Partha Pratim Chowdhury

Narozen 2. 8. 1938

Partha Pratim Chowdhury (1938—1996) was an Indian Bengali actor, director, screenwriter, dramatist and music director. He was widely appreciated as a director for Chaya Surya (1963) and Jadubansha (1974). He studied at the Scottish Church College of the University of Calcutta. Along with other future luminaries of the Bengali theatre, Badal Sircar, Rudraprasad Sengupta, and Manoj Mitra, among others, he was initiated into the theatre world during his college years. He started a theatre group Sundaram in 1957. Later he moved on to filmmaking.