Suman Mukhopadhyay or Suman Mukherjee is a prominent contemporary India

India

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n filmmaker and a theatre director.

Career

He has done theatre productions ranging from European drama to major adaptations of Bengali masterpieces. Among which are Teesta Paarer Brittanto  and Samay Asamayer Brittanto, adapted from the novels by Debesh Roy and Mephisto

Mephisto

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, based on Klaus Mann

Klaus Mann

- Life and work :Born in Munich, Klaus Mann was the son of German writer Thomas Mann and his wife, Katia Pringsheim. His father was baptized as a Lutheran, while his mother was from a family of secular Jews. He began writing short stories in 1924 and the following year became drama critic for a...

's German novel. Teesta has become one of the most celebrated productions of the Bengali stage. He has also staged Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...

's Raktakarabi; Falguni-Prelude, Shakespeare/Brecht's Coriolanus

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 and Sudraka

Sudraka

' was an Indian King. Three Sanskrit plays are ascribed to him - Mricchakatika , Vinavasavadatta, and a bhana , Padmaprabhritaka.. He has been identified as Abhira King Indranigupta, who used the pen name Sudraka.- References :* Ryder, Arthur William. Translator...

's The Little Clay Cart. He directed The Man of the Heart (Life and times of Lalon Fokir) at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 and Girish Karnad

Girish Karnad

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's Nagamandala at the Department of Theatre, Kalamazoo College

Kalamazoo College

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, Michigan

Michigan

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. In 2007 he directed Fireface, a play by Marius von Mayenburg

Marius von Mayenburg

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 in association with the Goethe Institut. 'Man of the Heart' was invited to Barbican Centre, London.

His first cinematic directorial debut film was Herbert

Herbert (2005 film)

Herbert is a 2005 Bengali-language film that was directed by veteran theatre director Suman Mukhopadhyay. It was based on Nabarun Bhattacharya's Sahitya Akademi Award winning novel of the same name.-Awards:This film won the following awards:...

which was released in 2005. Herbert won the National Award for Best Bengali film

National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali

The Indian National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali winners:...

. As a theatre director his last two productions are William Shakespeare's 'King Lear' and Rabindranath Tagore's 'Bisarjan'.

His last film 'Mahanagar@Kolkata' was completed in 2009. The film was screened in Munich, Kerala and New York film festivals. His second film 'Chaturanga', based on Tagore's novel, was completed in 2008 and premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival

Montreal World Film Festival

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. Chaturanga was screened in 36 national and international festivals. The film received a Gran Prix award at Bridgefest, Sarajevo; the Best Director award at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival and the Golden Palm at Mexico International Film Festival.

Feature Films

• Mahanagar@Kolkata (2009)
• Chaturanga (2008)
• Herbert (2005 film)
  Herbert (2005 film)
  Herbert is a 2005 Bengali-language film that was directed by veteran theatre director Suman Mukhopadhyay. It was based on Nabarun Bhattacharya's Sahitya Akademi Award winning novel of the same name.-Awards:This film won the following awards:...
  
  (2005)

Awards

The film received Gran Prix at Bridgefest, Sarajevo; Best Director at Philadelphia Independent Film Festival and Golden Palm at Mexico International Film Festival.

External links

• www.sumanmukhopadhyay.com