Pratim D. Gupta
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Biography
Pratim D. Gupta is an Indian journalist, film critic, screenwriter and film director. He reviewed films for The Telegraph Kolkata and later for online platform Film Companion. His first film as writer-director is Paanch Adhyay, starring Priyanshu Chatterjee and Dia Mirza. Written and directed by Gupta, the film was shot almost entirely in Calcutta in November and December 2011. The film was selected as the Centrepiece Premiere at New York's South Asian International Film Festival (SAIFF) and picked as the New Voice in Indian Cinema at the Mumbai Film Festival. His subsequent films Shaheb Bibi Golaam and Maacher Jhol have been big box office hits besides being critically acclaimed. Gupta was born in Kolkata in 1981 and studied in South Point School. He has a degree in Mass Communication and Film Studies from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata. While working as a journalist with The Telegraph Kolkata, Gupta's script Vanish was selected for the prestigious Binger Script Lab at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2009. He got his first break with the first Bengali film for Bollywood actress Dia Mirza.
Known For
A rebellious vampire with a broken tooth falls for a shy dentist on the streets of Kolkata but will human and mystical forces keep them apart?
Tooth Pari: When Love Bites
In the bustling, nostalgic lanes of North Kolkata, Sumit Dasgupta, a 40-year-old software engineer, lives a routine-driven life with his teenage daughter, Mohor. Ever since his wife, Supriya, passed away unexpectedly a year ago, Sumit has been struggling to balance his demanding job and single parenthood.
Ranna Baati
Two wives bond over recipes and revenge at a Kolkata cooking class. Shahana and Jhinuk joke about killing each other's husbands, until Jhinuk's husband actually dies. Shahana says she's done her part. Now Jhinuk must do hers. But Inspector Bhupen Bhaduri smells foul play. Murder or karma?
Karma Korma
A thriller about a food taster, who can know everything about you by tasting the food you have made...even your darkest secrets.
Mirchi Malini
When a middle-aged filmmaker meets an alluring stranger at a party, he's haunted by troubling memories of his past relationships.
X: Past Is Present
A heartwarming collage of inter-connected love stories, Ahare Mon is a romantic drama that revolves around people who are otherwise forbidden to fall in love.
Ahare Mon
Whenever love leaves, it leaves traces. Those traces cling on to old times and familiar spaces.
Paanch Adhyay
Three generations of a family live together but they are very different from each other. The three young sons learn various lessons from life and end up as better human beings.
Fish, Sweets & More
Two people whose love is a force that can never be changed, no matter how much its surroundings may change. A unique take on the timelessness of romance.
Love Aaj Kal Porshu
A deadbeat weather reporter at an English newspaper in Kolkata evolves into a detective when he pursues a deeply buried story about an adult movie star.
Shantilal O Projapoti Rohoshyo
The thriller delves into the lives of four cops from Kolkata Police, as they go about investigating a series of murders rocking the city. As the plot thickens, the personal lives of the men get stressed and squeezed by the ongoing turmoil.
Chaalchitro
Three very different people from three very different worlds collide one winter afternoon in an anarchic Kolkata.
Shaheb Bibi Golaam
A world-renowned chef returns to his roots through a bowl of fish curry, the quintessential Bengali delicacy.
Maacher Jhol
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