Amiya Chakravarty (director)


Amiya Chakravarty was a Bengali Indian film director, screenwriter and producer, who was leading film director in Hindi cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. He is noted for films like Daag, Patita, and Seema for which he won the 4th Filmfare Award for Best Story. Chakravarty is also credited along with Devika Rani for discovering Dilip Kumar, whom he gave his first break in 1944 film Jwar Bhata.Chakravarty also produced and directed Daag in 1952 for which Dilip Kumar won his first ever Filmfare Award for Best Actor.
He was married to Saraswati Shastri a.k.a. Kamala, younger sister of Lakshmi Shankar wife of Rajendra Shankar, elder brother of Sitar maestro, Ravi Shankar.

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