In 1959, the Federation of Film Societies of India was set up at the initiative of Das Gupta, Satyajit Ray, Mrs. Vijaya Mulay, Mrs. Ammu Swaminathan, Robert Hawkins, Diptendu Pramanick, Abul Hassan and A. Roychowdhury.
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Das Gupta is well known for his essays and translations of Rabindranath Tagore, Manik Bandopadhyay and Jibanananda Das.
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Casting included Aparna Sen, Rachana Banerjee, Anusree Das and Pijush Ganguly, among others.
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In 1944 he married, Supriya Das, a daughter of Brahmananda Dashgupta, brother of poet Jibanananda Das.
Buddhadeb Dasgupta | Shamik Dasgupta | Chidananda Dasgupta | M. Chidananda Murthy | Asim Dasgupta |
They include Martin Kirkman, one with the initials S.D., Puroshuttam Das together with Shamosri Das, P. Lal, Mary Lago in collaboration with Tarun Gupta, Chidananda Dasgupta, Ananda Lal, Clinton B. Seely, Sukanta Chaudhuri, Anupam Banerjee, Hayat Saif, Faizul Latif Chowdhury, Fakrul Alam, Anjana Basu, Joe Winter, Ron.
There were three Vice Presidents (Ammu Swaminathan, Robert E Hawkins & S Gopalan); Joint Secretaries were Vijaya Mulay and Chidananda Dasgupta and the Joint Treasurers were Diptendu Pramanick and Abul Hasan.