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  • Dulal Dutta passed away on August 17, 2010 in Kolkata after a cerebral haemmorage he suffered in his home and died at the RN Tagore International Institute of.
  • DUTTA, DulalEditor.
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    Director-editor relationships play a significant role in bringing out a finished film in terms of technique perfectly matched between the former’s perception and the latter’s execution done in an ambience of creative harmony. Director David Cronenberg and editor Ronald Sanders have worked tillsammans since 1979. Director Marc Forster worked with editor Matt Chesse on several films, including The Kite Runner, Finding Neverland and Monster’s Ball. Editor Joel Cox worked with director-actor Clint Eastwood for more than 30 years. Thelma Schoonmaker has been Martin Scorsese’s go-to editor since 1980’s. Brothers Joel and Ethan Coen have been collaborating for decades. Among Indian parallels, we have Hrishikesh Mukherjee who edited almost all Bimal Roy films till he went away to direkt his own films. Ramesh Joshi was a must for director Ritwik Ghatak. But the most outstanding relationship between a director and his editor that has sustained through 36 years t

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    Dutta, Dulal


    Editor. Nationality: Indian. Born: Chandannagar, West Bengal, 1925. Career: Assistant editor in Bombay; 1955—first film as editor, Pather Panchali, by Satyajit Ray; in addition to Ray's films, edited films by Satyen Bose, Asit Sen, Ajoy Kar, Tarun Mazumdar, and others.


    Films as Editor for Satyajit Ray:

    1955

    Pather Panchali (Father Panchali)

    1956

    Aparajito (The Unvanquished)

    1957

    Parash Pathar (The Philosopher's Stone)

    1958

    Jalsaghar (The Music Room)

    1959

    Apur Sansar (The World of Apu)

    1960

    Devi (The Goddess)

    1961

    Rabindranath Tagore (doc); Teen Kanya (Two Daughters)

    1962

    Kanchanjanga; Abhijan (Expedition)

    1963

    Mahanagar (The Big City)

    1964

    Charulata (The Lonely Wife)

    1965

    Kapurush-o-Mahapurush (The Coward and the Saint)

    1966

    Nayak (The Hero)

    1967

    Chiriakhana (The Zoo)

    1969

    Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha)

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    Like most editors of his time and even now,Dulalda rarely made headlines,letting his work speak for him. Dutta lived in a house in a nondescript bylane of Kolkata which,he once recalled in an interview,an actress-singer-producer helped him build by giving away the doors and windows built for the sets of her films. “She chided me for living in a bad house with broken doors. She was an extremely generous person who genuinely felt for her team,” said Dulalda. Aspiring filmmakers and established directors sought his advice.

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    Born in 1925 in Chandannagar,a small town away from Kolkata which was once under French occupation,Dulalda came to the city around the beginning of World War II and worked as a compounder in a charitable dispensary at Alipur. He saw the first film of his life while living in Behala. The film was one from the Hunterwalli series with Nadia in the title-role. “I was fascinated with the film and the medium and suddenly de

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