Prabhat Roy

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{{Infobox person
| name = Prabhat Roy
| native_name = প্রভাত রায়
| native_name_lang = bn
| birth_place = [[Jamshedpur|Jamshedpore]], [[Jharkhand]], [[India]]
| birth_date = {{Birth year|1946}}
| nationality = [[India]]n
| occupation = [[Filmmaking|Filmmaker]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/cosmic-sex-was-refused-screening-at-nandan-for-aesthetic-reasons-says-director-prabhat-roy/articleshow/52894788.cms|title='Cosmic Sex' was refused screening at Nandan for aesthetic reasons, says director Prabhat Roy|website=The Times of India|language=en|url-status=live|access-date=7 March 2020}}</ref>
| notable_works = {{ubl|''Shwet Paatharer Thala''|''Sandhyatara''|''[[Lathi (1996 film)|Lathi]]''}}
| awards = {{ubl|[[National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare|National Award]]|BFJA Award}}
}}

'''Prabhat Roy''' ({{lang-bn|প্রভাত রায়}}; born in Jamshedpore, in 1946) is a former [[India]]n director who is known for his work in [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali cinema]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinestaan.com/people/prabhat-roy-80775|title=Prabhat Roy movies, filmography, biography and songs - Cinestaan.com|website=Cinestaan|access-date=2019-08-14}}</ref><ref>
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He received several awards including two [[National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare|National Awards]] and [[BFJA Awards]].

He began his career as an assistant director in the early 1970s. His directorial venture ''Pratidan'' (1983) was a box office success.<ref>
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==Awards==
{|class="wikitable"
!Award
!Year
!Category
!Film
!Result
!{{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
!scope="row" rowspan="2"|[[National Film Awards|National Award]]
|1993
|rowspan="2"|[[National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare|Best Feature Film on Family Welfare]]
|''Shwet Pathorer Thala''
|{{won}}
|<ref name="40thaward">{{cite web|url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm40thNFAAward.aspx|title=40th National Film Awards|publisher=[[International Film Festival of India]]|access-date=14 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602174839/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm40thNFAAward.aspx|archive-date=2 June 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
|-
|1997
|''[[Lathi (1996 film)|Lathi]]''
|{{won}}
|<ref name="44thaward">{{cite web|url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm44thNFAAward.aspx|title=44th National Film Awards|publisher=[[International Film Festival of India]]|access-date=14 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140505172151/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm44thNFAAward.aspx|archive-date=5 May 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards|BFJA Award]]
| rowspan="2" |1997
|Best Actor in a Leading Role
|[[Victor Banerjee]]
|{{won}}
|
|-
|Best Art Direction
|Kartik Bose
|{{won}}
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfjaaward.com/award-winners.php?year=1997 |title=1997 award winners |work=bfjaaward.com |accessdate=2015-04-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062508/http://www.bfjaaward.com/award-winners.php?year=1997 |archivedate= 4 March 2016 }}</ref>
|}

*BFJA AWARD
*ANANDOLOK AWARD
*Lux ETV Award
* Kalakar Awards<ref name="List of Kalakar award winners">{{cite web|title=List of Kalakar award winners|url=http://kalakarawards.co/images/pastawardeeslist.pdf|publisher=Kalakar awards|accessdate=2 October 2012}}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==Filmography==

