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If a film were made of the life of Vivien Leigh, it would open in India just before World War I, where a successful British businessman could live like a prince. In the mountains above Calcutta, a little princess is born. Because of the outbreak of World War I, she is six years old the first time her parents take her to England. Her mother thinks she should have a proper English upbringing and insists on leaving her in a convent school - even though Vivien is two years younger than any of the other girls at the school. The only comfort for the lonely child is a cat that was in the courtyard of the school that the nuns let her take up to her dormitory. Her first and best friend at the school is an eight-year-old girl, Maureen O'Sullivan who has been transplanted from Ireland. In the bleakness of a convent school, the two girls can recreate in their imaginations the places they have left and places where they would some day like to travel. After Vivien has been at the school for 18 months, her mother comes again from India and takes her to a play in London. In the next six months Vivien will insist on seeing the same play 16 times. In India the British community entertained themselves at amateur theatricals and Vivien's father was a leading man. Pupils at the English convent school are eager to perform in school plays. It's an all-girls school, so some of the girls have to play the male roles. The male roles are so much more adventurous. Vivien's favorite actor is Leslie Howard, and at 19 she marries an English barrister who looks very much like him. The year is 1932. Vivien's best friend from that convent school has gone to California, where she's making movies. Vivien has an opportunity to play a small role in an English film, Things Are Looking Up (1935). She has only one line but the camera keeps returning to her face. The London stage is more exciting than the movies being filmed in England, and the most thrilling actor on that stage is Laurence Olivier. At a party Vivien finds out about a stage role, "The Green Sash", where the only requirement is that the leading lady be beautiful. The play has a very brief run, but now she is a real actress. An English film is going to be made about Elizabeth I. Laurence gets the role of a young favorite of the queen who is sent to Spain. Vivien gets a much smaller role as a lady-in-waiting of the queen who is in love with Laurence's character. In real life, both fall in love while making this film, Fire Over England (1937). In 1938, Hollywood wants Laurence to play Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (1939). Vivien, who has just recently read Gone with the Wind (1939), thinks that the role of Scarlett O'Hara is the first role for an actress that would be really exciting to bring to the screen. She sails to America for a brief vacation. In New York she gets on a plane for the first time to rush to California to see Laurence. They have dinner with Myron Selznick the night that his brother, David O. Selznick, is burning Atlanta on a backlot of MGM (actually they are burning old sets that go back to the early days of silent films to make room to recreate an Atlanta of the 1860s). Vivien is 26 when Gone with the Wind (1939) makes a sweep of the Oscars in 1939. So let's show 26-year-old Vivien walking up to the stage to accept her Oscar and then as the Oscar is presented the camera focuses on Vivien's face and through the magic of digitally altering images, the 26-year-old face merges into the face of Vivien at age 38 getting her second Best Actress Oscar for portraying Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). She wouldn't have returned to America to make that film had not Laurence been going over there to do a film, Carrie (1952) based on Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie". Laurence tells their friends that his motive for going to Hollywood to make films is to get enough money to produce his own plays for the London stage. He even has his own theater there, the St. James. Now Sir Laurence, with a seat in the British House of Lords, is accompanied by Vivien the day the Lords are debating about whether the St James should be torn down. Breaking protocol, Vivien speaks up and is escorted from the House of Lords. The publicity helps raise the funds to save the St. James. Throughout their two-decade marriage Laurence and Vivien were acting together on the stage in London and New York. Vivien was no longer Lady Olivier when she performed her last major film role, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961).- Actor
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Erick Avari was born on April 13, 1952 in Darjeeling, India. His credits include leading roles in films from Kevin Reynolds' cult classic The Beast of War (1988) to commercial megahits such as Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), The Mummy (1999) and Planet of the Apes (2001). His comedic skills have landed him starring roles in the Adam Sandler remake Mr. Deeds (2002), For Love or Money (1993) and Woody Allen's only television film Don't Drink the Water (1994). He is also featured in Revelation (2002), The Glass House (2001) and has a starring role in Michael Meredith's Three Days of Rain (2002) and Dancing in Twilight (2007). His long theatrical background has garnered him critical acclaim for several roles at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre in New York City, including his portrayal of Vasquez in "'Tis Pity She's a Whore" and the Broadway hit, "The King and I".
