He died on 17 November 1971 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

He worked first under the banner of British Dominion Films of Dhiren Ganguly and later with Pramathesh Barua's Barua Pictures and finally he joined New Theatres banner in 1932.

Debaki Bose was son of a successful advocate in Burdwan.

[3] Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's call for non-co-operation movement, he walked out of an examination and started living on his own.

[2] Dhiren Ganguly, better known as DG, an established film director from Calcutta, was visiting Burdwan at that time.