=== As a director ===
{|class="wikitable"
!rowspan="2"|Year
!colspan="2"|Title
!rowspan="2"|Cast
!rowspan="2"|Note
!rowspan="2"|{{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
!Feature film
!TV series
|-
|1983
|''[[Protidan]]''
|
|[[Sharmila Tagore]], [[Ranjit Mullick]], [[Victor Banerjee]], [[Nasiruddin Shah]],[[Lily Chakravarty]],[[Anamika Saha]]
|
|
|-
|1985
|''Bandhan Anjana''
|
|[[Sharmila Tagore]]
|
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/bandhan-anjana/|title=Bandhan Anjana|last=|first=|date=|website=[[Bollywood Hungama]]|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=12 March 2020}}</ref>
|-
|1986
|''[[Zindagani]]''
|
|[[Mithun Chakraborty]] , [[Rati Agnihotri]] , [[Raakhee]]
|
|<ref>{{Cite web|title=Zindagani|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-MG6h0NQjE|website=YouTube|url-status=live|access-date=15 March 2020}}</ref>
|-
|1987
|''Pratikar''
|
|[[Chiranjeet Chakraborty]], [[Shakuntala Barua]], [[Victor Banerjee]], [[Madhabi Mukherjee]], [[Satabdi Roy]], [[Debashree Roy]], [[Biplab Chatterjee]]
|
|
|-
|1988
|''Pratik''
|
|[[Chiranjeet Chakraborty]], [[Soumitra Chatterjee]], [[Raakhee]], [[Tapas Paul]], [[Roopa Ganguly]] , [[Papiya Adhikari]]
|
|
|-
|1989
|''Aamar Shapath''
|
|[[Prasenjit Chatterjee]], [[Shatabdi Roy]]
|
|
|-
|1989
|''Agnitrishna''
|
|[[Chiranjeet Chakraborty]], [[Ranjit Mallick]], [[Madhabi Mukherjee]], [[Roopa Ganguly]], [[Satabdi Roy]]
|
|
|-
|1989
|''Hum Intezaar Karenge''
|
|[[Mithun Chakraborty]], [[Padmini Kolhapure]]
|
|
|-
|1989
|''Pronomi Tomay''
|
|[[Arjun Chakraborty]], [[Reshma Singh]], [[Prosenjit Chatterjee]], [[Sumitra Mukherjee]], [[Biplab Chatterjee]]
|
|
|-
|1990
|''Papi''
|
|[[Chiranjeet Chakraborty]], [[Debashree Roy]], [[Abhishek Chatterjee]], [[Pallavi Chatterjee]]. [[Dipankar Dey]],[[Kaushik Banerjee]], [[Indrani Dutta]]
|
|
|-
|1992
|''[[Anutap]]''
|
|[[Raj Babbar]], [[Debashree Roy]], [[Rabi Ghosh]], [[Anup Kumar (actor)|Anup Kumar]]. [[Soumitra Bannerjee]],[[Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress)]], [[Nirmal Kumar]]
|
|
|-
|1992
|''Shwet Paatharer Thala''
|
|[[Aparna Sen]],[[Dipankar Dey]], [[Sabyasachi Chakraborty]], [[Indrani Haldar]], [[Rituparna Sengupta]], [[Dilip Roy (actor)|Dilip Roy]], [[Haradhan Bandopadhyay]], [[Meenakshi Goswami]], [[Lily Chakravarty]], [[Bhaskar Banerjee]], [[Gopa Aich]], [[Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress)|Sanghamitra Bandyopadhya]]
|
|<ref>{{Cite web|title=Shwet Paathorer Thala|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN6dN_iYDKQ|website=[[YouTube]]|url-status=live|access-date=15 March 2020}}</ref>
|-
|1993
|''Duranta Prem''
|
|[[Dipak Sen]], [[Chandana Sen]], [[Tapas Paul]], [[Rachna Banerjee]],[[Tota Roy Choudhury]],[[Dolon Roy]],[[Subhendu Chatterjee]],[[Shakuntala Barua]]
|
|
|-
|1994
|''Sandhyatara''
|
|[[Sabyasachi Chakraborty]], [[Debashree Roy]], [[Manoj Mitra]], [[Uttam Mohanty]], [[Sumanta Mukherjee]]
|
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/sandhyatara-35720|title=Sandhyatara (1994)|last=|first=|date=|website=Cinestaan|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=15 March 2020}}</ref>
|-
|1995
|
|''Andolan''
|[[Rituparna Sengupta]]
|
|
|-
|1996
|''[[Lathi (1996 film)|Lathi]]''
|
|[[Victor Banerjee]], [[Soumitra Chatterjee]], [[Prosenjit Chatterjee]],[[Abhishek Chatterjee]],[[Debashree Roy]],[[Satabdi Roy]],[[Rituparna Sengupta]], [[Pallavi Chatterjee]],[[Dulal Lahiri]] ,[[Dipankar De]],[[Sabyasachi Chakraborty]],[[Haradhan Banerjee]],[[Manoj Mitra]],[[Nirmal Kumar]],[[Kaushik Banerjee]],[[Bodhisattva majumdar]],[[Debika Mitra]],[[Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress)]],[[Gita Dey]],[[Tota Roy Choudhury]],[[June Malia]],[[Pushpita Mukherjee]],[[Koushik Sen]]
|
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesofindia.com/movieshow/66376447.cms|title=Lathi|last=|first=|date=|website=[[The Times of India]]|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=14 March 2020}}</ref>
