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{{Infobox person
| name = Subodh Ghosh
| image = SubodhGhoshPic.jpg
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1909|09|14}}
| birth_place = [[Hazaribag]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal Province]], [[British India]]<br/>(now in [[Jharkhand]], India)
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1980|03|10|1909|09|14}}
| nationality = Indian
| other_names =
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| occupation = Journalist, writer
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'''Subodh Ghosh''' (1909–1980)<ref name="Das1995">{{cite book|author=Sisir Kumar Das|title=History of Indian Literature: 1911–1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC&pg=PA276|access-date=12 July 2012|date=1 January 1995|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-798-9|pages=276–}}</ref> was a noted Indian author of [[Bengali literature]] and a journalist with the [[Kolkata]]-based daily newspaper ''[[Ananda Bazar Patrika]]''. His best known work, ''Bharat Premkatha'', is about the romances of epic Indian characters and has remained very popular in the Bengali literary world. Many of his stories have been adapted for classic [[Cinema of India|Indian films]], most notably [[Ritwik Ghatak]]'s ''[[Ajantrik]]'' (1958) and [[Bimal Roy]]'s ''[[Sujata (1959 film)|Sujata]]'' (1959), and even today filmmakers search his works for suitable plots.

He won the [[Filmfare Award]] for [[Filmfare Award for Best Story|Best Story]] twice, for [[Bimal Roy]]'s ''[[Sujata (1959 film)|Sujata]]'' (1960) and for [[Gulzar (lyricist)|Gulzar]]'s ''[[Ijaazat]]'' in 1989. He was selected for Bharatya Jnanpith Award (1977) But he refused it.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Subodh Ghosh-er Chhotogalpe Manobik Mulyobodh|last=Dr. Sibsankar Pal}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Born at [[Hazaribagh]] on 14 September 1909, now in [[Jharkhand]], he studied in [[St. Columba's College, Hazaribagh|St. Columba's College]] and in the library of the well known philosopher and scholar, [[Mahesh Chandra Ghosh]]. Later, before starting his professional career as a writer, he worked as a bus conductor in state bus transport service to support his livelihood in Calcutta and continued his writing side by side.

==Career==
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==Literature==
He shot into prominence with such stories as ''Fossil''. Thereafter, he went on to produce a rich harvest of varied stories. While his ''Bharat Premkatha'' delves into the classics for both form and content, presenting immortal love stories, his ''Kingbadantir Deshe'' is composed of local legends, which are believed to have really taken place in the past, and which gained in popularity through oral transmission. His personal knowledge about and deep insight into [[Adivasi]] life and his grounding in military history was always well respected.

Pradip Bhattacharya has translated, or rather transcreated ''Bharat Premkatha'' into English as ''Love Stories from the Mahabharata''. Subodh Ghosh's ''House Combustible'' (English translation of ''Jatugriho'') finds a place in ''Indian Love Stories'' edited by [[Sudhir Kakar]].

==Works==

'''Novels'''

*''[[Tilanjali (novel)|Tilanjoli]]''
*''Gangotri''
*''Trijama''
*''Preyoahy''
*''Satkiya''
*''Sujata''
*''Suno Boronari''
*''Bosonto Tilok''
*''Jiavorli''
*''Bagdatta''

'''Story-Book'''

*''Fossil''
*''Parashuramer Kuthar''
*''Gotrantar''
*''Suklavishar''
*''Gram Jamuna''
*''Bonikornika''
*''Jatugriho''
*''Mon Vramar''
*''Thirbijuri''
*''Kusumeshu''
*''Bharat Premkatha''

'''Others'''

*''Bharityo Foujer Itihash''
*''Kingbodontir Deshe''
*''Amritopothojatri''

'''Famous Stories'''
Bahurupi.
*Olik
*Swashanchampa
*Orchid
*Jotugriha
*Barbadhu
*Chaturbhuj Club
*Thogini
*Fossil
*Polasher Nesha
*Abishkar
*Ajantrik
*Shock Therapy
*Supriya
*Pushpakeet
*Teen Oddhay
*Raater Pakhi
*Sundaram
*Shuklavishar
*Quotation
*Chaturtha Panipather Juddha
*Monobasita
*Laghu Aranyak
*JalRakkhos
*Cactus
*Kalpurus
*Khaddyot
*Parashuramer Kuthar
*Sukla Nabomi
*Pichu Dake
*Garol Amiyo Vel
*Bhat Tilak Roy
*Guhamanab
*Onatmik

==Adaptations==

While Subodh Ghosh was immensely popular with Bengali readers, he was to a large extent unknown as a writer to the outside world. Films gave him a break through to the vast Hindi-speaking world. His stories have been used for Hindi films as much as for Bengali films.

Following on his critically successful 1944 debut ''Udayer Pathey'', [[Bimal Roy]] shot ''Anjangarh'' in 1948, based on Subodh Ghosh's political drama ''Fossil'', about collusion of aristocracy and business interests against the common man. [[Mrinal Sen]]'s 1971 film ''[[Ek Adhuri Kahani]]'', based on story, ''Gotrantar'', which tells the story of a sugar mill and its agricultural neighbourhood where the workers are deprived of bare necessities and the farmers cheated. [[Agradoot]]'s film [[Trijama]] in 1956 was based on his novel in the same name. [[Tapan Sinha]] picked up Subodh Ghosh's ''Jatugriha'' for a film on the same name, [[Jatugriha]] in 1964.

Subodh Ghosh shot into limelight as the author whose work inspired classic films such as [[Ritwik Ghatak]]'s ''[[Ajantrik]]'' (1958) and Bimal Roy's ''[[Sujata (1959 film)|Sujata]]'' (1959). While ''Sujata'' was the story of romance between a Brahmin young man ([[Sunil Dutt]])and an outcaste woman ([[Nutan]]), ''Ajantrik'' was the story of a taxi driver in love with his out dated vehicle. Subodh Ghosh won the [[Filmfare Best Story Award]] for ''Sujata''. Both the films were made in the late fifties. Later, Subodh Ghosh won the Filmfare Best Story Award a second time, albeit posthumously, for [[Gulzar (lyricist)|Gulzar]]'s ''[[Ijaazat]]'', which was based on ''Jatugriho''. The drama titled "Waiting Room" by noted Bangladeshi filmmaker [[Mostofa Sarwar Farooki]] is also based on this story. [[Basu Chatterjee]] made a Hindi film ''[[Chitchor]]'' (1976), starring Amol Palekar on his story, ''Chittachakor''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi cinema|author=Gulzar |author-link=Gulzar |author2=Govind Nihalani |author3=Saibal Chatterjee |publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica|year=2003|isbn=81-7991-066-0 |page=337 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&pg=PT337}}</ref> Even a recent [[Sooraj R. Barjatya]] potboiler ''[[Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon]]'' picked up the story idea from Subodh Ghosh. Such was the vast expanse of his writing.

===Tribute===
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" In short stories, he opened a new horizon for us" – [[Mahasweta Devi]]

" When we started writing, there were two paths before us – Tarashankar and Subodh Ghosh"—Ramapada Chowdhury

" His writing was my inspiration"—Bimal Kar

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb name|0315926}}
*{{OL author|4573377A}}
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