drama and that too based on village side. Most favourite outdoor shotting location of Tarun Majumdar was Birbhum. He received four National Awards, seven BFJA Awards, five Filmfare Awards and an Anandalok Award. In 1990, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award.

Tarun Majumdar received his first National Award for the 1962 Bengali film Kancher Swarga. Tarun Majumdar also garnered wide critical acclamation for his directorial ventures such as Palatak (1963), Nimantran (1971), Sansar Simante (1975) and Ganadevata (1978). Tarun Majumdar received a National Award, a BFJA Award and a Filmfare Award for Nimantran (1971). Ganadevata (1979) won him a National Award and a Filmfare Award.

Tarun Majumdar made blockbusters such as Balika Badhu (1967), Kuheli (1971), Shriman Prithviraj (1973), Fuleswari (1974), Dadar Kirti (1980), Bhalobasa Bhalobasa (1985) and Apan Amar Apan (1990).

Tarun Majumdar used to work on plots where characters were just like next door neighbor. Sandhya Roy, Bhanu Bandopadhyay, Soumitra Chatterjee, Ruma Guha Thakurata, Anup Kumar, Samit Bhanja, Mahua Roychowdhury, Tapas Pal suited best in his films. Songs in Tarun Majumdar's film are extra attraction. He used Rabindra Sangeet in his films in perfect situation.

Personal Profile of Tarun Majumdar

Date of Birth of Tarun Majumdar: 8 January 1931 in Bogra, undivided Bengal, British India. 

Father of Tarun Majumdar: Birendranath Majumdar, a freedom fighter. 

Education of Tarun Majumdar: Was a student of St. Paul's Cathedral Mission College and Scottish Church College, he later studied chemistry at Calcutta University. 

Death of Tarun Majumdar: 04 July 2022

Filmography

Year	Title	Cast
1959	Chaowa Pawa	Uttam Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Tulsi Chakraborty
1960	Smriti Tuku Thak	Suchitra Sen, Asit Baran, Chhabi Biswas
1962	Kancher Swarga	Dilip Mukherjee, Anil Chatterjee
1963	Palatak	Anup Kumar, Sandhya Roy, Ruma Guha Thakurta
1965	Alor Pipasa	Pahadi Sanyal, Basanta Choudhury, Sandhya Roy
	Ektuku Basa	Soumitra Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy, Bhanu Bandyopadhyay, Jahor Roy
1967	Balika Badhu	Moushumi Chatterjee
1969	Rahgir	Biswajit Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy, Shashikala
1971	Nimantran	Sandhya Roy, Anup Kumar, Kali Banerjee
1971	Kuheli	Biswajit Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Sandhya Roy, Sumita Sanyal
1973	Shriman Prithviraj	Ayan Banerjee, Mahua Roychoudhury, Utpal Dutt, Sandhya Roy
1974	Thagini	Sandhya Roy, Ajitesh Bandyopadhyay, Rabi Ghosh, Chinmoy Roy
1974	Fuleswari	Sandhya Roy, Samit Bhanja
1974	Jadi Jantem	Uttam Kumar, Soumitra Chatterjee, Supriya Devi
1975	Sansar Simante	Soumitra Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy
1976	Balika Badhu (Hindi)	Sachin, Rajni Sharma, Kajri, Asrani, A. K. Hangal
1978	Ganadevata	Soumitra Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy, Sumitra Mukherjee, Madhabi Mukherjee
1980	Dadar Kirti	Tapas Paul, Mahua Roychoudhury, Sandhya Roy, Anup Kumar
1981	Shahar Theke Dure	Sandhya Roy, Samit Bhanja, Bhanu Bandopadhyay
1982	Meghmukti	Utpal Dutt, Biswajit Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy, Debashree Roy
1982	Khelar Putul	Soumitra Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy
1984	Amar Geeti	Soumitra Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy, Biswajit Chatterjee
1984	Aranya Aamar
1985	Bhalobasa Bhalobasa	Tapas Paul, Debashree Roy, Utpal Dutt
1986	Pathbhola	Prosenjit Chatterjee, Tapas Paul, Abhishek Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy
1988	Agaman	Sandhya Roy, Debashree Roy, Tapas Paul
1988	Parasmoni	Tapas Paul, Satabdi Roy, Santu Mukhopadhyay
1990	Apan Aamar Apan	Tapas Paul, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Satabdi Roy
1991	Path-O-Prasad	Utpal Dutt, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy
1991	Sajani Go Sajani	Mahasweta Ray, Utpal Dutt
1994	Katha Chhilo	Tapas Paul, Mahasweta Ray
2003	Alo	Rituparna Sengupta, Abhishek Chatterjee
2005	Bhalobasar Onek Naam	Gourab Chatterjee, Megha Mukherjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Moushumi Chatterjee, Tapas Paul
2007	Chander Bari	Soham Chakraborty, Koel Mallick, Ranjit Mallick, Rituparna Sengupta
2018	Bhalobashar Bari	Silajit, Rituparna Sengupta
2018	Adhikar