|-
|1997
|''Joddha''
|
|[[Chiranjeet Chakraborty|Chiranjeet]], [[Debashree Roy]], [[Tapas Paul]], [[Abhishek Chatterjee]], [[Priyanka Trivedi]], [[Sabyasachi Chakraborty]],[[Lily Chakravarty]]
|
|
|-
|1997
|''Sedin Chaitramas''
|
|[[Sanjib Das Gupta]], [[Indrani Dutta]], [[Chiranjeet Chakraborty]],[[Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress)]],[[Dipankar De]]
|
|
|-
|1999
|''Khelaghar''
|
|[[Supriya Devi]], [[Prosenjit Chatterjee]], [[Rituparna Sengupta]], [[Sreelekha Mitra]],[[Abhishek Chatterjee]],[[Pallavi Chatterjee]]
|
|
|-
|1999
|''Sudhu Ekbar Bolo''
|
|[[Prosenjit Chatterjee]], [[Rituparna Sengupta]], [[Mouli Ganguly]]
|
|
|-
|1999
|''[[Tumi Ele Tai]]''
|
| [[Victor Banerjee]], [[Prosenjit Chatterjee]], [[Rituparna Sengupta]], [[Tapas Paul]], [[Anuradha Roy (actress)|Anuradha Roy]], [[Santu Mukherjee]], [[Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress)|Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay]], [[Arpita Chatterjee]]
|
|-
|2000
|''Shesh Thikana''
|
|[[Supriya Devi]],[[Jaya Seal Ghosh]], [[Sabyasachi Chakraborty]],[[Shakuntala Barua]]
|
|
|-
|2005
|''[[Ek Mutho Chhabi]]''
|
|[[Rajatabha Dutta]], [[Sreelekha Mitra]], [[June Malia]], [[Arunima Ghosh]], [[Roopa Ganguly]], [[Indrani Halder]], [[Pallavi Chatterjee]], [[Samata Das]], [[Monami Ghosh]], [[Biplab Chatterjee]], [[Moumita Gupta]], [[Bikram Ghosh]], [[Kunal Mitra]], [[Koushik Sen]], [[Dilip Roy (actor)|Dilip Roy]]
|
|
|-
|2005
|''[[Manik (2005 film)|Manik]]''
|
| [[Jeet (actor)|Jeet]], [[Koel Mallick]], [[Ranjit Mallick]], [[Debdoot Ghosh]], [[Samata Das]], [[Shyamal Dutta]], [[Biplab Chatterjee]], [[Rajesh Sharma (actor)|Rajesh Sharma]], [[Monu Mukherjee]]
|
|
|-
|2005
|''[[Shubhodrishti (2005 film)|Shubhodrishti]]''
|
| [[Jeet (actor)|Jeet]], [[Koel Mallick]], [[Parambrata Chatterjee]], [[Sanjib Dasgupta]], [[Bharat Kaul]], [[Laboni Sarkar]], [[Biswajit Chakraborty]], [[Dilip Ray]]
|
|
|-
|2006
|''Priyotama''
|
|[[Jeet (actor)|Jeet]], [[Swastika Mukherjee]],[[Laboni Sarkar]]
|
|
|-
|2007
|''Pitribhumi''
|
|[[Jeet (actor)|Jeet]], [[Swastika Mukherjee]].[[Lily Chakravarty]],[[Shakuntala Barua]]
|
|
|-
|2010
|''[[Hangover (2010 film)|Hangover]]''
|
| [[Prosenjit Chatterjee]], [[Subhra Kundu]], [[Joy Kumar Mukherjee]], [[Sayantika Banerjee]], [[Subhashish Mukherjee]], [[Biplab Chatterjee]], [[Supriyo Dutta]]
|
|
|-
|2011
|''[[Bhorer Alo]]''
|
|
|
|
|-
|2015
|''Birat 22''
|
|
|
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/Zee-Bangla-Orginials-thriller-Birat-22-to-air-on-November-8/articleshow/49688341.cms|title=Zee Bangla Orginials' thriller Birat 22 to air on November 8|last=|first=|date=|website=[[The Times of India]]|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=14 March 2020}}</ref>
|}

* He also directed 16 telefilms & 3 TV Series.

===Assistant Director===
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===Actor===
* [[Abhimanyu (1989 film)|Abhimanyu]] (1989)
* [[Amanush]] (1975)

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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|1110725}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120929005552/http://www.citwf.com/person55544.htm www.citwf.com]
* [http://www.upperstall.com/people/raj-chakraborty www.upperstall.com]

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[[Category:1946 births]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian film directors]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian film directors]]
[[Category:Bengali film directors]]
[[Category:Directors who won the Best Film on Family Welfare National Film Award]]
[[Category:Film directors from West Bengal]]
[[Category:Hindi-language film directors]]
[[Category:Living people]]

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