Sachin Bhowmick
Biography
Sachin Bhowmick was born on July 17, 1930, in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. He was a writer and director, known for Koi... Mil Gaya (2003), Brahmachari (1968) and Karan Arjun (1995). He was previously married to Kalpana. He died on April 12, 2011 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Sachin Bhowmick (17 July 1930 – 12 April 2011) was an Indian Hindi film writer and director. Writing was his main work and he wrote stories or screenplays for over 94 films. He is best remembered for directing the light romantic black comedy classic Raja Rani (1973).
He was also a regular contributor to Ultorath, a Bengali magazine on cinema. Due to the Bengali pronunciation of his surname Bhaumick, we will find his surname spelled as Bhowmick on numerous sites.
His name served as the inspiration for an eponymous character played by Kharaj Mukherjee in the 2018 romance Dhadak.
He started his writing career with the screenplay for Mohan Segal's Nargis starrer Lajwanti in 1958.
He married and later divorced actress Kalpana. In 1971 he married again. He was married to the daughter of the musician DM Tagore, her name being Bansari Bhaumick, and soon after they had a son Sandeep Bhaumick.
In 2003 Bhaumick filed a defamation case against Barbara Taylor Bradford after she had sued him for copyright infringement regarding a TV soap opera.
