Theatre lover Tapan Sahaa wrote and directed
more than 25 full length plays, then young Tapan
forayed into movie making by assisting the
legendary and world famous Indian film Director
Ritwik Ghatak in his last two films("A River called
Titas", "Arguments, Debate and a Story"). After
Ghatak's untimely death which happened in
Tapan's presence ,shattered him because he was
very closely witnessed with his maestro's suffering
and financial hardships due to making his own kind
of cinema. Even Ghatak has no good place for
shelter in his last life, so Tapan brought him to his
own's house.
Tapan was on crossroads. what to do! his young
mind led him to venture into making of spicy films.
His debut movie "Uplabdhi"(The Realisation) was
critically acclaimed by the Bengal Films
Journalist Association (BFJA,) & achieved others
few awards from "Bengali Film Industries" and his
journey of cinema was on and which in a span of
years, he made more than 14 moives &
established himself as a veteran Writer ,Producer
and Director of Bengali Cinema. Also Some
famous directors directed moives under Tapan's
film Productions House ,kolkata.
Tapan tried to spread his wings, he contacted
and sent one of his Script titled "Lost Love" to
Michael Philips ,
a four time oscar winning
producer and the chairman of "Light House
Productions" (Hollywood) whom Tapan regards
as his Godfather in Hollywood.) . He was
mesmerised by reading it and invited him to
meet him .Tapan was glad and landed Los
Angeles. Philips played a major role to set up
Tapan's Production House (Sampoorna
Entertainment World LLC) at Columbia Studio
which was previously owned by Sir Charlie
Chaplin .During his tenure Tapan made friends
like Ashok Amritraj CEO and Chairman of "Hide
Park Entertainment "(Hollywood). He was
fortunate to become friendly with doyen of
Hollywood Steven Spielberg. Both are still
friends and share their thoughts regularly over
chats and calls. Tapan signed actor Billy Zane
(Titanic, Phantom fame ) as a Director for the
other Producer.
Though Tapan has credit of writing & directing
several movies,he also introduced Mithun
Chakraborty, Amzad Khan, Shatrughan Sinha,
