Prosit Roy is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut in the supernatural horror film ''Pari'' (2018), starring

Anushka Sharma Anushka Sharma (; born 1 May 1988) is an Indian actress and former producer who works in Hindi films. She has received several awards, including a Filmfare Award. One of the highest-paid actresses in India as of 2018, she has appeared in '' F ...

, for her production company Clean Slate Films.

Early life

Roy was born and brought up 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 ...

, India. Roy belongs to a culturally rooted Bengali family. He hails from a family of performers starting with his grandfather, Pronab Roy, who was a writer and a lyricist. His father is a music professional, and his mother is a dance performer who has performed with

Uday Shankar Uday Shankar (8 December 1900 – 26 September 1977) was an Indian dancer and choreographer, best known for creating a fusion style of dance, adapting European theatrical techniques to Indian classical dance, imbued with elements of Indian cl ...

in the past. He completed his schooling from

Nava Nalanda High School Nava Nalanda High School is a co-educational institution in South Kolkata, India, affiliated to the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education for Madhyamik Pariksha (10th Board exams), and to the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education ...

in South Kolkata and earned a

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(B.com) from the prestigious South City College. He is a graduate of the

University of Calcutta The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate State university (India), state university in India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Considered ...

Career

Roy's interest for story telling in his formative years led him to explore the

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in Kolkata. Driven by his passion for feature films and the desire to reach a wider audience he moved to

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to work on professional film sets for training. Roy has worked with many directors in the past and production houses. He has worked as a director alongside Bollywood big names like

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just to name a few. Prosit Roy made his Bollywood debut with the 2008 film Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na as an

assistant director The role of an assistant director on a film includes tracking daily progress against the filming production schedule, arranging logistics, preparing daily call sheets, checking cast and crew, and maintaining order on the set. They also have to tak ...

. Roy directed a short film, Bloody Mustache in 2015. Made on a shoestring budget, Bloody Mustache won acclaim and accolades at various domestic and international film festivals including the

New York Indian Film Festival The New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) is an annual film festival that takes place in New York City, and screens films relating to India, the Indian Diaspora, and the work of Indian filmmakers. The festival began in November 2001 and was foun ...

. He then moved on to direct Pari - a horror film starring

, produced by her company

Clean Slate Filmz Clean Slate Filmz (Previously known as ''Clean Slate Films'') is an Indian film production and distribution company established by actress Anushka Sharma and her brother Karnesh Sharma in October 2013. Based in Mumbai, it mainly produces and ...

in 2018. The film won acclaim and was touted to be a trendsetter in the horror film genre of Bollywood. He also co-directed the

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crime thriller web series "

Paatal Lok ''Paatal Lok'' () is an Indian Hindi-language crime thriller web television series on Amazon Prime Video, created by Sudip Sharma, who wrote the script along with Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta and Gunjit Chopra, and directed by Avinash Arun and Pr ...

", which released on 15 May 2020 along with

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, created by Sudip Sharma and produced by

. The web series has been touted as "the best Indian web-series" and won rave reviews across the critics and audience. It won the

Filmfare OTT Awards The Filmfare OTT Awards are annual awards that honour artistic and technical excellence in the Hindi-language original programming over-the-top space. The first edition of the awards were held on 19 December 2020. It included films and web seri ...

for Best Series among other accolades.

Nominations and Awards

Prosit Roy has been nominated for the

Star Screen Awards The Screen Awards is an annual awards ceremony held in India honouring professional excellence in Bollywood. The nomination and award selection is done by a panel of distinguished professionals from the industry. The awards were introduced by t ...

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& by

Zee Cine Awards The Zee Cine Award (ZCA) is an Indian awards ceremony for the Hindi film industry. They were instituted in November 1997 to award "Excellence in cinema - the democratic way". They were first held in Mumbai until 2004, when the ZCA went internat ...

in 2019 as the Most Promising Debut Director & Best Debut Director for his movie Pari (2018). He won the

for Best Director for the series "

" in 2021.

Filmography

Series

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roy, Prosit Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Film directors from Kolkata 21st-century Indian film directors