Bedabrata Pain

Bedabrata Pain (Bengali: বেদব্রত পাইন; born 27 March 1963) is an Indian scientist turned film director,[2][3] producer and screenwriter.[4] Bedabrata Pain was also a member of the team that invented the CMOS image sensor.[5] Bedabrata Pain has also won National Film Award for Best Debut Film of a Director for Chittagong.[6][7]

Bedabrata Pain
Bedabrata Pain, IFFI 2012
Born (1963-03-27) 27 March 1963
West Bengal, India
Other namesBedo, Mithu
Alma materSt. Lawrence High School, Kolkata
IIT Kharagpur
Columbia University
OccupationScientist
director
producer
screenwriter
Years active2005—present
Spouse(s)Shonali Bose[1]

Biography

Early life and education

Bedabrata's father was born in Dhaka and his mother came from Faridpur. Bedabrata Pain did his schooling in St. Lawrence High School in Calcutta & South Point High School and ranked 3rd in Madhyamik Exam (West Bengal State Board - 10th Standard Exam) and 5th in Higher Secondary Exam (West Bengal State Board - 12th Standard Exam). He then studied Electronics & Electrical Comm. Engg. (ECE) in IIT Kharagpur (1982–1986),[8][9][10] He got an Ivy League scholarship.[11] Later he went to Columbia University, New York and received his M.S and PhD in Applied physics in 1992. His future wife Shonali Bose also did her master's degree in Political Science from Columbia University.

Academic career

In 1993, Bedabrata Pain joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and later managed JPL's image sensor and focal-plane technology research and advanced development. Since 1993, he was associated with NASA. Concurrent with his NASA work, he taught courses on CMOS imaging at UCLA, chaired international conferences, and was the invited speaker at several conferences. He has published over 150 technical papers, and won several awards, including the Lew-Allen Award for Excellence.[12]

Invention

In 1990s, Bedabrata Pain was part of a team that invented the active pixel sensor technology that produced the world's smallest camera and has been inducted to the US Space Technology Hall of Fame.[13][14][15] Now it is used from cell-phone cameras to movie cameras (such as those used by RED) to those in space telescopes.[16][17]

Achievements and awards

Bedabrata Pain had worked for NASA for 15 years as senior research scientist before quitting NASA in December 2008.[18][19][20] Pain has 87 invention patents to his credit.[21][22]

Personal life

Bedabrata Pain was married to Shonali Bose.[23] Now he is based in Los Angeles.[24] Bedabrata and Shonali had two sons - Ishan and Vivan. They lost their son Ishan, who died at a young age in an accident on 3 September 2010.[25][26][27][28][29][30]

Film career

Bedabrata was the executive producer of the award-winning film Amu in 2005.[31] He was the principal researcher for the documentary called Lifting the Veil on the impact of globalisation in India, and the writer of the book titled ‘Behind the events in Kashmir’. He directed critically acclaimed film Chittagong starring Manoj Bajpai,[32] Vega Tamotia,[33] Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Barry John and Dibyendu Bhattacharya.[34] Bedabrata, shot the film Chittagong with the same digital imaging technology that he with other NASA scientists had invented.[35]

Filmography
YearFilmLanguageNotes
2005AmuHindiProducer
2012ChittagongHindiProducer, director, writer, Won National Film Award for Best Debut Film of a Director[36]

See also

References
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  28. Chittagong to release
  29. "NRIs lose case against US firm on son's death – India Global News – IBNLive". Ibnlive.in.com. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  30. Subhash K Jha (11 September 2012). "'Chittagong' director loses son's death case in LA court". The Times of India. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  31. "Amu (2005)". Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  32. "Review: Aarakshan is disappointing". Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  33. Chris Pizzello (11 April 2012). "Vega Tamotia, left, a cast member in "Chittagong," and the film's director Bedabrata Pain pose together on the opening night of the 10th Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles". Outlook. Archived from the original on 30 January 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
  34. "Bedabrata Pain's Chittagong gets a new poster". 4 April 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
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  36. "60th National Film Awards Announced" (PDF) (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
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