Bipin gupta
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Bipin Gupta was an actor and artist of during 1930s and 1960s. He acted in several bengali
Bengali language
Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...

 and hindi movies.

Early life

He was born on 21st August, 1905 in Meerut 5th child of his parents, Trailokya Nath Gupta and Khemankari Devi. Later they shifted to Barrackpore
Barrackpore
Barrackpore or Barrackpur is headquarters of Barrackpore subdivision in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The town was a military and administrative center under British rule, and was the scene of several acts of rebellion against Britain during the 19th century...

. He did his schooling from Chinsura Training Schooland Barrackpore Govt. High School. Before completing formal education he left his home with only four hundred rupees to try his luck. He was married to Annapurna Devi.

Career

He used to work as a cloth supplier in a company. In the Hindi film Noori, he was doing the role of a cloth supplier and went to Agra
Agra
Agra a.k.a. Akbarabad is a city on the banks of the river Yamuna in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, west of state capital, Lucknow and south from national capital New Delhi. With a population of 1,686,976 , it is one of the most populous cities in Uttar Pradesh and the 19th most...

 for shooting. As the lead actor of the film didn’t turn up, the producer of the movie literally forced Bipin to do the film impressed by his looks and voice quality. His first Bengali film was Chokher Bali directed by Sotu Sen in 1938. Although he had worked in almost 300 films, but he had never acted as a hero in any other films other than Noori. Gora (1938), Sandhi (1944), Lukochuri (1958), Mother (1979) are some of his films. In 1964, he has produced and directed one Hindi movie
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 which never got released. He started working in Radio in 1934 and in 1936, he became a professional stage artist. He stayed for long 30 years in Bombay to establish himself in Bollywood. He died on 9th September, 1981 at Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

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