Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1896-08-06
Day of Death
1974-11-05
Place of Birth
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]
Ahindra Choudhury
Biography
Ahindra Choudhury (1896-1974) was an Indian actor, director, theatre personality, and co-founder of Photo Play Syndicate, a Kolkata-based art organization for bioscope shows. A winner of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1958, Choudhury was honored by the Government of India in 1963 with the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest Indian civilian award, for his services to the nation. His foray into the movie world was in 1931 with Hrishir Prem, a Jyotish Bandopadhyay film. He retired from acting with Shahjahan, a drama staged on 11 September 1957 at Minerva Theatre, Kolkata. Years later, he appeared in one more film, Shravan Sandhya, in 1974.[8] He acted in 89 films, wrote a screenplay for his maiden venture, Soul of a Slave, and directed two films.
Filmography (33)
Kaleidoscope
1981Nilachaley Mahaprabhu
1957
Shyamali
1956
Chirakumar Sabha
1956
Kankabatir Ghat
1955
Debatra
1955
The Power of Chant
1954
Bratacharini
1954
Datta
1951
Anandamath
1951
Michael Madhusudhan
1950
Dasiputra
1949
Niruddesh
1949
Priyatama
1948
