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Bijon Bhattacharya
1915Jul, 17

Bijon Bhattacharya

Bijon Bhattacharya, Indian actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1978)
Bijon Bhattacharya (Bengali: বিজন ভট্টাচার্য) (17 July 1906 – 19 January 1978) was an Indian theatre and film actor from West Bengal.He was an eminent playwright and dramatist.

Bhattacharya was born in 1906 at Faridpur (now in Bangladesh) to a Hindu, Bengali Brahmin family, and was an early witness to the destitution and penury of the peasantry of that land. He became a member of the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA).

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