He was born in 1924 in Sialkot, Punjab, British India and died on 27 June 1981 in Brookhaven, New York, United States.
[1] He also worked with renowned film directors like Jean Renoir, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Basu Chatterjee, Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, Tarun Majumdar and Aparna Sen. Bansi Chandragupta was born at Sialkot in Pakistan.
Here he met painter Shubho Tagore, on whose advice Chandragupta moved to Calcutta to pursue his ambition in painting.
[2] After a few stints in Bengali commercial films, Chandragupta got a chance to work as art director in Jean Renoir's movie The River (1951).
[2] During the shooting of this movie, he met Satyajit Ray who asked him to join a group of film enthusiasts that included Ray, RP Gupta, Sunil Janah, Chidananda Dasgupta, Harisadhan Dasgupta and others, to form the Calcutta Film Society.