{"id":2789,"date":"2016-03-27T01:30:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2021-03-27T16:11:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T10:41:55","slug":"nabendu-ghosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/nabendu-ghosh\/","title":{"rendered":"Nabendu Ghosh: The Master of Screen Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Cover<\/a>

Cover of the booklet ‘Nabendu Ghosh’<\/p><\/div>\n

What do Bimal Roy\u2019s Sujata, Bandini, Devdas, Parineeta<\/em>, Hrishikesh Mukherjee\u2019s Abhimaan,<\/em> Basu Bhattacharya\u2019s Teesri Kasam<\/em>, Guru Dutt\u2019s Aar Paar<\/em>, Vijay Bhatt\u2019s Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu<\/em>, Shakti Samanta\u2019s Insaan Jaag Utha<\/em>, Phani Mazumdar\u2019s Baadbaan<\/em> have in common? Sounds like an eclectic bag of classic films?<\/p>\n

All these films had their screenplays crafted by one person \u2013 the gentle, unassuming Nabendu Ghosh, the legendary script and screenplay writer who quietly worked behind the scenes with some of the best known filmmakers of the country, visually mapping every frame of the film through words before it would go on the floors.<\/p>\n

\u201cScreenplay is direction on paper, as my mother explained to me,\u201d says Ratnottama Sengupta, renowned Arts Editor, Art Curator, Film Festival Curator, Author, Consulting Editor of Cinebengal.com<\/a> and the daughter of Nabendu Ghosh. In a candid conversation with this writer at her home in South Delhi, Ratnottama revealed the many facets of her illustrious father who raised screenplay writing to the level of a literary art form in Indian cinema.<\/p>\n

\"Ratnottama

Ratnottama Sengupta<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cEven today, people do not know what is screenplay. The stars, director, music composer, singers, lyricist, even cameraperson, choreographer and editor are known but most people are not sure what exactly is the screenplay.\u201d In such a scenario, Nabendu Ghosh is one name that commands high respect from everyone from stars and filmmakers to novelists and litterateurs.<\/p>\n

“Scriptwriter Nabendu Ghosh\u2019s perfect characterization enabled any director to shoot the film with ease. He had the rare ability to pen the pulse of a character. His scripts brought to films a literary value that was missing in that period. His Devdas was closest to the novel and the script brought into full play the actor in me. His amazing versatility came forward after Devdas in Yahudi.\u00a0 The ideal scriptwriter-director combination he formed with Bimal Roy are not found today.”<\/em><\/p>\n

~ Dilip Kumar<\/strong>, The Statesman Puja Special<\/em>, 2005<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Devdas<\/em><\/strong>, 1955<\/p>\n