Career Highlights
- Debaki Bose was a top Indian film director in his time. During this period, many of the Bengali fims made by him were also released in Hindi and even in Marathi and Tamil.
- Chandidas(1932), directed by him, contained background Music for the first time in Indian Cinema. Music Director was Raichand Boral, also known as R.C. Boral.
- Seeta (1934), made under the banner of East India Film Company, was the first Indian talkie shown in any international film festival. It was shown in Venice Film Festival, where it won an Honorary Diploma. He was the 1st Indian director to receive any international award.
- Sagar Sangamey (1959) was nominated for Golden Bear at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival (1959). This film got National Film Award for Best Feature Film at the 6th National Film Awards ceremony in 1959.
- Arghya (1961) was a very special documentary film, produced by the Government of West Bengal on the occasion of Rabindranath Tagore's birth centennial. It was based on four poems of Tagore: Pujarini, Puratan Bhritya, Abhisar and Dui Bigha Jami.
- He received Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Film Direction in 1957.
- He received Padma Shri in Arts in 1958.
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