EK SANVEDNASHEEL BANGALI KAVI JO FILMON MEIN BHI KAAMYAAB RAHE (VIKYAAT DIGDARSHAK BUDDHADEB DASGUPTA KA KOLKATA MEIN DEHAANT )

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EK SANVEDNASHEEL BANGALI KAVI JO FILMON MEIN BHI KAAMYAAB RAHE (VIKYAAT DIGDARSHAK BUDDHADEB DASGUPTA KA KOLKATA MEIN DEHAANT )

Writers and sensitive poets have very rarely succeded in the field of films . The one classic example of a poet who turned a very successful lyricist , Shailendra who felt it would be easy for him to produce a film , especially with his close contacts with the stars , especially stars like Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman - Ali Peter John
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He succeeded in starting "Teesri Kasam'" but he realised how painful it was to produce a film and he even died before he could see the critical acclaim his film won .

Gulzar was a successful directior mainly because he was also a good poet and a writer and had some of his best friends as stars , but he finally realized how producers took poets and writers for granted and had to give up direction after his bad experiences during the making of his film , "Tu Tu Tu " .

There were some friends of Anand Bakshi who advised him to produce a film , but he kept away from any such temptation .

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There are many other writers and lyricists who could never succeed either as directors or producers.

The well-known Bengali film director Buddhadeb Dasgupta who died on June 10 was a poet who also succeeded as a director of some noteworthy films which went on to win several National , State, International and even a Lifetime Achievement Award in Spain .

He was also recognized as a poet of significance and had to his credit several collections of poems written in Bengali .

He was a contemporary of filmmakers like Gautam Ghosh and Aparna Sen . He was a prolific filmmaker and a poet till five years ago when a kidney ailment got at him and he kept battling his ailment till he surendered and succumbed on the morning of June 10.

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Like in many cases , I too had my encounters with Buddhadeb . He was making a Hindi film called "Andhi Gali" with Deepti Navel in the lead role .

He had come to Bombay for the shooting and I had the opportunity to meet him and watch him shoot without any fuss and without showing off .

He was shooting on Yari Road in an unoccupied building called "Nirman Kutir " with Deepti . Yari Road was almost like the roads and areas during the lockdown these days .

There were just new buildings , but people had still not come to live in these posh buildings .

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Deepti was supposed to jump from the sixth floor in an attempt to commit suicide . I was with Deepti till the scene was to be shot , but I left because I had just lost my younger brother under mysterious circumstances and I knew I would not be able to take the scene of Deepti's jumping out.

I was aware that the jumping scene would be done by a double , but the very idea of Deepti who was still new to Bombay and my very good friend doing such a scene was something that I couldn't take and I left without even letting Deepti know .

The next morning Buddhadeb was shooting in Vasai and had taken me with him . It was another grim scene and when I asked Buddhadeb why he "loved" shooting such gloomy scenes , he said , " you are still young . You will know the realities of life when you face them .

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My films are about life and life is full of all kinds of colours . You must read my poems and my stories to know me better . "

I met him in Deepti's house and was impressed by his silence and his smoking . We promised to meet each other soon . He invited me to Kolkata.

But , unfortunately that was the last time I had met him and now after so many years , I am making a gallant attempt to bring him alive but unfortunately I am not a Baba , a Fakeer or a Asaram Bapu or a Baba Ram Rahim to falsely claim that I can heal people or bring people back from the dead .

KABHI KABHI EK CHHOTISI MULAQAT KITNA ASAR KAR DETI HAI KI HUM UNKO CHAALIS SAAL KE BAAD BHI YAAD RAKTE HAI . MAIN UNKO YAHA YAAD KAR RAHA HOON , AUR WOH BUDDHIJEEVI INSAAN RAAKH BAN BHI GAYA. YAHI TOH ZINDAGI KA KHEL HAI JO YUGON SE CHALTA AA RAHA HAI AUR HUMKO ISSE SWEEKAAR NE KE SIVA AUR KOI RAASTA NAHI HAI

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