Birsa Dasgupta (born 2 November 1979) is an Indian Bengali film director based in
Tollywood
Tollywood may refer to:
* Tollywood (Bengali cinema), the Bengali-language film industry based in West Bengal.
** Tollygunge
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.He is well known for directing films such as
Shudhu Tomari Jonyo,
Gangster
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,
Psycho (2021 film)
Early life
Born in Kolkata, his grandfather was noted documentary filmmaker
Harisadhan Dasgupta, and grandmother was screenwriter Sonali (Senroy) Dasgupta, who later married Italian film director,
Roberto Rossellini
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. His father is film director Raja Dasgupta,
while his mother is television presenter and actress Chaitali Dasgupta.
Ribhu Dasgupta
Ribhu Dasgupta is an Indian film and television director. He made his directorial debut with 2011 film '' Michael''.
He was nominated at the Shanghai International Film Festival for Asian New Talent Award of Best Film for the film '' Michael' ...
is his only brother. He did his class 10 from South End School and class 12 from Delhi.
Personal life
Birsa married Bengali actress,
Bidipta Chakraborty. 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,
MiD DAY. In 2003, he became a
unit director in
Anurag Kashyap
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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
film soundtrack
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album, performed by band
Indian Ocean
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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, Tara Muzik. The film instantly got him acclaim, though a telefilm, ''Ekti Romharshak Dakatir Golpo '', even took part in the Thrissur International Film Festival.][
Eventually, Dasgupta made his feature film debut with, '']033
''033'' or ''Zero Three Three'' is a 2010 Bengali film directed by Birsa Dasgupta in a directorial debut and produced by Moxie Entertainments. It stars Rudranil Ghosh and Parambrato Chattopadhyay.
033 is the STD code for Kolkata city, and the ...
'' in 2010. 033 is the STD code 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
Mahanayak (TV series) 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