Bengali filmmaker Tarun Majumdar has passed away aged 92.
Padma Shri awardee film director Tarun Majumdar breathed his last at the age of 92 on Monday in Kolkata.
Celebrated Indian cinema director Tarun Majumdar has passed away. The Padma Shri awardee breathed his last at 11:17am. He was 92 years old.
Majumdar was admitted in SSKM Hospital in Kolkata from 14th June with multiple organ malfunction ailments. His condition deteriorated since yesterday, following which he was put on ventilation support.
Majumdar won four National Awards and five Filmfare awards for his work. He was honoured with the Padma Shri in 1990.
He made blockbusters such as Balika Badhu (1967), Kuheli (1971), Shriman Prithviraj (1973), Fuleswari (1974), Dadar Kirti (1980), Bhalobasa Bhalobasa (1985) and Apan Amar Apan (1990). His wife Sandhya Roy starred in twenty of his films and Tapas Paul in eight. Moushumi Chatterjee, Mahua Roychoudhury, Ayan Banerjee and Tapas Paul were introduced by him to the silver screen.
