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Ranen Modak. Born :	 25th December 1945 ,Kolkata Died :	14th January 2007, Kolkata Ranen Modak was a Bengali Film maker & script writer & screen player. He started his film career as an Assistant Director with Sri Ritwik Ghatak. He was awarded best screen player award for film “Maa Bipattarini Chandi(1981)”. In the year 1988 he was awarded ‘DISHARI’ Puraskar as a best Lyric Writer for the Bengali Feature Film “SAHADHARMINI(1987)”. He was honoured by Govt. Of Bangladesh for his writing credit when he was went there with Sri Samaresh Basu for his famous novel ‘Chhutir Phande’. He worked as an associate director with Sahidul Haque Khan(Bangladesh) and many more. In 1999 “SIRAJ” Bengali feature film successfully released as a director screen player. In his early days in 1967 as one of the leader of All India Students Federation he went to jail for historic “Highcourt Ain Amanya” for the period of six months. He joined the newspaper Kalantar as a sub editor and wrote many novels, stories, plays, poems, songs etc.