Bimal Roy moved to Calcutta and entered the field of cinema as a camera assistant with New Theatres Pvt. Ltd. . During this time , he assisted director P.C. Barua as Publicity Photographer , on the hit 1935 film '' Devdas '' , starring K.L. Saigal . In the 1940s and 1950s Roy was part of the parallel cinema movement in post-war India . He collaborated on '' Anjangarh '' ( 1948 ) , one of the last major films of the New Theatres , however , the Kolkata-based film industry was now on the decline , thus Roy shifted his base to Bombay ( now Mumbai ) , along with his team in 1950 , which included Hrishikesh Mukherjee ( editor ) , Nabendu Ghosh ( screenwriter ) , Asit Sen ( assistant director ) , Kamal Bose ( cinematographer ) and later , Salil Chaudhury ( music director ) , and by 1952 he had restarted the second phase of his career with '' Maa '' ( 1952 ) , for Bombay Talkies . He was famous for his romantic-realist melodramas that took on important social issues while still being entertaining . He was a filmmaker of great and in-depth understanding of human strengths and weaknesses . In 1959 , he was a member of the jury at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival
1st Moscow International Film Festival
1st Moscow International Film Festival
Bimal Roy