Basuda, the producers’ delight, the ‘fallen’ man, and my personal courier service!...Nandita Puri remembers Basu Chatterjee

Hindustan Times | ByNandita Puri

Jun 07, 2020 02:23 AM IST

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His movies delighted everyone who grew up with Hindi cinema. That was because Basu Chatterjee himself was joy personified.

I had two Basudas in my life. One was Basu Bhattacharya, who passed away in 1997. The other was Basu Chatterjee, who died last Thursday at 93. Coincidentally Chatterjee cut his teeth in filmmaking as an assistant under Bhattacharya in Raj Kapoor’s Teesri Kasam.

Filmmaker Basu Chatterjee passed away at age 93 last Thursday

Some of the popular films made by Basu Chatterjee include

“Om Puri wrote in his biography, ‘Basuda was an economic filmmaker, used a lot of zoom, and compromised on locations. He was a producer’s delight!”

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