Veteran Bengali director Tarun Majumdar died on July 4, 2024 (Monday). The 91-year-old director was hospitalized at the state-run hospital, SSKM, Kolkata.
In 1985, Tarun Majumdar debuted as a director in the film industry with Alor Pipasha.
Some of Tarun Majumdar’s best works include Smriti Tuku Thak (1960), Palatak (1963), Kuheli (1971), Shriman Prithviraj (1972), Balika Badhu (1976), Ganadevata (1978), and Dadar Kirti (1980). During the decades of his career, he has worked with many notable actors such as Suchitra Sen, Chhabi Biswas, Uttam Kumar, Sandhya Roy, and Soumitra Chatterjee to name a few.
Tarun Majumdar received Padma Shri in the year 1990 and has won five Filmfare awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award in the year 2024. Talking about his films, earlier in 2015, Tarun Majumdar had said, “I have always been intrigued by values and relationships. I think the quest of a person is to become a better human being. I think I understand the middle-class environment better and hence interpreted it in different ways on celluloid.”
