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    Basu Chatterjee

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  1. Basu Chatterjee ( 10 January 1927 – 4 June 2020) was an Indian film director and screenwriter in Hindi Cinema.Through the 1970s and 1980s, he became associated with what came to be known as middle cinema or middle-of-the-road cinema filmmakers, such as Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Bhattacharya, whom he assisted on Teesri Kasam (1966). Like ...

  2. Basu Chatterjee was born on 10 January 1930 in Ajmer, British India. He was a director and writer, known for Sara Akash (1969), Rajnigandha (1974) and Swami (1977). He died on 4 June 2020 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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  3. Jun 4, 2020 · Legendary filmmaker Basu Chatterjee, who directed simple Bollywood romances and comedies, has died aged 93. Chatterjee's films were known for telling stories of regular middle-class men and...

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    • Piya Ka Ghar (1972) Chatterji’s brilliant debut film Sara Akash depicted the conflicts of a newly-wed couple. In Piya Ka Ghar, Chatterjee focused on one of the major sources of stress for a couple living in a joint family in Mumbai in the 1970s: the lack of privacy.
    • Rajanigandha (1974) In Rajnigandha, an job offer takes Deepa (Vidya Sinha in her debut) to Mumbai, where she meets her old college sweetheart Navin (Dinesh Thakur).
    • Chitchor (1976) A misunderstanding about his position in the organisational heirarchy brings Vinod (Amol Palekar) close to Geeta (Zarina Wahab) and her family.
    • Chhoti Si Baat (1976) Arun (Amol Palekar) is attracted to Prabha (Vidya Sinha) who works in a nearby office, but he is too shy to make the first move. Arun also has to fight off his competitor, the flamboyant Nagesh (Asrani).
  4. Jun 4, 2020 · The Ajmer-born filmmaker, a master of middle-class minutiae, passed away in Mumbai on Thursday. He was 90. “He hadn't been keeping well for quite a while due to old age problems and died at his residence,” Ashoke Pandit, president, Indian Film & Television Directors' Association told PTI.

  5. Jun 4, 2020 · Basu Chatterjee (1927-2020): A pictorial tribute to ace filmmaker. Advertisement. Chatterjee’s gift was making people realise that you did not need something fantastic to be happy. Your routine everyday life had its share of smiles too, and something extraordinary did not need to happen to make you smile.

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  7. Jun 4, 2020 · Basu Chatterjee, whose four-decade career yielded some of Hindi cinema’s most beloved films, died this morning at his Mumbai home, of age-related ailments. He was 90.

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