joy sengupta was played as the female lead in basu chatterjee rajnigandha.
joy sengupta was played as the female lead in basu chatterjee rajnigandha.
the female lead in basu chatterjee rajnigandha was played by?
joy sengupta
director basu chatterjee's original cast was shashi kapoor, sharmila tagore and amitabh bachchan. then he switched to bengali actors, aparna sen and samit bhanja. even classical dancer mallika sarabhai was to be cast as lead, but of her final mba exams clashed and eventually debutante vidya sinha got the role after she responded to one of the ads placed by basu chatterjee.
rajnigandha
basu chatterjee (; born 10 january 1930) is an indian film director and screenwriter. through the 1970s and 1980s, he became associated with what came to be known as middle cinema or middle-of-the-road cinema, with filmmakers such as hrishikesh mukherjee and basu bhattacharya, whom he assisted in "teesri kasam" (1966). like their films, his films also dealt with light-hearted stories of middle-class families often in urban settings, focusing on marital and love relationships, with exceptions such as "ek ruka hua faisla" (1986) and "kamla ki maut" (1989), which delved into social and moral issues. he is best known for his films "us paar", "chhoti si baat" (1975), "chitchor" (1976), "rajnigandha" (1974), "piya ka ghar" (1972), "khatta meetha ", "chakravyuha (1978 film)", "baton baton mein" (1979), "priyatama"(1977), "man pasand", "hamari bahu alka", "shaukeen" (1982), and "chameli ki shaadi" (1986), which was his last commercially successful movie.
basu chatterjee