Birendranath Sircar (also Sarkar; 5 July 1901 – 28 November 1980) was an Indian film producer and the founder of New Theatres Calcutta.
He was the grandson of Nagendra Nath Sircar, and great-grandson of Peary Charan Sarkar, the principal of Hare School, Calcutta.
After completing his study at Hindu School, Kolkata, he studied Engineering at the University of London[2] and on returning to India he was asked to build a cinema.
Called Chitra, this was opened in Calcutta by Subhas Chandra Bose on 30 December 1930 and was followed by the construction of New Cinema, which showed Hindi films.
He was the President of the BMPA in the late 1940s[1][4] Sircar's films include:[5][6]