Govt to confer Dilip Kumar, Lata, Tapan Sinha with “life time achievement awards”
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New Delhi : The Government of India has decided to confer the " One Time Award for Life Time Achievement " to four eminent film personalities - Shri Dilip Kumar, Shri Tapan Sinha, Ms Lata Mangeshkar and Ms Saroja Devi to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of India's Independence.
In the first of the conferments, Shri Tapan Sinha, one of the all-time celluloid greats, would be presented the ' One Time Award for Life Time Achievement ' in the field of film direction.
In view of his failing health, Shri Gopal Krishna Gandhi, the Governor of West Bengal will confer the Award on Shri Tapan Sinha on 20th June, 2008 at his residence in Kolkata.
Tapan Sinha's films such as KABULIWALA (1957), HAATEY BAZAARE (1967), SAFED HAATHI (1977) are well-crafted in terms of structure and technique, exhibiting his virtuosity and capability to handle a range of subjects with equal e'lan and sensitivity."
Tapan Sinha's work have won 19 National Film Awards in various categories apart from laurels in international film festivals like those in Berlin, Venice, London, Moscow, San Francisco and Locarno.
He began his film career as a sound engineer in Kolkata's New Theatre in 1946. In 1950 he got the opportunity of working at Pinewood Studios in the UK where he spent two years.
On returning to India, he turned his attention to film directing, making films in Bengali, Hindi and also Oriya.
He made three films based on Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore's works: Kabuliwala, Khudito Pashan and Atithi.. Shri Sinha's cinematic landscape traverses a journey that began with Ankush (1954) and highlighted by Upahar (1955), Tonsil (1956), Louhakapat (1957), Kalomati (1957), Hansuli Banker Upakatha (1962), Sagina Mahato (1970), Banchharamer bagan (1980), Adalat O Ekti Meye (1982) Ek Doctor Ki Maut (1991) and Shatabdir Kanya (2001).
