Srijit Mukherji

Srijit Mukherji (born 23 September 1977) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who predominantly works in Bengali cinema.
His regular collaboration with veteran actor Prosenjit Chatterjee brought him into the limelight. His first feature film '' Autograph'' (2010), was a critical and commercial success, where he had written the script with Chatterjee in mind. His fifth film, ''Jaatishwar,'' won four national awards at India's 61st National Film Awards (2014). He won the National Film Award for Best Direction and Best Original Screenplay for his sixth film, ''Chotushkone,'' at India's 62nd National Film Awards. His eighth film, ''Rajkahini'' had been remade into a Hindi film titled, ''Begum Jaan'', starring Vidya Balan in 2017. His 2018 release Ek Je Chhilo Raja won the 'Best Bengali Film' Award at India's 66th National Film Awards. His 2019 film Gumnaami won him the Best Bengali Film and Best Adapted Screenplay Awards at the 67th National Film Awards.

Early life

Mukherji completed his schooling from Dolna Day School, Kolkata and South Point High School, Kolkata, before studying economics at Presidency College, Kolkata. He went on to complete his MA and MPhil in environmental economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, parallelly working as a social scientist in the Urban Transport and Pollution Sector with TERI in New Delhi. He quit his Ph.D. while in his first year, to join IRI Symphony, Bangalore as an econometrician and business analyst. After working in Bangalore and a brief stint in Milan, he quit his job to actively pursue theatre and films.

Career

Even while working as an economist and statistician, he was actively involved with the English professional theatre circuit in Delhi and Bangalore. He has acted in ''Madness'', adapted from Paulo Coelho's ''Veronica Decides To Die''; Manoj Mitra's ''The Orchard of Banchharam''; Badal Sircar's ''The Other Side of History''; Sunil Ganguly's ''Pratidwandi – The Adversary'', adapted for the stage from Satyajit Ray's film of the same name and ''Lucknow 76''. He wrote and directed ''Mindgame'', an Indian adaptation of Reginald Rose's '' Twelve Angry Men'', at the Alliance Francaise De Bangalore in 2006. In April 2008, he formed his own troupe, Pandora's Act, whose first production, ''Feluda Pherot!'' at Rangashankara in July 2008 was a runaway success and was the first ever non-canonical dramatisation of Satyajit Ray's sleuth Feluda. Barun Chanda, Ray's leading man in ''Seemabodhho'', and Parambrata Chatterjee, the screen Topshe and film youth icon, starred in this production. In 2009, he wrote, directed and acted in the English play ''Checkmate'', a non-canonical re-interpretation of Byomkesh Bakshi, Saradindu Bandopadhyay's sleuth. He was an assistant director, lyricist and actor in both Anjan Dutt's ''Madly Bangalee'' and Aparna Sen's ''Iti Mrinalini'', in 2009. He has also written lyrics for films like ''Cross Connection'', '' Le Chakka'' and ''Josh'', TV serials like ''Coffee and More'' and ''Dadagiri'' and non-film albums of Usha Uthup.

2010–2012

In 2010 Mukherji directed his debut feature film, the award-winning blockbuster – '' Autograph'' (starring Prosenjit Chatterjee, Indraneil Sengupta and Nandana Sen) which was both critically acclaimed and commercially successful. The film won 41 awards and was an official selection at Abu Dhabi International Film Festival 2010, MIAAC Film Festival in New York 2010, Glasgow International Film Festival 2011 and London Indian Film Festival

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