kolkata after 33 years aurora film corporationthe name behind pather panchali and jalsagharare making another foray into producing feature films the last feature film from the celebrated houseinto its centenary year was ardhendu mukherjees duranta joy released in 1973 we are looking for young directors we stopped making feature films for a variety of reasons in the 70s but now time has come for us to start all over again said anjan basu now running aurora film corporation and grandson of the founder anadi nath basu contemporaries like new theatres and barua studio have long ceased to exist basu said the political turmoil in bengal during the 70s and the subsequent lull in the industry had forced them to stay out it was dififcult to adjust then but we did survive all these years now we want to revive the studio culture which was the hallmark of bengali cinema in the 50s and 60s he said in these 33 years aurora film corporation has been involved in producing documentaries and short films in 1906 anadi nath basu set up aurora bioscope with two of his friends debi ghosh and charu ghosh the latter was a magician and debi ghosh the projectionist who later on became the cinematographer basus company toured zamindar households in preindependence bengal with its troupes showing filmsonereelers and tworeelers and magic shows in 1921 aurora film corporation produced its first full length feature film dasyu ratnakar which was released at rasa theatre now known as purno cinema dasyu ratnakar was shot at its studio in north kolkatas 1 raja rajballabh street which was devastated by a fire in 1946 destroying several prints four more silent films were made between 192130 in 1931 aurora moved to making newsreelsaurora samayiki the company was also associated with new theatres as its distributor satyajit ray made jalsaghar under the aurora banner then under ajit basu andpather panchali and parash pathar were distributed by them ritwik ghatak made documentaries for the company between 1951193 aurora produced 14 films the first bengali film to be shot in englandbhagini nibeditawas made by aurora in 1962 so was the first bengali film to be declared tax freeraja ram mohan the last film that the company distributed was utpalendu chakrabortys moyna tadanta in 1982 though busy with short films and documentaries the company has also invested rs three crore for its stateoftheart studio at salt lake the studio came up in 2003 till then aurora film studio was located at north kolkatas narkeldanga north road unless the infrastructure is developed the industry wont survive basu said