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{{Short description|Indian film director and screenwriter}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=December 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Moni Bhattacharjee
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| birth_name = Moni Bhattacharya
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| birth_place = [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj|Birth India]]
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| occupation = [[Film director]], [[screenwriter]]
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| yearsactive = 1958–1970
| othername = M. Bhattacharjee
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'''Moni Bhattacharjee''' was an Indian [[film director]] and [[screenwriter]] of the 1960s who directed [[Hindi language]] films.

==Career==
Bhattacharjee started as an assistant to [[Bimal Roy]] on many classic films of the 1950s. After the success of the film ''[[Madhumati]]'' (1958), Bimal Roy asked him to direct ''Usne Kaha Tha'', which Roy produced under Bimal Roy Productions label, thus starting Bhattacharjee's career as a fully fledged director.<ref name=TH>{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/Usne-Kaha-Tha-1961/article15394537.ece |title=Usne Kaha Tha 1961|date=29 November 2008|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=13 December 2018 }}</ref> However, ''Usne Kaha Tha'' itself was a "none too smooth takeoff".<ref name=IWI>{{cite journal|last=Bharatan|first=Raju|title=Indian Film Scene|journal=[[The Illustrated Weekly of India]]|year=1969|volume=9|issue=3|pages=47|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mVc6AQAAIAAJ&q=Moni+Bhattacharjee }}</ref> Bhattacharjee went on to direct numerous films, and is best known for the [[dacoit]] film, ''[[Mujhe Jeene Do]]'' (1963), which starred [[Sunil Dutt]] and [[Waheeda Rehman]]<ref name=TH2>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/article428970.ece|title=Mujhe Jeene Do (1963)|date=13 May 2010|work=The Hindu}}</ref> and was among the "Official Selection" at the [[1964 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="Cannes">[http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/1964/inCompetition.html Official Selection 1964] [[Cannes Film Festival]]</ref>

''[[The Hindu]]'' praised ''Mujhe Jeene Do'', writing that the "brilliant synthesis of script, photography, music, lyrics, acting and direction sends you on an emotional rollercoaster".<ref name=TH2/> ''[[The Illustrated Weekly of India]]'' stated that Bhattacharjee was "groomed in the Bimal Roy school", and that his first directorial efforts were not as successful as ''Mujhe Jeene Do'', which "placed him in the top flight of young directors".<ref name=IWI/> Of ''Mujhe Jeene Do'', ''The Link'' wrote: "The moral of the film is legion, and the acting impeded by Moni Bhattacharjee's confused direction. Only one thing is left. Does it, in all its humbling messiness, ever touch the heart?"<ref name="Link">{{cite book|title=Link|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QDBWAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=2012-01-11|year=1963|publisher=United India Periodicals|page=37}}</ref>

More recently, in 2010, ''Mujhe Jeene Do'' was described as a "classic" by ''[[The Hindu]]'' newspaper.<ref name=TH2/>

== Filmography ==

{|class="wikitable"
|-
! colspan="4" style="background:#bfd7ff"|Assistant director
|-
!Year !! Film !!Producer !!Notes
|-
|1953
|''[[Parineeta (1953 film)|Parineeta]]''
|Ashok Kumar
|
|-
|1953
|''[[Do Bigha Zamin]]''
|Bimal Roy
|[[Filmfare Award for Best Film#Winners and nominees|Filmfare Award for Best Film]]
|-
|[[List of Bollywood films of 1954|1954]]
|''[[Biraj Bahu]]''
|Hiten Choudhury
|
|-
|[[List of Bollywood films of 1958|1958]]
|''[[Madhumati]]''
|Bimal Roy Productions
|Highest-grossing film of 1958. It garnered 9 [[Filmfare Awards#Records|Filmfare Awards]]
|-
|[[List of Bollywood films of 1958|1958]]
|''[[Yahudi]]''
|Savak B. Vacha
|
|}
{|class="wikitable"
|-
! colspan="4" style="background:#bfd7ff"|Director
|-
!Year !! Film !!Producer !!Notes
|-
|1960
| ''[[Usne Kaha Tha]]''
|[[Bimal Roy]]
|
|-
|1963
| ''[[Mujhe Jeene Do]]''
|[[Sunil Dutt]]
|Won [[Filmfare Award for Best Actor]]
|-
|1967
| ''[[Jaal (1967 film)|Jaal]]''
|A.R. Khan
|Also scriptwriter
|-
|1968
| ''[[Baazi (1968 film)|Baazi]]''
|Tony Walker
|
|-
|1971
| ''[[Chaahat (1971 film)|Chaahat]]''
|G.M. Roshan
|
|-
|}

===Awards and nominations===
* 1964, nominated for [[Palme d'Or]] at [[Cannes Film Festival]] for ''[[Mujhe Jeene Do]]''<ref name="Cannes"/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0080358}}

{{Portal |Film}}

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[[Category:Film directors from Mumbai]]
[[Category:Hindi-language film directors]]
[[Category:Indian male screenwriters]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian screenwriters]]
[[Category:Bengali film directors]]
[[Category:Bengali screenwriters]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]

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