Bijoy Chowdhury

Bijoy Chowdhury, also credited as C. Bijoy, was a film editor best known for his work in Hindi cinema. He grew up in Guwahati, studied editing at the Film Institute in Pune, completing the course in 1967, and then went to Bombay as an assistant to editors working with Shakti Samanta. Samanta later made him chief editor on Anurag, and he went on to edit popular films including Amane Samne and Barsaat Ki Ek Raat, winning the Filmfare Award for Best Editing in 1977 for Balika Badhu.

In Assamese cinema he co-directed Kanchghar (1975) with Piyush Kanti Roy, from a story by Nirod Choudhury, and also edited it. He edited several other Assamese films, among them Zuj (1990), Prem Jonome Jonome (1991), Abuj Bedona (1993), Ekotrish June (1994), Hridoyor Aare Aare (1994), Paani (1995) and Youvane Amoni Kore (1998).