Remembering P C Barua, the legendary writer, actor and filmmaker of Indian cinema

Remembering P C Barua, the legendary writer, actor and filmmaker of Indian cinema, on his 69th death anniversary.

The now-forgotten actor and filmmaker, Pramathesh Chandra Barua, entered films at a time when Indian cinema and its filmmakers were shaping its identity. Barua himself had a big hand in leaving his own indelible mark in the annals of Indian film history. Skilled in all aspects of filmmaking, Barua was Bengali cinema’s biggest star. When he appeared as Devdas in Dhaka, all the cinema houses were shut as the whole city wanted to see him in person performing on stage. One of the pioneers of Indian film industry, P.C.Barua is best known for his work ‘Devdas’. Barua’s other film ventures were Manzil (1936), Mukti (1937), Adhikar (1938), Rajat Jayanti (1939), and Zindagi (1940). He left the New Theatres film studio in 1939 and started freelancing. Later he created Shesh Uttar/Jawab in 1942.

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