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).