Partho Sen-Gupta (also spelled Partho Sen Gupta or Partho Sengupta pronounced ''Partho Shen-Goopto'') is an independent

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and

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. He is a French citizen, of Indian origin. He has a post-graduate in Film Direction from FEMIS.

Biography

Sen-Gupta was born in

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(Bombay), on 2 September 1965. He has been working in

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since the age of seventeen, starting his career as an apprentice in the art department, in the studios of "

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" in

. He worked with an Indian art director

Bijon Dasgupta Bijon Dasgupta ( Bengali: বিজন দাশগুপ্ত) born April 30, 1951 is an Art Director of Indian Film Industry. Life and career Dasgupta made his debut as an art director with Shekhar Kapur's Masoom and the first film itself ga ...

on the sets of big budget commercial Hindi films like '' Saagar'' and '' Mr. India'' among others. After having spent a few years and finishing his apprenticeship, he became assistant art director. In 1988, he worked on his first film as

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in an Indian art movie called ''Main Zinda Hoon'' (''I am Alive'') directed by

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. He then set up his design studio working on numerous advertising films and art movies, designing sets and specializing in real-time SFX. He won the Best Art Director Award in 1989. He also worked as production designer on the French film '' Nocturne Indien'' directed by

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and shot in Mumbai. In 1993, he was selected to do a two-month summer workshop at FEMIS, the French film institute in Paris. During the workshop, he directed his first short film "La Derniere..." based on

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's radio play ''

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''. He was then awarded a three and a half year full scholarship to study film direction at the same school. During his film school years, he made four short fiction films ''Le Cochon'', ''La Partition'', ''Trajet Discontinu'', and ''La Petite Souris'' which took him to different European film festivals and won awards. After graduation in 1997, he directed his first feature film ''

Hava Aney Dey ''Hava Aney Dey'' ('' en, Let the Wind Blow'') is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language drama film written and directed by Partho Sen-Gupta. It stars Aniket Vishwasrao, Nishikant Kamat, Tannishtha Chatterjee and Rajshree Thakur in the lead roles. The fil ...

'' (''Let the Wind Blow'') which premiered at the

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in 2004. It was selected in many international film festivals and won awards. The film was part of the Global Lens 2008 series of the

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. and premiered at the

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NYC, in January 2008. In 2005, he made a documentary film ''The Way of Beauty'' on the Indo-fusion group

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which was released on the DVD in May 2006. In 2008, his new feature film project ''

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'', was selected among 30 other international projects at the 11th Pusan promotion Plan (3 to 6 October 2008) at the

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. ''Sunrise'' was the only Indian project in the selection. ''

'' was completed and released in October 2014 and premiered at the 2014

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and numerous international film festivals, received awards and international critical acclaim. In 2017, Sen-Gupta wrote and directed his first Australian feature film ''

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''. It was an official selected project at the 2016

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's CineMart and the 2016

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Co-oproduction Market. The film starring

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, from the Academy Awards nominated film ''

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'' and award winning Australian actress

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, was filmed in October and November 2017 in

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. ''

'' is selected in the Official Selection Competition at the 2018

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and had its world premiere on 27 November 2018.

Filmography

Writer/Director

- 2018/Fiction/115 min/English *

- 2014/Fiction/85 min/Marathi *The Way of Beauty - 2006/Documentary/180 min/English *

(''Let the Wind Blow'') - 2004/Fiction/93 min/Hindi *Trajet Discontinu - 1998/Fiction/26 min/French *Le Cochon - 1996/Fiction/12min/French

Production Designer/Art Director

* Nocturne Indien - 1989/Fiction/110 min/French *

Raakh ''Raakh'' () is a 1989 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Aditya Bhattacharya, starring Aamir Khan and Supriya Pathak in the lead roles with Pankaj Kapur, Gajanan Bangera and Jagdeep. The film was Aamir Khan's first movie after ''Qay ...

- 1989/Fiction/153 min/Hindi *

Main Zinda Hoon ''Main Zinda Hoon'' () is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language drama film written and directed by Sudhir Mishra, starring Rajendra Gupta, Pankaj Kapur, Deepti Naval and Alok Nath. At the 36th National Film Awards, the film won the National Film Award ...

- 1988/Fiction/120 min/Hindi

References

External links

Arunoday - Sunrise - A film by Partho Sen-Gupta
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Official Website2004 interview in Nantes, Festival de 3 continents
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sen-Gupta, Partho 1965 births Living people Film directors from Mumbai Hindi-language film directors Bengali male artists Indian production designers 20th-century Indian designers