DIRECTOR's PROFILE

About myself:
From a very young age I have found cinema extremely intriguing. I started watching films with a keen eye and had the privilege of attending different film festivals in India, which gave me a wide exposure to International Cinema. Along with films I was simultaneously involved with amateur theatre. Apart from acting in the latter, I was actively involved in scripting and production designing for Theatre Arts’ Workshop – an amateur theatre group dealing with the adaptation of Shakespeare’s plays.

Acting in an Indo German production titled “Plebians Rehearse for Uprising”, directed by Gunter Grass and Amitav Ray followed this. I then actively took part in Acting Workshops conducted by Richard Schekner and Lisa Refkin. Then from theatre I slowly moved on to my real passion, films. I am making my debut in feature films with “Anuranan” – A Resonance, a film in Bengali.

1987 – 1992:

Began with directing and designing television software. Directed tele - serials, docu - features, short films and tele - films for Indian National and Regional Television Network (Doordarshan) in Bengali and English and documentaries for the BBC.

1993 - 2005:

Subsequently I went on to producing and directing advertising films as well as presentation films, for multinational Corporate houses and leading consumer brands in India & Asia Pacific region like Philips Asia Pacific, Hero Honda, Britannia Industries, Reckitt Benckiser, Nestle Asia Pacific, Coke Asia Pacific, Lafarge India, Berger India, Exide Industries, Smithkline Beecham, Ananda Bazar Group of Publications, Eveready Industries, TATA Steel, ITC, Paharpur Cooling Towers and Apollo Group of Hospitals among others.

2005 - 2006:

Made my debut in feature films with “Anuranan – A Resonance” in Bengali, which is directed and co – produced by me.