Aditya Vikram Sengupta (born 6 September 1983) is an Indian film director, cinematographer and graphic designer. His first film '' Asha Jaoar Majhe'' or ''Labour of Love'', released in 2014 which premiered at the 11th Venice Days section of the Venice International Film Festival,OFFICIAL Website of Venice Days festival http://www.venice-days.com/2014/index.asp?lang=eng which won him the National Award for Best Debut in India.

Early life

Aditya Vikram Sengupta was born in

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in 1983 to Sharmila Sengupta and Tridib Kumar Sengupta. He attended St. Xavier's Collegiate School and post-school, Aditya was accepted at the prestigious

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in Paldi, Ahmedabad. After NID, he worked at Channel for a number of years as a promo and creative director before turning director full-time.

Career

His first directorial venture was the Bengali film '' Asha Jaoar Majhe'' (English: Labour of Love) premiered at the 11th Venice Days at the

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on 4 September 2014, At the 62nd

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, it won the Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director and Best

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. Aditya's second film '' Jonaki'' was an international co-production between India-France and Singapore. Catherine Dussart Productions of France and Samir Sarkar's Magic Hour Films were co-producers of ''Jonaki''. Shortly after the festival run of ''Jonaki'', it was available for streaming on Netflix. ''

Once Upon a Time in Calcutta ''Once Upon A Time In Calcutta'' is a 2021 Bengali language Indian-French-Norwegian film directed by Aditya Vikram Sengupta. It is the third film by the Indian director and produced by Wishberry Films, in association with For Films, with Cathe ...

'' (previously titled ''Memories and My Mother'') is Aditya's third film and his first collaboration with Turkish director of photography, Gokhan Tiryaki. Filmed in 2019, ''Once Upon A Time in Calcutta'' has been selected for 78th

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2021 in the Orizzonti Competition. The film had its North American premiere at the New Directors New Films

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in 2022 before screening and winning awards at other festivals in the US. According to ''

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,'' Aditya's follow up film, ''Birthmark,'' a five country co-production between India, France, Norway, Luxembourg and Denmark, which was initially part of HAF Hong Kong Film Financing Forum, the Venice Gap Financing Market at the Venice Production Bridge and received production support from Luxembourg Film Fund and the

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was shelved because of reasons not disclosed by the production. Aditya is developing three projects under his home production banner, For Films. First is ''Death of an Elephant'' based on a Bengali author

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's short story. The other two projects are ''Mandrake,'' a film on magic in Kolkata and an untitled documentary on

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looked through a socio-cultural lens. Aditya is married to Jonaki Bhattacharya, who also works with him as an Art Director on all of his projects.

Filmography

Awards and festival selections

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sengupta, Aditya Vikram 1983 births Living people Bengali film cinematographers Cinematographers from West Bengal Bengali film directors Film directors from Kolkata Director whose film won the Best Debut Feature Film National Film Award