Bansi Chandragupta
Production Designer, Award Winner
1924 – 1981
Who was Bansi Chandragupta?
Bansi Chandragupta was an Indian art director and production designer, regarded among the greatest of art directors of Indian film industry. He won Filmfare Best Art Direction Award thrice, for Seema in 1972, for Do Jhoot in 1976 and for Chakra in 1982. He was awarded Evening Standard British Film Award posthumously for "best technical/artistic achievement" in 1983. He was born in 1924 in Sialkot, Punjab, British India and died on 27 June 1981 in Brookhaven, New York, USA.
Chandragupta is most well known as art director/production designer of movies directed by Satyajit Ray. He also worked with renowned film directors like Jean Renoir, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Basu Chatterjee, Ismail Merchant, James Ivory and Aparna Sen.
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- Born
- 1924
Sialkot - Also known as
- Bansi Chandragupt
- Bansi Chandra Gupta
- Bansi Chandra Gupt
- Bansi
- late Bansi Chandra Gupt
- Nationality
- India
- Profession
- Died
- Jun 27, 1981
Brookhaven
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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