BN Sircar centenary celebrations on Nov 18

Birendranath Sircar, founder of Calcutta’s New Theatres and creator of several immortal stars of cinema, is a man whose footprints are imprinted in the annals of Indian motion-picture history for his contribution to the development of Indian cinema.

His birth centenary is to be celebrated by Cine Society, one of India’s oldest film societies, on Novembeer 18 in Mumbai. Speakers at the press conference to announce this recalled Sircar’s dedication and devotion to achieving the highest aesthetic standards in cinema. New Theatres Studio came up in Tolleyganj, a suburb of Calcutta in February 1931 with Sircar at the helm of affairs along with a talented team of Nitin Bose, Mukul Bose, RC Boral, Pankaj Mullick, Amar Mullick, Yusuf Mulji, Uma Shashi and KL Saigal. Later to join them were Prithviraj Kapoor, Kanandevi, Chandravati, Jagdish Sethi, Molinadevi, Bimal Roy, Hemchandra and Kidar Sharma as directors, Benoy Chatterjee and Subodh Mitra as script writers and editors respectively. Its first film in Bengali was Dena Paona followed by the first Hindi film, Mohabbat Ke Ansoo.

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