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The result was no consensus. W.marsh 15:46, 1 February 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Anil Chowdhury[edit]

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Contested ((prod)) (reason on prod: "nn filmcrew member; fails WP:BIO and nearly non-notable enough for speedy deletion, but could be construed to assert a modicum of notability"). On the article's talk page, User:130.209.6.40 contends that this person is notable, but only provides this google search for the term "Anil Chowdhury, production controller". However, if one refines the search to ""Anil Chowdhury" production controller", the result is only 17 ghits. (A search for just ""Anil Chowdhury""[1] is not so overwhelming, either.) IMDB entries[2][3] for "Anil Chaudhary" and "Anil Chaudhury" reveals a paucity of credits for each result, and it's not even clear which one is these individuals is the "Anil Chaudhary" of the article, if either of them are at all. The "Anil Chaudhary" is said to be a production controller. I'm not even sure if there are many "notable" production controllers in this world, no matter how many movies this person worked on, and working as a filmcrew member on a notable director's films doesn't impart notability on the crewmember in and of itself. Agent 86 18:44, 25 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Delete, no real claim of notability. Many people work on films even in the nascent Indian film industry. This association in and of itself does not confer notability. --Dhartung | Talk 20:06, 25 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Keep Well, if we go by Google hits there is very minor reason to vote keep. However, like many other stuffs in India (or, for that matter, South Asia and many other countries where Internet penetration is not comparable with that in countries like USA, UK), we should consider this article from another point. Anil Chowdhury is considerably known in the Bengali film industry for his association with Satyajit Ray, a noted film director (and a featured article in Wikipedia). In fact, I rememeber I started this article while helping improve the article Satyajit Ray, and could not find many internet sources on the person. However, I have read some printed sources (mainly in Bengali language) where he has been mentioned, in most cases in relation to the films of Satyajit RayIt is Anil Choudhury's association with memorable cinemas like Pather Panchali, Aparajito etc that makes him notable. So IMO this article should not be deleted. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 06:25, 27 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Keep same reason as above. Pather Panchali brought deep changes in Indian cinema, and Anil Choudhury's contribution to it as well as his later collaboration with Satyajit Ray has entered Indian movie lore.--ppm 23:50, 27 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • The article is not about Pather Panchali or Satyajit Ray. The article is about a filmcrew member, and provides no information about what Choudhury might have done that was encyclopedic. Just because one works for a notable person does not make one notable. At most, a mention can be made in a article on Panchali or Ray that they hired Choudhury to work as one of the filmcrew, but I fail to see how even that much is encyclopedic. Agent 86 00:06, 28 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    • The article is low on info, I admit. But the sparsity of the article itself is not a measure of Choudhury's contribution. Nobody "hired" Choudhury. Choudhury unsuccessfully tried to find funding for Pather (as a friend) for a while before Ray told him that he'd venture out without funding and do it (the first person Ray shared this resolve with). As the "production manager" (aka the guy in charge in exchange of nothing), Choudhury personally and otherwise (for example getting Ray's wife to sell her ornaments without telling either Ray or his mother) managed to fund the film for a while before suggesting to a desperate Ray that he approach the chief minister of West Bengal, which finally how the film was completed.--ppm 05:39, 29 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Keep per dwaipayan and ppm.Bakaman 17:38, 28 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.