Avari has had the pleasure of performing in some of the most prestigious regional theatres in the country, including The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Chicago's Goodman Theater and The Cleveland Playhouse, playing roles such as the King in "King Lear" and Joseph Smith in the Mabou Mines production of "The Morman Project". On television, in addition to his recurring role as Kasuf on Stargate SG-1 (1997), he has played notable roles on Heroes (2006), Cybill (1995), Cheers (1982), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), Murder, She Wrote (1984), NYPD Blue (1993) and several made-for-television films.- Anna Kashfi has appeared in a number of films including The Mountain (1956) (with Spencer Tracy) and Battle Hymn (1957) (with Rock Hudson) but is best known for being Marlon Brando's first wife. Kashfi is often thought of as being Indian but several newspapers have said that she is, in fact, the daughter of a Welsh factory worker, William Callaghan, and simply reinvented herself to increase her screen appeal. In her 1979 memoir, Kashfi still held onto the claim that she is Indian by insisting that she is the product of an "unregistered alliance" between Selma Ghose and an Indian architect named Devi Kashfi, and that William Callaghan is her stepfather. She met Brando in 1955 in the Paramount commissary and after an on-off relationship (mainly due to Brando's relentless womanizing) married him in 1957. (Brando claimed that he married her only because she had become pregnant.) She gave birth in May 1958 to their son, Christian, who became notorious in 1990 for shooting dead Dag Drollet, a crime that earned him a ten-year jail sentence. Kashfi divorced Brando in 1959. She remarried a Los Angeles businessman named James Hannaford in 1974, but he died in 1987. She also outlived her first husband Marlon Brando (who died in 2004) and their son Christian (who died in 2008). She died on August 16, 2015 of natural causes at the age of 80 in Washington State, USA.
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Pawo Choyning Dorji was born on 23 June 1983 in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. He is a producer and director, known for The Monk and the Gun (2023), Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019) and Tales of Taipei (2023).- Director
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Born in the tea estates of Darjeeling, India, award-winning filmmaker Sudhanshu Saria earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Film and Photography from Ithaca College in New York.
His previous film work has premiered festivals such as Hollyshorts and Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, taken him to Berlinale Talent Campus and been featured on NPR and Good Morning America.
LOEV, his feature writing and directing debut, world premiered in competition at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and became the first Indian title to premiere, in competition, at SXSW. The film was also screened at BFI Flare, Jeonju, Frameline and a host of other festivals besides winning the Audience Award for Best Feature at the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival. The film was acquired by Netflix for an exclusive worldwide release.
His New Hands had its world premiere in competition at the Hong Kong International Film Festival, and was awarded the prestigious Remi Gold Prize for Best Dramatic Short at the WorldFest-Houston International Festival and the Best Film prize at Flyway Film Festival. It was also screened at more than twenty-five film festivals around the world including Sarasota, Omaha, Heartland Film Festivals and the Chennai International Film Festival. It was also selected by the RED Camera on its annual showcase of 25 best films shot on the platform as well as awarded the Best Cinematography prize at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival.
Knock Knock Knock, a medium length piece he wrote, directed, edited and co-produced with California Pictures, received it's world premiere in the prestigious Wide Angle section of the Busan Int'l Film Festival and had its European Premiere in a section alongside Yorgos Lanthimos and Peter Strickland at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. It won the Remi Gold for Best Dramatic film at WorldFest Houston, the Best Screenplay award at the New York Indian Film Festival. Knock has been acquired for a worldwide release by MUBI.
He is engaged as Showrunner, Writer and Director on a one-hour drama series for Amazon Prime and has several feature films in various stages of development and production.
Before turning to telling his own stories, Sudhanshu worked as an acquisitions, development and sales executive for US based companies like New Films International and Peace Arch Entertainment where he helped develop, presale, finance and distribute a diverse range of film and television projects in partnership with broadcasters and distributors around the world.- June Malia was born on 24 June 1970 in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. She is an actress, known for Har Har Byomkesh (2015), Zulfiqar (2016) and Porobashinee (2017). She has been married to Sourabh Chattopadhyay since 30 November 2020.
