Calcutta is a 1947 American film noir crime film directed by John Farrow, and written and produced by Seton I. Miller. The drama features Alan Ladd, Gail...
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Calcutta Calcutta (1947 film), a film noir starring Alan Ladd Calcutta (1969 film), a documentary film by Louis Malle Calcutta 71 (1971 film), a film by Mrinal...
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Calcutta Film Society was India’s second film society in the city of Kolkata (then Calcutta), West Bengal, India. It was founded in 1947, just after independence...
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Chidananda Dasgupta (category University of Calcutta alumni)
filmmaker, film critic, a film historian and one of the founders of Calcutta Film Society with Satyajit Ray in 1947. He lived and worked in Calcutta and Santiniketan...
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India's independence in 1947. On reserve since the Boer War, they are most noted for their part (with members of the Calcutta Scottish) in Operation Creek...
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Kolkata (redirect from Calcutta, India)
Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern...
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The Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta, measuring 14 by 18 feet (4.3 m × 5.5 m), in which troops of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab...
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Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata (redirect from Calcutta Medical College)
Medical College, Kolkata, also known as Calcutta Medical College, is a Government medical college and hospital located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India....
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Direct Action Day (redirect from Great Calcutta Killings)
Muslim Politics, 1906–1947 (Revised and enlarged ed.). The University Press Limited. pp. 242, 244–245. ISBN 984-05-1688-4. "The Calcutta Riots of 1946 | Sciences...
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Presidency University, Kolkata (redirect from Presidency College, Calcutta)
in 2010 after functioning as a constituent college of the University of Calcutta. Founded in 1817, it is one of the oldest places of higher education in...
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Bengal Presidency (redirect from Calcutta Presidency)
and Classic Theater in Calcutta. The Madan Theatre started making silent films in Calcutta in 1916. The first Bengali feature film, Billwamangal, was produced...
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K. L. Saigal (category 1947 deaths)
(11 April 1904 – 18 January 1947), was an Indian singer and actor who worked in Hindi cinema, which was centred in Calcutta (Kolkata) during Saigal's time...
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film festival 1998: Part of 'Classic Film Classic Directors' category', Calcutta International Film Festival 1999: Best Masterpiece Film, Pusan Film Festival...
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following India's independence in 1947. An attempt was made to raise two kilted companies of "Calcutta Scottish" within the Calcutta Rifles, but apparently without...
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Cinema of West Bengal (redirect from Film industry in Calcutta)
CharK Goswami, Tapas Paul—North Calcutta Film Society, Calcutta, 1995 Bangla Chalachchdra Shilper llihas (1897–1947)(Bengali)—Kalish Mukhapadhyay—Poop...
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India in 1947 and the refugees coping with it. The film tells the story of Ishwar Chakraborty, a Hindu refugee from East Pakistan after the 1947 partition...
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Pritish Nandy (redirect from List of films released by Pritish Nandy Communications)
Chakravarti (Calcutta, 1975) Pritish Nandyr Kobita translated by Shakti Chattopadhyay (Calcutta, 1978) Indian Poetry in English: 1947–1972 (Calcutta, 1972)...
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Victoria Memorial, Kolkata (redirect from Victoria Memorial in Calcutta)
building, stately, spacious, monumental and grand, to which every newcomer in Calcutta will turn, to which all the resident population, European and Native, will...
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winning Bengali film Calcutta 71 and Sen's Calcutta Trilogy its sequel in 1973, Padatik, Richard Attenborough's 1982 Academy Award winning film Gandhi, Goutam...
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The University of Calcutta, informally known as Calcutta University (CU), is a public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It has 151...
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Fort William, West Bengal (redirect from Fort William, Calcutta)
Fort William is a fort in Hastings, Calcutta (Kolkata). It was built during the early years of Britain's administration of Bengal. It sits on the eastern...
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Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta or IIM-C) is a public business school located in Joka, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was the first...
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Hindu goddess Kali. The unrest spread from Calcutta to the surrounding regions of Bengal when Calcutta's English-educated students returned home to their...
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Tarachand Barjatya (category University of Calcutta alumni)
films based on family values. He was born in Kuchaman City in Rajasthan in a Marwari Jain Family in 1914. He studied at Vidyasagar College, Calcutta....
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Cinema of India (redirect from Film history/India)
featured a stage show at Calcutta's Star Theatre. With Stevenson's camera and encouragement, Indian photographer Hiralal Sen filmed scenes from that show...
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first Indian sound picture. At this point, the Calcutta suburb of Tollygunje was the main center of film production in India. Deming refers to the area...
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This is a list of notable people connected to the University of Calcutta. Fourteen heads of state and government, and four Nobel laureates have been associated...
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Omkar Goswami (category University of Calcutta alumni)
Limited (CERG). Goswami did his B.A. from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta, and Calcutta University. Omkar Goswami holds a Master's in Economics from the...
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Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (category University of Calcutta alumni)
Gandhi and Suhrawardy also had deliberations in Calcutta. After the transfer of power on 14–15 August 1947, Suhrawardy continued to remain in India for a...
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Shakti Thakur (category 1947 births)
Thakur (1947 – 5 October 2020) was an Indian actor, comedian and playback singer. He has acted in many Bengali as well as several Hindi films and also...
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