Modhu Bose (1900–1969), was an Indian film director, actor, singer and screenwriter during the thirties to sixties.
[3] Pramatha Nath Bose is credited with the setting up of the first soap factory in India He received his early education from Brahmacharya Balok Bidyaloy in Bolpur, Shantiniketan, after that some time in Darjeeling.
He diligently handled everything from production to marketing for the making of Prem Sanyas (1925), a film adapted from the book The Light of Asia (1879) in verse, by Edwin Arnold, based on the life of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, who founded Buddhism by becoming the Buddha or the "Enlightened one".
He went to London and assisted cameraman Baron Gaetano Ventigmilia on a Hitchcock film (probably The Mountain Eagle, 1926).
This way he became the first filmmaker from India to work closely with a director in a major Hollywood set-up.