- Sylvia Coleridge was born on 10 December 1909 in Darjeeling, India. She was an actress, known for Tess (1979), Masterpiece Theatre: Bleak House (1985) and Pride and Prejudice (1967). She was married to Albert George Fiddes Watt. She died on 31 May 1986 in London, England, UK.
- Sally Nesbitt was born on 1 October 1938 in Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, British India. She is an actress, known for The Avengers (1961), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982) and Theatre Night (1957). She has been married to Richard Nigel Spink since 2000. She was previously married to Robert Nisbet and Peter Crouch.
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Hazel Adair was born on 9 July 1920 in Darjeeling, India. She was a writer and producer, known for Can You Keep It Up for a Week? (1974), Virgin Witch (1971) and Crossroads (1964). She was married to Ronald Marriott and Gordon Mackenzie. She died on 22 November 2015 in the UK.- Sumita Sanyal was born as Manjula Sanyal in October 9, 1945 in Darjeeling. She has acted in over 50 Bengali movies and a few Hindi Movies like Anand(1971), Guddi(1971), Aashirwad(1968) and Mere Apne(1971). Notably, she worked in a Bengali film with Dilip Kumar called Sagina Mahato. She also acted in television and theater
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Arnab Chaudhuri was born on 5 October 1971 in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. Arnab was a writer and director, known for Arjun: The Warrior Prince (2012), Lovers Lane (2016) and Oye Golu (2017). Arnab died on 25 December 2019 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.- Actor
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Pahadi Sanyal was born on 22 February 1906 in Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, British India [now Darjeeling, West Bengal, India]. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Sapurey (1939), Maya (1936) and Maya (1936). He died on 10 February 1974 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India.- Special Effects
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Roy Pomeroy was born on 20 April 1892 in Darjeeling, India. He was a director, known for Shock (1934), Inside the Lines (1930) and Interference (1928). He was married to Sylvia. He died on 3 September 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Born 1955 Lyndam moved with his parents and brother Eric from his native India to England in the early 1960s. On leaving school he worked in a bank but had acting aspirations and trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. His first stage role was in 'The Blue Monster' directed by Nick Barter, later head of RADA. In 1984 he married Christine, whom he had met at a church club in Harrow, and they had a daughter Dominique. On television he appeared in numerous popular shows including roles in 'East Enders' and 'Coronation Street' though will probably be best remembered for the medical sitcom 'Surgical Spirit' which ran from 1989 to 1992, as one of the doctors on the receiving end of the sharp tongue of Nicola McAuliffe's Sheila Sabatini.
- Gerald Fielding was born on 6 July 1910 in Darjeeling, India. He was an actor, known for The Garden of Allah (1927), The Scarlet Empress (1934) and I Take This Woman (1931). He died on 3 June 1956 in Encino, California, USA.
- Tripti Nadakar was born on 2 January 1969 in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. She is an actress, known for Kusume Rumal (1985), Lahure (1989) and Kusume Rumal 2 (2010).
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Bhaskar Bhattacharyya was born on 4 June 1950 in Darjeeling, India. He was an assistant director, known for The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Great Railway Journeys of the World (1980) and Bénarès: Les Pèlerins du Raga (1979). He was married to Rohini Pathania. He died on 10 February 2006 in Madras, India.- Composer
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Amber Gurung was born on 26 February 1938 in Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, British India. She was a composer, known for Man ko bandh (1973), Jeevan Rekha (1982) and Mero Dukhi Mana (2016). She died on 7 June 2016 in Kathmandu, Nepal.- Director
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Nishant Kumar Mohapatra, professionally known as Mr Cr00dz or The Cr00dz is a YouTuber, EDM producer, verified artist, and musician based in Odisha, India. Mr Cr00dz is best known for his singles "A Lonely Rain", "I Like Reverb", "Pained Lies" and "Every Breath You Take" which got him over 5000 streams on Spotify and other music streaming platforms. After building a solid presence in the music industry, he created a YouTube channel he uses for music and also to teach, provide tips, guide, and help fellow producers & artists fit in the world of Music.