Niranjan Pal
Niranjan Pal (17 August 1889 – 9 November 1959) was a playwright, screenwriter and director in the Indian film industry in the silent and early talkie days. He was a close associate of Himanshu Rai and Franz Osten, with whom he was a founding member of Bombay Talkies.
Biography
Born on 17 August 1889 in Calcutta, West Bengal, Niranjan Pal was born in an illustrious family, his father was the noted freedom fighter, Bipin Chandra Pal, and Niranjan himself as a teenager was briefly involved in the Indian freedom struggle during an association with Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and Madanlal Dhingra in London. By the late 1910s, he started writing and eventually wrote The Light of Asia and Shiraz, both of which were performed on stage in London. Both were commercially successful and attracted the attention of German filmmaker Franz Osten, who made screen versions in India. Himanshu Rai, then a lawyer, also acted in one of Niranjan Pal's plays Goddess also performed in London, though some sources suggest that it was Devika Rani who first met him, through their common Brahmo Samaj connections, which paved way for his eventual stake in the creation of Bombay Talkies.
Pal, Niranjan Filmography
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2010, role: actor
Pal, Niranjan Filmography
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1951, role: director
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1941, role: director
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1941, role: director
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1941, role: director
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1940, role: director
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1940, role: director
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1939, role: director
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1939, role: director
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1937, role: writer
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1937, role: writer
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1937, role: writer
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1936, role: writer
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1936, role: writer
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1936, role: writer
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1936, role: writer
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1936, role: writer
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1935, role: writer
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1935, role: writer
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1932, role: director
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1932, role: director
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1931, role: writer
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1931, role: director
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1931, role: director
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1930, role: director
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1929, role: writer
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1929, role: writer
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1925, role: writer
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1915, role: writer
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1915, role: writer
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