Pratim D. Gupta is an Indian journalist, film critic, screenwriter and film director. He reviewed films for ''

The Telegraph ''The Telegraph'', ''Daily Telegraph'', ''Sunday Telegraph'' and other variant names are popular names for newspapers. Newspapers with these titles include: Australia * ''The Telegraph'' (Adelaide), a newspaper in Adelaide, South Australia, publ ...

'' newspaper and later for online platform Film Companion. His first film as writer-director is ''

Paanch Adhyay ''Paanch Adhyay'' (lit. five chapters) is a 2012 Bengali romantic drama set in Kolkata. The film marks the Bengali language debut for Bollywood actress Dia Mirza. The film is written and directed by Pratim D. Gupta, the resident film critic of ' ...

'', starring Priyanshu Chatterjee and

Dia Mirza Dia Mirza Rekhi (born Dia Handrich; 9 December 1981) is an Indian model, actress, producer, and social worker who predominantly works in Hindi films. Mirza won the title of Miss Asia Pacific International in 2000 after being crowned Femina Mis ...

. His subsequent films ''

Shaheb Bibi Golaam ''Shaheb Bibi Golaam'' is an Indian Bengali thriller film directed by Pratim D. Gupta and stars Anjan Dutt, Swastika Mukherjee and Ritwick Chakraborty in the lead roles. The film depicts the story of a contract killer, a housewife and a taxi d ...

'' and ''

Maacher Jhol ''Maacher Jhol'' is an Indian language Bengali film produced by Sony Pictures Networks and Mojo Productions directed by Pratim D. Gupta, starring Ritwick Chakraborty, Paoli Dam and Mamata Shankar in the lead roles. It is the first Bengali food ...

'' have been big box office hits besides being critically acclaimed.

Early life

Pratim D. Gupta was born in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

in 1981 and studied in

South Point School South Point is a higher-secondary co-educational private school located in Kolkata, West Bengal and affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education, consisting of three organisations – South Point School (Nursery to Class V), South Poi ...

. He has a degree in Mass Communication and Film Studies from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata.

Career

While working as a journalist with ''The Telegraph'', Gupta's script ''Vanish'' was selected for the prestigious Binger Script Lab at the

Locarno International Film Festival The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, sh ...

in 2009. He got his first break with the romantic drama ''

'' which is also the first Bengali film for Bollywood actress Dia Mirza. Written and directed by Gupta, the film was shot almost entirely in Calcutta in November and December 2011. The film was selected as the Centrepiece Premiere at New York's South Asian International Film Festival (SAIFF) and picked as the New Voice in Indian Cinema at the Mumbai Film Festival (MAMI). In 2013, Gupta collaborated with 10 other filmmakers to be part of the collaborative project '' X: Past Is Present''. The film premiered in New York in 2014 and released in Indian theatres in November 2015. Gupta's second feature film was, '' Saheb Bibi Golaam''. released in 2016. It was the first mainstream Bangla film to be picked up by Netflix, going on to win 6 Filmfare Awards, including Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor & Best Screenplay for Pratim. In 2013, Pratim's screenplay Ink was selected for the prestigious Sundance Lab (India edition), where Pratim developed his script with Oscar winners like Asif Kapadia and Joshua Marston. Pratim later adapted the script into his 2019 Bengali film ''

Shantilal O Projapoti Rohoshyo ''Shantilal O Projapoti Rohoshyo'' () is an Indian Bengali mystery- thriller film, directed by Pratim D. Gupta. The film starred Ritwick Chakraborty, Paoli Dam and Goutam Ghose in lead roles. This was released on 16 August 2019 under the banner ...

''. ''

'' starring Ritwick Chakraborty as a Paris-based masterchef who returns to his roots in Kolkata was Pratim's third feature film. It was an official selection in the Indian Panorama section of the International Film Festival of India 2018 in Goa. It was later picked up by Netflix as well and this time won Pratim the Best Dialogue Filmfare Award. Early in 2018, Pratim wrote and directed the Hindi telefilm Mirchi Malini as part of Sujoy Ghosh's Teen Paheliyan series for Star Plus and Hotstar. '' Ahare Mon'', Pratim's fourth Bengali film starring Adil Hussain and

Paoli Dam Paoli Dam (born 1980) is an Indian actress who started her career with the Bengali television serial ''Jibon Niye Khela'' (2003). She then worked in Bengali television serials such as ''Tithir Atithi'' and ''Sonar Harin''; the former ran for ...

among others, has played at festivals in India and abroad and was picked as one of the best Indian films of the year by noted film critic Meenakshi Shedde in Sunday Mid Day. Pratim was featured in the Men of the Year list of 2018 by ''Man’s World'' magazine.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gupta, Pratim D. Bengali film directors Indian film critics Indian male screenwriters Film directors from Kolkata Indian male journalists Living people 1981 births University of Calcutta alumni Bengali people