Dhirendra Nath Ganguly Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Dhirendra Nath Ganguly Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Dhirendra Nath Ganguly (26 March 1893 â€" 18 November 1978), better

known as Dhiren Ganguly or D.G, was a Dadasaheb Phalke Award-winning

and Padma Bhushan recipient film entrepreneur/actor/director of

Bengali Cinema. He had set up a number of film production companies:

Indo British Film company, British Dominion Films, Lotus Film Company.

Later, he directed films for New Theatres. He produced many movies in

the comedy genre. He was born in Calcutta and died in the same

city.Ganguly studied in the Visva Bharati University in Shantiniketan.

He became a headmaster of State Art School in Hyderabad. He released a

book of photographs of his make-up techniques called Bhavki Abhibyakti

in 1915. He also taught this art to C.I.D. officers in both British

India and independent India. His family hailed from Barisal.

[1]Ganguly's photography book brought him in contact of J. F. Madan,

who agreed to invest in his films.[1] Ganguly and Madan Theatres'

manager Nitish Lahiri formed the Indo British Film Co, the first film

production company owned by Bengalis, in 1918.[2] Bilat Ferat (1921)

(The England Returned), a silent comedy film directed by Nitish

Lahiri, was the first production from this company.[1] They released

another two movies in 1922: Yashoda Nandan and Sadhu Aur Shaitan.[2]
Dhirendra Nath Ganguly Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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