Diptendu Pramanick

Entrepreneur

Birthday July 18, 1910

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace India

DEATH DATE Dec 15, 1989 (79)

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About

Founder and Secretary of the Eastern India Motion Pictures Association who helped extend the influence of Bengali cinema.

Before Fame

He was the Secretary to the then-Mayor of Calcutta Sri Santosh Kumar Basu.

Trivia

His legacy lived on through the Diptendu Pramanick Book Fund. Every year children from the Bardhaman district would receive schoolbooks from this fund.

Family Life

His father Sudhamoy Pramanick was a prominent lawyer.

Associated With

He helped to organize the First International Film Festival of India in 1952, which was attended by world-famous American director Frank Capra.