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Filmmaker · Singapore

Phani Majumdar

Died in 1994

Phani Majumdar was born on 28 December 1911 in Faridpur, in Bengal. He graduated in 1930 and worked first as a typist, then entered the service of the filmmaker P. C. Barua as a stenographer, later becoming his assistant and screenwriter, and directed his first film in 1938 for the New Theatres of Calcutta. Settled in Bombay in 1941, he made films there in Hindi and in other languages of India. In the mid-fifties he directed Malay-language films in Singapore for the Shaw brothers, then returned to India. He died on 16 May 1994.

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