Bijon Bhattacharya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bijon Bhattacharya

Indian actor

Date of Birth: 17-Jul-1917

Place of Birth: Faridpur District, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh

Date of Death: 19-Jan-1978

Profession: actor, writer

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Bijon Bhattacharya (Bengali: ???? ??????????) (17 July 1915 – 19 January 1978) was a prominent Indian theatre and film personality from Bengal.Bhattacharya was born in 1915 at Faridpur (now in Bangladesh) to a Hindu, Bengali Brahmin family, and was an early witness to the destitution and penury of the peasantry of that land.
He became a member of the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA), a left-leaning group of artists who aimed at reflecting the suffering of the poor in their work to effect an improvement for them. One of Bijon's most celebrated plays, Nabanna (Harvest), based on the Bengal famine of 1943, was an IPTA production, and an inspiration of the film Dharti Ke Lal, which he co-wrote with film's director Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, another IPTA member.
He died on 19 January 1978.