Shakti Samanta

Shakti Samanta

Shakti Samanta ( _bn. শক্তি সামন্ত) (born January 13, 1926 in Burdwan, West Bengal, British India) is an Indian director. He graduated in 1944 from Calcutta University. He joined the film industry in 1948 as an assistant director and worked with Gyan Mukherjee, Satish Nigam and Phani Majumdar.

Film career

Samanta Directed first feature film in 1954 and started his own production company, Shakti Films, in 1957. In all, Samanta has directed 43 feature films: including 37 Hindi, and 6 Bengali films. His best known films are: "Howrah Bridge"followed by "China Town", "Kashmir Ki Kali", "An Evening in Paris", Pagal Kahin Ka , Jane Anjaane with Shammi Kapoor and then "Aradhana", "Kati Patang", "Amar Prem", "Anuraag", "Amanush", "Anurodh", "Alag Alag", "Anand Ashram", and "Mehbooba". Samanta is credited for starting the trend of making double version films in Hindi and Bengali with "Amanush" in 1974. Samanta also made the first co-produced film between India and Bangladesh in 1984.Shakti managed to ride 2 "star phases" and attempted a 3rd. He was among the directors who worked with Shammi Kapoor in the late 50's up to mid 60's when he was a star, then he hitched on early to Rajesh Khanna, and gave a number of classics with him like Aradhana ,Kati Patang ,Amar Prem ,Anuraag ,Mehbooba ,Anurodh , Aawaaz ,Hum Dono and Alag Alag and though he tried to get on to the Amitabh star phase, his movies with Amitabh Bachchan were not hits despite Barsat Ki Ek Rat and "The Great Gambler" having all the usual ingredients of his movies - story, cast and plus music by R D Burman.

On some of his films, his brother and wife were producers. He also produced some of the films that his son directed. [ [http://www.screenindia.com/old/fullstory.php?content_id=9854 Great Gambler ] ]

Awards and Recognition

Samanta received Filmfare awards for "Best film" for "Aradhana", "Anuraag" and "Amanush". He has also received several Lifetime Achievement awards and several other awards from Zee and other Indian organizations. Some of his films have been shown at international festivals in Berlin, Tashkent, Moscow, Cairo and Beirut.

Samanta was President of the Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association for 5 years, Chairman of the Central Board Of Film Certification for 7 years and was Chairman of the Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata for 2 years.

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