- Father of actress Archana.
- His film "Raj Kamal" was left incomplete in 1957, as was his last film "Anamika" when he died in 1967.
- He earned a degree in literature from Calcutta University.
- He moved to Mumbai in 1951 where he directed several Hindi films for Filmistan and for Bimal Roy.
- His film "Insaaf Kahan Hai" (1959) was never released.
- Private secretary of Subhashchandra Bose, who was a significant figure of the Indian Independence Movement.
- Fulltime radical activist in 1930-1932 Civil Disobedience Movement for which he was arrested and jailed from 1932-1938. This period of his life later inspired his two best-known films: Bhuli Nai (1948) and '42 (1951).
- His daughter debuted as Archana in Buddha Mil Gaya.
- He and his singer wife Ratna Gupta had four children: Rubu (who died in a freak accident as a child), Jayanta, Jaijeet, and Jayshree (better known by her screen name Archana).
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