Lagging behind in many areas of endeavour, the post-Independence Bengali attempted to make up for it in the field of cinema. A succession of outstanding filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen and Tapan Sinha injected a fresh creative dimension to Bengali daily life. Even when the early masters were still active, Bengali cinema saw the emergence of a new crop of promising directors like Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Goutam Ghose, Utpalendu Chakrabarty, Biplab Roychowdhury and Aparna Sen, coinciding with the arrival and brutal suppression of the Naxal movement.
Source: Flop show – The Week