Once Amar Chaudhary’s residence was, who directed the first Tockey film in Bengali. , Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

When German filmmaker Win Vendors recently visited Kolkata, he visited Bishop Parooy Road – Satijit Ray’s house, one of the most famous residences in the city. But many people of Kolkata do not know that Ray also lived in some other houses in the city, or that some of the biggest names associated with Indian cinema still lived in the neighborhood wearing from time to time.

Now a digital archive has located many icons, Bollywood or Bengali houses associated with Kolkata. The discovery was conducted during the epidemic when mostly uninhabited on the streets and for the benefit of interested people, a directory was fully made with related information. Whether it is Amitabh Bachchan or YouTal Dutt or Bappi Lahiri, now you know that they actually lived in a city of happiness during their years.

Digital platform

“What do you remember, stays. What is stored, ends. Despite our collective apathy and passion for cinema, efforts to document the history of 20th century films of Bengal have been inadequate. The epidemic served as a wake-up call. As a group of emotional film enthusiasts, we created a digital platform to inspire both the cast and the audience, ”said a spokesman of the Bengal Film Archive (BFA), who said, a bile of information related to Bengali films and documentaries There is an online repository.

“Most of them are unaware that Ray Bishop lived in at least four houses before one on Leproy Road. He was born on Garpar Road, and the family later shifted to Bakul Bagan Road. Pathar panchali When he lived on Lake Avenue, was built. Lake Temple Road Flat, where he lived for some time later, also did actor Soumitra Chatterjee as a tenant later, ”said a BFA spokesperson.

This information about homes is just one section of the website – including trivia, articles, interviews, biographical drawings – and according to the enthusiast Heritage and heritage. “Abroad, legend’s residences are carefully preserved and often serve as major tourist attractions. However, in Bengal, only a handful of a handful of our luminaries residences are cognitive, ”the spokes.

Now one knows, thanks for the Bengal film collection, that young Amitabh Bachchan, when he lived in Kolkata, working with Bird & Co., initially his father’s student Pandit Vijay in Allahabad in national towers on 13 loudon street Stopped with Kichlu. Mr. Kichlu later arranged for a guest housing for Mr. Bachchan on the floor below.

Where they lived

Director Rishikesh Mukherjee, who always came to Kolkata during Durga Puja, lived on Roopchand Mukherjee Lane next to Brati Cinema in South Kolkata. Singer Bappi Lahiri, born in Kolkata, spent his early childhood in Bansadroni; The house is in a dilapidated position today. The director and screenwriter Ritvik Ghatak was initially a actor’s neighbor before going to the producer Pramod Gangopadhyay House located behind the freengan. After the arrival of Surma Ghatak Kolkata, the couple started living in this house on Gangapada Mukherjee Road. This was the house that served as a place for Bhrigu’s residence Gentle gathered,

During the search, the “most heart-hearted” experience for the creators of the collection was experience. Jamai SashtiThe first Talki of Bengali cinema released in 1931. “His house on Gangprasad Mukherjee Road is in the position of a dikripit and Ramshakal. Kolkata Municipal Corporation has pasted a ‘dangerous building’ board on its front,” the spokesperson said

When the members of the BFA team reached Tala Park and started inquiring about the one -time address of the late director Tapan Sinha, they were asked to wait by the local people as Tapan Sinha was out at work and in a few hours will come back. It was discovered that he was talking about a name that was a wholesa dealer of potato and lived in the same neighborhood.