Basu Khudiram Bose Rash Behari Bose Subhas Chandra Bose Jogesh Chandra Chattopadhyay Chittaranjan Das Jatindra Nath Das Bagha Jatin Badal Gupta Dinesh Gupta Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Bipin Chandra Pal Sudhamoy Pramanick Bidhan Chandra Roy Ashoke Kumar Sen Matangini Hazra Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Sisir Kumar Ghosh Performing arts Artists Directors Satyajit Ray, who won the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 1992, lived in Kolkata and is considered among the greatest directors of film history. Other notable filmmakers from Kolkata include: Nitin Bose Buddhadeb Dasgupta Anik Dutta Kaushik Ganguly Ritwik Ghatak Gautam Ghose Rituparno Ghosh Hrishikesh Mukherjee Srijit Mukherji Shiboprosad Mukherjee Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury Tapan Sinha Aparna Sen Mrinal Sen Manick Sorcar Cinema actors Uttam Kumar Utpal Dutt Soumitra Chatterjee Sabyasachi Chakrabarty Dhritiman Chaterji Tapen Chatterjee Rabi Ghosh Barun Chanda Pahari Sanyal N. Viswanathan Chhabi Biswas Karuna Bannerjee Anil Chatterjee Subir Banerjee Roopa Ganguly Uma Dasgupta Saswata Chatterjee Tarun Kumar Anup Kumar Ashok Kumar Bhanu Bandopadhyay Biswajit Chatterjee Prosenjit Chatterjee Jahor Roy Kanan Devi Sagarika Mukherjee Swastika Mukherjee Razzak Dev, MP, actor and film producer Jeet Ruma Guha Thakurta Ranjit Mallick Mirza Abbas Ali Suchitra Sen Sushmita Sen Moonmoon Sen Riya Sen Raima Sen Reema Sen Omar Sani Victor Banerjee Parambrata Chatterjee Konkona Sen Sharma Varsha Ashwathi Abhishek Chatterjee Tathagata Mukherjee Monali Thakur, singer and actress. Ankush Hazra Yash Dasgupta Bonny Sengupta Nusrat Jahan, MP and actress Mimi Chakraborty, MP and actress Anirban Bhattacharya Sayani Gupta Theatre figures Rudraprasad Sengupta, actor and director. Sambhu Mitra, actor and director. Girishchandra Ghosh father of Bengali theatre Photographers Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri Benu Sen Sunil Das Sunil Janah Composers Jeet Ganguly Kabir Suman Salil Chowdhury Rahul Dev Burman Shashi Preetam Sachin Dev Burman Bappi Lahiri Shantanu Moitra Pritam Hemanta Mukhopadhyay Nachiketa Ghosh Sudhin Dasgupta Shreyan Chattopadhyay Anupam Roy Anjan Dutt Jaimin Rajani Pankaj Mullick Anil Biswas Nachiketa Ghosh Shyamal Mitra Hindustani classical singers/maestros Ustad Allauddin Khan Ustad Ali Akbar Khan Pandit Ravi Shankar Ananda Shankar Ustad Vilayat Khan Pandit Jasraj Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Rashid Khan Naina Devi Pandit Nikhil Banerjee Ustad Amjad Ali Khan Ustad Bahadur Khan Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty Anjan Chattopadhyay Hindustani classical instrumentalists Jyoti Goho Sourabh Goho Other singers Dwijendra Lal Roy Suprakash Chaki K. C. Dey Gauhar Jan Pankaj Mullick Kanan Devi Kanika Bandyopadhyay Suchitra Mitra Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay Manabendra Mukhopadhyay Manna Dey Kishore Kumar Sandhya Mukhopadhyay Debabrata Biswas Begum Akhtar Usha Uthup Indrani Sen Ruma Guha Thakurta