bimal mitra

Bimal Mitra (1912–1991) was a prominent Bengali writer who wrote several novels. Bimal Mitra was equally adept in writing in Bengali as well as in Hindi, and has more than one hundred novels and short stories to his credit. Many of Bimal Mitra's novels have been made into successful films. One of his most popular works, Shaheb Bibi Golam (January 1953) which was adapted into a hugely popular movie. He also earned a Filmfare nomination for Best Story for the film. He had served in railways in Bilaspur for long years. He was working in the Chakradharpur Division in the 1940s in the Control Organisation. One of his novelettes Char Chokher Khela is based on the lives of the Anglo-Indian population of Chakradharpur railway colony. He resigned from Indian Railway Services in 1950 at the age of 38 only to become a devoted full-time writer. Mitra died on December 2, 1991 at his residence in South Calcutta.