Kanu Banerjee was an actor of Bengali Cinema

Bengali cinema

Bengali cinema refers to the Bengali language filmmaking industries in the Bengal region of South Asia. There are two major film-making hubs in the region: one in Kolkata, West Bengal, India and the other in Dhaka, Bangladesh .The history of cinema in Bengal dates back to the 1890s, when the first...

. He is best known for his portrayal of Harihar Ray, father of Apu, in Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Ray was born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature...

's Pather Panchali

Pather Panchali

Pather Panchali is a 1955 Bengali drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray and produced by the Government of the Indian state of West Bengal. Based on Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay's 1929 Bengali novel of the same name, the film was the directorial debut of Ray...

(1955) and Aparajito

Aparajito

Aparajito is a 1956 Bengali film directed by Satyajit Ray, and is the second part of The Apu Trilogy. It is adapted from the last one-fifth of Bibhutibhushan Bannerjee's novel Pather Panchali and the first one-third of its sequel Aparajito. It focuses on the life of Apu from childhood to college...

(1956). He was born in Jodhpur

Jodhpur

Jodhpur , is the second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is located west from the state capital, Jaipur and from the city of Ajmer. It was formerly the seat of a princely state of the same name, the capital of the kingdom known as Marwar...

, Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

, India

India

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An actor per excellence, Kanu Banerjee was known be a favourite of none other than Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...

, who was believed to be very fond of Mr.Banerjee's different nuances of sad emotions and pains.

Filmography

• Durgesh Nandini (1927)
• Rajgee (1937)
• Desher Mati (1938)
• Chanakya (1939)
• Shap Mukti (1940)
• Nandini (1941)
• Mayer Pran (1941)
• Epar Opar (1941)
• Pashan Devata (1942)
• Garmil (1942)
• Sahadharmini (1943)
• Jogajog (1943)
• Sahar Thekey Durey (1943)
• Pratikar (1944)
• Bideshini (1944)
• Nandita (1944)
• Mane Na Mane (1945)
• Kato Door (1945)
• Bhabhi Kaal (1945)
• Mandir (1946)
• Swapna-o-Sadhana (1947)
• Sadharan Meye (1948)
• Purabi (1948)
• Jayjatra (1948)
• Kuasha (1949)
• Abhijatya (1949)
• Digbhranta (1950)
• Mandanda (1950)
• Pandit Mashai (1951)
• Palli Samaj (1952)
• Bindur Chheley (1952)
• Natun Yahudi (1953)
• Sadanander Mela (1954)
• Mantra Shakti (1954)
• Dukhir Imaan (1954)
• Champadangar Bou (1954)
• Upahar (1955)
• Aparadhi (1955)
• Pather Panchali
  Pather Panchali
  Pather Panchali is a 1955 Bengali drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray and produced by the Government of the Indian state of West Bengal. Based on Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay's 1929 Bengali novel of the same name, the film was the directorial debut of Ray...
  
   (1955) — Harihar Ray
• Saheb Bibi Golam (1956)
• Nabajanma (1956)
• Daner Maryada (1956)
• Bhola Master (1956)
• Aparajito
  Aparajito
  Aparajito is a 1956 Bengali film directed by Satyajit Ray, and is the second part of The Apu Trilogy. It is adapted from the last one-fifth of Bibhutibhushan Bannerjee's novel Pather Panchali and the first one-third of its sequel Aparajito. It focuses on the life of Apu from childhood to college...
  
  (1956) — Harihar Ray
• Kathin Maya (1961)
• Banajyotsana (1969)
• Alo Amar Alo (1971)

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