Prabhat Roy (; born 1946 in Jamshedpore) is a former Indian director who is known for his work in Bengali cinema. Winner of two National Awards, he is known for handling social issues in his directorial ventures Shwet Patharer Thala (1992), Sandhyatara (1994) and Lathi (1996).
He began his career as an assistant director in the early 1970s. He claimed to fame after his directorial venture Protidan (1983) starring Sharmila Tagore, Ranjit Mallick, Victor Banerjee and Naseeruddin Shah emerged to be a major box office success. He made commercial blockbusters such as Pratikar (1987), Pratik (1988), Lathi (1996) and Shubhodrishti (2005). Other than feature films, he directed 16 telefilms and 3 TV series. He introduced June Malia and Priyanka Trivedi to showbiz.
Early life Prabhat lived in Barrackpore, North 24 parganas, West Bengal but born in Jamshedpur. Prabhat studied at Ramakrishna Mission Siksha Mandir, Sarisha.He holds a bachelor's degree in Commerce from Maharaja Manindra Chandra College.
Awards AwardYearCategoryFilmResultNational Award1993Best Feature Film on Family WelfareShwet Pathorer Thala1997Lathi2005Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome EntertainmentSubhodrishtiLux ETV Award2005Best FilmManikAnandalok Award2006Best FilmShubhodrishti7th Filmfare Awards Bangla2024Lifetime achievement Award Kalakar Award
Filmography
As a director YearTitleCastLanguageFeature filmTV series1983ProtidanSharmila Tagore, Ranjit Mullick, Victor Banerjee, Nasiruddin Shah, Lily Chakravarty, Anamika Saha1985Bandhan AnjanaSharmila Tagore Hindi1986ZindaganiMithun Chakraborty, Rati Agnihotri, RaakheeHindi1987PratikarChiranjeet Chakraborty, Shakuntala Barua, Victor Banerjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Satabdi Roy, Debashree Roy, Biplab Chatterjee1988PratikChiranjeet Chakraborty, Soumitra Chatterjee, Raakhee, Tapas Paul, Roopa Ganguly, Papiya Adhikari1989Aamar ShapathPrasenjit Chatterjee, Shatabdi Roy1989AgnitrishnaChiranjeet Chakraborty, Ranjit Mallick, Madhabi Mukherjee, Roopa Ganguly, Satabdi Roy1989Hum Intezaar KarengeMithun Chakraborty, Padmini KolhapureHindi1989Pronomi TomayArjun Chakraborty, Reshma Singh, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Sumitra Mukherjee, Biplab Chatterjee1990PapiChiranjeet Chakraborty, Debashree Roy, Abhishek Chatterjee, Pallavi Chatterjee. Dipankar Dey, Kaushik Banerjee, Indrani Dutta1992AnutapRaj Babbar, Debashree Roy, Rabi Ghosh, Anup Kumar. Soumitra Bannerjee, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Nirmal Kumar1992Shwet Paatharer ThalaAparna Sen, Dipankar Dey, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Indrani Haldar, Rituparna Sengupta, Dilip Roy, Haradhan Bandopadhyay, Meenakshi Goswami, Lily Chakravarty, Bhaskar Banerjee, Gopa Aich, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhya1993Duranta PremDeepak Sharma, Chandana Sen, Tapas Paul, Rachna Banerjee, Tota Roy Choudhury, Dolon Roy, Subhendu Chatterjee, Shakuntala Barua1994SandhyataraSabyasachi Chakraborty, Debashree Roy, Manoj Mitra, Uttam Mohanty, Sumanta Mukherjee1995AndolanRituparna Sengupta1996LathiVictor Banerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Abhishek Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Satabdi Roy, Rituparna Sengupta, Pallavi Chatterjee, Dulal Lahiri, Dipankar De, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Haradhan Banerjee, Manoj Mitra, Nirmal Kumar, Kaushik Banerjee, Bodhisattva majumdar, Debika Mitra, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Gita Dey, Tota Roy Choudhury, June Malia, Pushpita Mukherjee, Koushik Sen1997JoddhaChiranjeet, Debashree Roy, Tapas Paul, Abhishek Chatterjee, Priyanka Trivedi, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Lily Chakravarty1997Sedin ChaitramasSanjib Das Gupta, Indrani Dutta, Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (actress), Dipankar De1999KhelagharSupriya Devi, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Sreelekha Mitra, Abhishek Chatterjee, Pallavi Chatterjee1999Shudhu Ekbar BoloProsenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Mouli Ganguly1999Tumi Ele Tai Victor Banerjee, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Tapas Paul, Anuradha Roy, Santu Mukherjee, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Arpita Chatterjee2000Shesh Thikana Supriya Devi, Jaya Seal Ghosh, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Shakuntala Barua2005Ek Mutho Chhabi Rajatabha Dutta, Sreelekha Mitra, June Malia, Arunima Ghosh, Roopa Ganguly, Indrani Halder, Pallavi Chatterjee, Samata Das, Monami Ghosh, Biplab Chatterjee, Moumita Gupta, Bikram Ghosh, Kunal Mitra, Koushik Sen, Dilip Roy2005Manik Jeet, Koel Mallick, Ranjit Mallick, Debdoot Ghosh, Samata Das, Shyamal Dutta, Biplab Chatterjee, Rajesh Sharma, Monu Mukherjee2005Shubhodrishti Jeet, Koel Mallick, Parambrata Chatterjee, Sanjib Dasgupta, Bharat Kaul, Laboni Sarkar, Biswajit Chakraborty, Dilip Ray2006PriyotamaJeet, Swastika Mukherjee, Laboni Sarkar2007PitribhumiJeet, Swastika Mukherjee.Lily Chakravarty, Shakuntala Barua2010Hangover Prosenjit Chatterjee, Subhra Kundu, Joy Kumar Mukherjee, Sayantika Banerjee, Subhashish Mukherjee, Biplab Chatterjee, Supriyo Dutta2011Bhorer AloPriyanshu Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Rohit Roy, Anusmriti Sarkar2015Birat 22
He also directed 16 telefilms & 3 TV Series.
Assistant Director
Actor Abhimanyu (1989) Amanush (1975)
Legacy Book Clapstick : Autobiography of Prabhat Roy
References
External links
Prabhat Roy at citwf Prabhat Roy at upperstall