Tapan Sinha
2 October 1924 - 15 January 2009
Writer/Director
A revered Indian writer-director, Sinha scored a breakthrough hit with Kabuliwala (1956) and went to direct his Tagore trilogy, later winning acclaim for prison drama Louhakapat (1957). He also worked in Hindi cinema with Bollywood stars, and won a UNICEF award for his final feature Ek Doctor Ki Maut (1991).