MUMBAI: Veteran Bengali film director Tarun Majumdar died at a state-run hospital in Kolkata on Monday morning. He was 91 and on ventilator support. The noted film director was suffering from kidney ailments since a long time, and was admitted to the hospital on June 14. His condition deteriorated on late Saturday night, and he had to be put on ventilator support. Majumdar died around 11:15 am today (Monday).

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The veteran filmmaker was hospital in SSKM hospital in Kolkata for almost a week as he was suffering from kidney and heart-related issues. The 92-year-old director is being monitored closely by a team of doctors.

Tarun Majumdar was conferred with the Padma Shri in 1990. He has also won four National Awards and five Filmfare awards in his career, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. Tarun Majumdar debuted as a director in the film industry with Basanta Choudhury in Alor Pipasha in the year 1985.

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Some of Majumdar’s notable works include Balika Badhu (1976), Kuheli (1971), Shriman Prithviraj (1972) and Dadar Kirti (1980). Apart from this, he has worked with several notable actors such as Uttam Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Chhabi Biswas, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sandhya Roy and many more.

Tarun Majumdar’s last work was the 2018 documentary feature film titled Adhikar and another film Bhalobashar Bari released in the same year. Bhalobashar Bari starred Shilajit and Rituparna Sengupta.

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