Birsa Dasgupta (born 2 November 1979) is an Indian Bengali film director based in Tollywood.He is well known for directing films such as Shudhu Tomari Jonyo,

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Early life

Born in Kolkata, his grandfather was noted documentary filmmaker

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, and grandmother was screenwriter Sonali (Senroy) Dasgupta, who later married Italian film director,

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. His father is film director Raja Dasgupta, while his mother is television presenter and actress Chaitali Dasgupta.

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is his only brother. He did his class 10 from South End School and class 12 from Delhi.

Personal life

Birsa married Bengali actress,

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. Meghla Dasgupta and Ida Dasgupta are his daughters.

Career

Intending to learn film making, Dasgupta left his graduation midway and moved to Mumbai. Here he started assisting in serials and films. Thereafter, he started making fillers and promos for the newly established audiovisual division of publishing house,

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. In 2003, he became a unit director in

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's film '' Black Friday'' (2004), though the film's release was stalled for further three years as it ran into troubles with Indian Censor Board. Nevertheless, the music video Dasgupta directed for the song ''Arey Ruk Ja Re Bandeh'' of the

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album, performed by band

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, got him noticed. Dasgupta returned to Kolkata in 2005, realising he would prefer making films in his native Bengali, thus made he went on make Bengali telefilms, ''Ekti Romharshak Dakatir Golpo '' and ''K'', both made in 2006 for Bengali music channel,

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. The film instantly got him acclaim, though a telefilm, ''Ekti Romharshak Dakatir Golpo '', even took part in the

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. Eventually, Dasgupta made his feature film debut with, '' 033'' in 2010. 033 is the

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for Kolkata city, and the film was incidentally based on the theme of increasing youth migration outside Kolkata for career opportunities.

Filmography

Films

Web series

Television series

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was a Bengali television drama series on June 27, 2016, on Star Jalsha . The series starred Prosenjit Chatterjee, Paoli Dam, Tanushree Chakraborty, Priyanka Sarkar, Manali Dey, Biswanath Basu and Biswajit Chakraborty in lead roles.

References

External links

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WebsiteBirsa Dasgupta Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dasgupta, Birsa 1975 births Living people Film directors from Kolkata Bengali film directors