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Known for
Actor
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
1912-11-30
Location
West Bengal, India
Edit pageAmiya Chakraborty
Biography
Amiya Chakravarty (30 November 1912 – 6 March 1957) was an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer, who was the leading film director in Hindi cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. He is noted for films like Daag (1952), Patita (1953), and Seema (1955) 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 the 1944 film Jwar Bhata (1944 film). Chakravarty also produced and directed Daag (1952 film) 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 (née Shastri) wife of Rajendra Shankar, elder brother of Sitar maestro, Ravi Shankar.
