Prabhat Roy

Prabhat Roy (Bengali: প্রভাত রায়; born 1946 in Jamshedpore) is a former Indian director ,Screenplay Writer, Translator who is known for his work in Bengali cinema.^[3][4] He received several awards including two National Awards and BFJA Awards.

Prabhat Roy
প্রভাত রায়
Born	1946 (age 78–79) Jamshedpore, British India (present-day Jharkhand, India)
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Maharaja Manindra Chandra College, Ramakrishna Mission Siksha Mandir, Sarisha
Occupation	Filmmaker[1]
Notable work	Shwet Paatharer Thala Sandhyatara Lathi
Spouse	Jayashree Roy[2]
Awards	National Award BFJA Award

He began his career as an assistant director in the early 1970s. He claimed to fame after his directorial venture Protidan (1983) starring Sharmila Tagore, Ranjit Mallick, Victor Banerjee and Naseeruddin Shah emerged to be a major box office success.^[5] Other than feature films, he directed 16 telefilms and 3 TV series.

Early life

Roy went to Ramakrishna Mission Siksha Mandir, Diamond Harbour. He graduated from manindra chandra college. Roy was born in Jamshedpur but grew up in Barrackpur.

Awards

Award	Year	Category	Film	Result	Ref.
National Award	1993	Best Feature Film on Family Welfare	Shwet Pathorer Thala	Won	[6]
	1997		Lathi	Won	[7]
BFJA Award	1997	Best Actor in a Leading Role	Victor Banerjee for Lathi	Won
		Best Art Direction	Kartik Bose for Lathi	Won	[8]
	2006	Best Director	Shubhodrishti	Won
	2006	Best Film	Priyotama	Won
kalakar Award	1997	Best Director	Lathi	Won
Lux ETV Award	2005	Best Film	Manik (2005 film)	Won
Anandalok Award	2006	Best Film	Shubhodrishti	Won
7th Filmfare Awards Bangla	2024	Lifetime achievement Award		Won
Bengal Film and Television chember of Commerce	2024	Debaki Bose Lifetime Achievement Award		Won	[9]

Filmography

As a director

Year	Title		Cast	Language	Ref.
	Feature film	TV series
1983	Protidan		Sharmila Tagore, Ranjit Mullick, Victor Banerjee, Nasiruddin Shah, Lily Chakravarty, Anamika Saha
1985	Bandhan Anjana		Sharmila Tagore	Hindi	[10]
1986	Zindagani		Mithun Chakraborty, Rati Agnihotri, Raakhee	Hindi	[11]
1987	Pratikar		Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Shakuntala Barua, Victor Banerjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Satabdi Roy, Debashree Roy, Biplab Chatterjee
1988	Pratik		Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Soumitra Chatterjee, Raakhee, Tapas Paul, Roopa Ganguly, Papiya Adhikari
1989	Aamar Shapath		Prasenjit Chatterjee, Shatabdi Roy
1989	Agnitrishna		Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Ranjit Mallick, Madhabi Mukherjee, Roopa Ganguly, Satabdi Roy
1989	Hum Intezaar Karenge		Mithun Chakraborty, Padmini Kolhapure	Hindi
1989	Pronomi Tomay		Arjun Chakraborty, Reshma Singh, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Sumitra Mukherjee, Biplab Chatterjee
1990	Papi		Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Debashree Roy, Abhishek Chatterjee, Pallavi Chatterjee. Dipankar Dey, Kaushik Banerjee, Indrani Dutta
1992	Anutap		Raj Babbar, Debashree Roy, Rabi Ghosh, Anup Kumar. Soumitra Bannerjee, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Nirmal Kumar
1992	Shwet Paatharer Thala		Aparna Sen, Dipankar Dey, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Indrani Haldar, Rituparna Sengupta, Dilip Roy, Haradhan Bandopadhyay, Meenakshi Goswami, Lily Chakravarty, Bhaskar Banerjee, Gopa Aich, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhya		[12]
1993	Duranta Prem		Deepak Sharma, Chandana Sen, Tapas Paul, Rachna Banerjee, Tota Roy Choudhury, Dolon Roy, Subhendu Chatterjee, Shakuntala Barua
1994	Sandhyatara		Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Debashree Roy, Manoj Mitra, Uttam Mohanty, Sumanta Mukherjee		[13]
1995		Andolan	Rituparna Sengupta
1996	Lathi		Victor Banerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Abhishek Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Satabdi Roy, Rituparna Sengupta, Pallavi Chatterjee, Dulal Lahiri, Dipankar De, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Haradhan Banerjee, Manoj Mitra, Nirmal Kumar, Kaushik Banerjee, Bodhisattva majumdar, Debika Mitra, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Gita Dey, Tota Roy Choudhury, June Malia, Pushpita Mukherjee, Koushik Sen		[14]
1997	Joddha		Chiranjeet, Debashree Roy, Tapas Paul, Abhishek Chatterjee, Priyanka Trivedi, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Lily Chakravarty
1997	Sedin Chaitramas		Sanjib Das Gupta, Indrani Dutta, Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Dipankar De
1999	Khelaghar		Supriya Devi, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Sreelekha Mitra, Abhishek Chatterjee, Pallavi Chatterjee
1999	Shudhu Ekbar Bolo		Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Mouli Ganguly
1999	Tumi Ele Tai		Victor Banerjee, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Tapas Paul, Anuradha Roy, Santu Mukherjee, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Arpita Chatterjee
2000	Shesh Thikana		Supriya Devi, Jaya Seal Ghosh, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Shakuntala Barua
2005	Ek Mutho Chhabi		Rajatabha Dutta, Sreelekha Mitra, June Malia, Arunima Ghosh, Roopa Ganguly, Indrani Halder, Pallavi Chatterjee, Samata Das, Monami Ghosh, Biplab Chatterjee, Moumita Gupta, Bikram Ghosh, Kunal Mitra, Koushik Sen, Dilip Roy
2005	Manik		Jeet, Koel Mallick, Ranjit Mallick, Debdoot Ghosh, Samata Das, Shyamal Dutta, Biplab Chatterjee, Rajesh Sharma, Monu Mukherjee
2005	Shubhodrishti		Jeet, Koel Mallick, Parambrata Chatterjee, Sanjib Dasgupta, Bharat Kaul, Laboni Sarkar, Biswajit Chakraborty, Dilip Ray
2006	Priyotama		Jeet, Swastika Mukherjee, Laboni Sarkar
2007	Pitribhumi		Jeet, Swastika Mukherjee.Lily Chakravarty, Shakuntala Barua
2010	Hangover		Prosenjit Chatterjee, Subhra Kundu, Joy Kumar Mukherjee, Sayantika Banerjee, Subhashish Mukherjee, Biplab Chatterjee, Supriyo Dutta
2011	Bhorer Alo		Priyanshu Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Rohit Roy, Anusmriti Sarkar
2015	Birat 22				[15]

• He also directed 16 telefilms & 3 TV Series.

Assistant Director

Actor

• Abhimanyu (1989)
• Amanush (1975)

Legacy

Book

• Clapstick : Autobiography of Prabhat Roy