P. C. Barua

Pramathesh Chandra Barua was born in October 1903 in Gauripur, in Assam, the son of the raja of that estate. A graduate of the Presidency College in Calcutta in 1924, he discovered cinema in Europe, sat in the Assam legislative assembly, then became an actor. After a stay at the Elstree studios, he founded his own company in Calcutta, joined New Theatres in 1932 and left it in 1939. Ravaged by alcohol and tuberculosis, he died on 29 November 1951.

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• CinemaDevdasদেবদাসP. C. Barua · 1935Cinema