Aditya Vikram Sengupta
Directing
Biography
Aditya Vikram Sengupta was born in 1983 in Calcutta, India. At a very young age his interests meandered towards performing arts. He started training in western classical music and was an active dramatist throughout his childhood. Later, he trained himself in animation and film. Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s debut film Labour of Love created a tremendous buzz in the international film festival circuit. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2014, Giornate Degli Autori, where it won the FEDEORA for best Debut Film. Labour Of Love has since featured at over 70 international film festivals including Rotterdam, Busan, London, Tallinn, Munich, Marrakech, Shanghai, Abu Dhabi and IFFLA and has won 13 awards internationally. The film was also feted with 2 awards at the 62nd National Film Awards including the prestigious Golden Lotus for Best Debut Film. Aditya’s second feature Jonaki was officially selected to have its World Premier in the Bright Future section of the prestigious International Film Festival of Rotterdam 2018, where it began its festival journey.
Known For
The film follows the beginnings of a relationship between Preeti and Samrat, an aspirational couple in their mid-twenties who have just moved to the megalopolis of Mumbai. As they share their love story via reels on social media, where the immediate validation and promises of quick money initially seduces, and then propels them into the world of influencers.
Early Days
In Puratawn, Ritika and Rajeev visit her ancestral house in Konnagar (in West Bengal’s Hooghly district) to attend her mother's 80th birthday celebration, only to discover her mother's deteriorating mental state, forcing Ritika to confront this difficult reality and its permanence.
Puratawn
While Jonaki, an 80-year-old woman, searches for love in a strange world of decaying memories, her lover, now old and grey, returns to a world she is leaving behind.
Jonaki
Just when the people of an expanding Calcutta feel their dreams might be fulfilled, they hear the sound of things falling.
Once Upon a Time in Calcutta
Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession.
Labour of Love
Convinced only a miracle can save them from failing school exams, a trio of friends seek help from a magician. To their surprise, he gamely complies.
Dhh
Based on the real life story of Abhinav Bindra, an Indian businessman and retired professional shooter who is a former World and Olympic champion in the 10 metre Air Rifle event.
Untitled Abhinav Bindra Biopic
Mrinalini Mitra, a popular actor now past her prime, gets caught in a political duel after the accidental death of a teen in a village she is visiting to the campaign for a party she has recently joined.
Representatives
Vidya, a single mother and staunch idealist, moves into Mahalaxmi Apartment as a tenant, a housing society with hidden cracks. One night, she encounters a terrifying elevator malfunction and reports it to Sharma, the egoistical building president, who refuses to believe anything could be wrong—especially based on the word of an “outsider." Alarmed by his ignorance, Vidya warns the residents of impending danger, but their blind faith in Sharma silences her. Determined to expose the truth, she uncovers the shocking corruption within the system, and when she tries to speak, she gets branded an enemy of society.
Republic of Mahalaxmi Apartment
Next feature from Aditya Vikram Sengupta which explores the present-day Hindu-Muslim tension in India.
Birthmark
A widowed chauffeur falls under suspicion when diamond earrings vanish at his employer’s event.