Atanu Ghosh

Atanu Ghosh
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Born	(1969-08-12) August 12, 1969 Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Occupation(s)	Film director, Editor, screenwriter
Website	http://www.atanughosh.bravehost.com
Notes
Blog: www.atanugsh.wordpress.com

Atanu Ghosh (born Aug 12, 1969) is a critically acclaimed Bengali Indian short film director, writer and Film Editor.

Biography

Early life

After completing post-graduation in journalism, Atanu Ghosh started his career in 1996 as scriptwriter and director of documentary films, the first series being Pioneers of Indian Science for Doordarshan National Network. Thereafter, he branched out to fictional serials and telefilms.

Career

Atanu Ghosh received Doordarshan National Award for Best Children's telefilm Aar ek Bampi in 2002. Another telefilm, Akashchhoan was selected for the 10th International Kolkata Film Festival, 2004. Sumitra Online was selected for the Telesamman Award for the Best Telefilm of 2005 and Asamapto for Best Direction in 2006. Megh Brishti Rodh fetched him the coveted RAPA Award for Best screenplay.Till date, he has directed 23 telefilms. Atanu Ghosh has also worked as scriptwriter and editor for many eminent directors. Also, he has directed over 30 documentary and corporate films for many reputed organizations

Trivia

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Atanu Ghosh

Atanu Ghosh frequently works with Soumitro Chatterjee & Indrani Haldar. Both of them are all time greatest Bengali actors acknowledged by contemporaries. The success of Atanu Ghosh's films lies in the script as well, they are rather simple but carries messages. Story and script of all films he made are also by him. The characters in Atanu Ghosh's Telefilms are often very mature and his Telefilms has started a new age wave in Bengali Television Media. Though Atanu Ghosh has never made a full length feature film, he is very respected film-maker. Budgetary constraints doesn't allow to experiment much in Bengali movie Industry. Where as short films are experienting and discovering new genres of film making and are very popular among educated Bengali society.

Selected Filmography

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Poster of short film "Asomapto"

The following is the list of short films directed by Atanu Ghosh. For all but one of these short films, Atanu Ghosh is also credited for the story and screenplay:

Director

Year	Film	Language	Cast & Note
2003	Disha	Bengali	Locket Chatterjee, Pijush Ganguly, Bhaskar Banerjee & Kamalika Banerjee.
2003	Weekend	Bengali	Aparajita Auddy, Krishnakishore Mukherjee, Suchandra Chowdhury & Bhaswar Chatterjee.
2003	SHRISTICHARA	Bengali	Bhiswa Guha Thakurata, Sunil Mukherjee & Bhaskar Banerjee
2003	Amriter Putra	Bengalil	Locket Chatterjee, Kharaj Mukherjee, Suman Banerjee (Selected in 2nd Kolkata Telefilm Festival)
2003	Akashchhoya	Bengali	Gargi Roychowdhury, Pijush Ganguly, Kamalika Banerjee (Selected in 2nd Kolkata Telefilm Festival. Selected in 10th Kolkata International Film Festival, 2004).
2004	700 Square Ft	Bengali	Badsha Moitra, Rudranil Ghosh, Rituparna Sen (Selected in 2nd Kolkata Telefilm Festival. Nominated as Best Telefilm of the year in the Anandolok Puraskar,2004).
2004	Sumitra Online	Bengali	Mamatashankar, Biswajit Chakrabarty, Goutam De (Winner of Telesamman for Best Telefilm of 2004)
2004	Gabhir Asukh	Bengali	Krishnakishore Mukherjee, Aparajita Auddy, Bhiswa Guha Thakurata, Debesh Roychowdhury.
2004	Kanta	Bengali	Swastika Mukherjee, Kaushik Sen, Sudipta Chakrabarty (Nominated for Best Actress (Swastika Mukherjee) in the Indo-Bangladesh Kala Music Awards, 2005)
2005	Deadline	Bengali	Parambrato Chatterjee, Aparajita Ghosh Das, Suchandra Chowdhury & Biswajit Chakrabarty
2005	Megh Bristi Rodh	Bengali	Kaushik Sen, Swastika Mukherjee, Badsha Moitra, Rajat Ganguly (winner of RAPA Award for Best screenplay)
2005	Manthan	Bengali	Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Mallika Majumdar, Diganta, Indrani Bose, Bhaskar Banerjee
2005	Asomapto	Bengali	Soumitra Chatterjee, Indrani Halder, Koushik Sen, Bishwanath Bose .((Winner of Tellysamman for Best Direction 2006)
2005	MISHRARAAG	Bengali	Indrani Halder, Koushik Sen, Badsha Moitra, Aparajita Auddy, Bhaskar Banerjee and Supriya Devi
2006	AARO EK PRITHIBI	Bengali	Indrani Halder, Badsha Moitra, Rajatava Dutta, Kanchana Moitra
2006	AALOY PHERA	Bengali	Indrani Halder, Shiladitya Patranobish (Winner of Tellysamman for Best Actress - Indrani Halder - 2007; Nominated for Tellysamman for Best Telefilm of 2007)
2006	Ankush	Bengali	Soumitra Chatterjee, Indrani Halder, Badsha Moitra, Parambrato Chatterjee(Nominated for Best Telefilm in Anandalok Puraskar 2007)
2007	ROOPKATHA NOY	Bengali	Koushik Sen, Koninika Banerjee, Suchandra Chowdhury & Sourabh Das
2007	PARAMPARA	Bengali	Goutam De, Arunodoy, Priyanka
2007	PREMER GALPO	Bengali	Koushik Sen, Indrani Halder, Biswanath Bose

Others

Notable films/serials/documentaries:

Banglar Swadeshi Gaan - a 3 episode series on the patriotic songs of Bengal to commemorate 50 years of Indian independence

Ebong Computer - a 10 episode fictional series on computers

Aatanka - a 40 min fictional film on AIDS awareness

Chalti Hawa - a 10 episode musical series on Bengali Band music

Goenda Poribar - a 52 episode fiction series

Icchedana - a 26 episode science fiction series for children

Ardhek Prithibi - a 26 episode fiction series

Abaak Prithibi - a 26 episode fiction series

Story and Screenplay

Atanu Ghosh writes all the stories and screenplay of his short films as well. Megh Brishti Rodh fetched him the coveted RAPA Award for Best screenplay.

Memorable Quotes

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Atanu Ghosh directing Soumitra Chatterjee and Indrani Haldar in the set of "Asomapto".

On being asked by admirers why he isn't making full length feature film.. "I dont have any producer for making feature films. May be because I am unable to make the kind of movies that are being churned out now..."

About short length film(popularly known as Telefilms because they are mostly screened in television media only: "Telefilms proved to be eye openers in the cultural scenario of Bengal as they constitute what may be termed as the only sensible, intelligent and meaningful alternative to quality cinema on the video or digital format."

See also

• http://www.atanughosh.bravehost.com
• http://atanugsh.wordpress.com

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