Shiboprosad Mukherjee

Shiboprosad Mukherjee
Born	Shiboprosad Mukherjee 20 May Baranagar, India
Occupation	Film director, writer, actor
Years active	1997–present

Shiboprosad Mukherjee is an Indian Bengali Filmmaker, writer and actor. He, collaborating with Nandita Roy, debuted with their film Icche, which garnered both critical acclaim as well as commercial success. The director duo is known for making socially relevant films which are also entertaining to the viewers. They have directed some of the popularmost new age Bengali films likePraktan , Bela Seshe, Icche, Muktodhara, Accident, Alik Sukh and Ramdhanu which were critically acclaim as well as enjoyed commercial success. He also serves as a partner at Windows Productions.

Film Praktan , directed by Shiboprosad-Nandita duo was awarded for Highest Grossing Movie of the Year 2016, at the International Film Business Awards held at Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad on September 24. Praktan received this award along with some of the biggest names of the Indian Film fraternity such as Sultan (Highest Grosser- Hindi), Kabali (Highest Grosser - Tamil), Action Hero Biju (Highest Grosser - Malayalam) and Sairat (Highest Grosser - Marathi). It's not for nothing that Mukesh Bhatt bought the rights to the film for a remake, even before it was released!^[1]

Early life & Education

Shiboprosad Mukherjee was born on 20 May at Baranagar in the northern fringes Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He was a student of Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School and later completed his high school from Hindu School. He perused his graduation in Political Science Honours from Jadavpur University.

Film & Television career

Acting

He joined the theatre school as a trainer after completing his schooling. He participated in the T.I. E Project (Theatre in Education), while being under the guidance of eminent theatre personality Rudraprasad Sengupta and also attended the workshop conducted by Ibrahim Alkazi. He was also guided by Rituporno Ghosh when he was working as a freelance journalist in Anandalok (a film Magazine of Ananda Publishers), during his acting days . He debuted in acting in the year 1995 in Zee Bangla, with 'Ekushe Pa', directed by Raja Dasgupta. Later he went on to work in other daily television Serials like Janmabhoomi, Ghoom nei, etc.

Television

Although as a director and producer he has worked with all the leading channels in West Bengal and Bangladesh and has designed television programmes of duration not less than 10,000 hours, he has been a long term associate with ETV Bangla from its inception. From 1999 to 2002, he was a senior programming associate at ETV Bangla and currently, he is behind conceptualising, designing & producing 6 hours of original programming daily. With the credit of more than 50 non-fiction shows for Bengali television completely, designed by him, he has also conceptualised the first Bengali women's magazine programmes on television - 'Sreemoti'. He is also the first to launch Reality Show in Bengali television - Ritur Mela Jhoom Tara Ra Ra. He started his own production company named 'Windows Productions' along with his partner Nandita Roy and together they have produced many non-fiction and fiction programmes.

Filmography

Awards

• Anandalok Award 2012 – Best Film for film 'Muktodhara'^[2]
• Filmfare Award (East) 2014 – Best Direction for the film 'Alik Sukh'^[3]
• Zee Cine Award 2016 – Best film 'Belaseshe'^[4]

Achievements

• Icche did a theatrical run for 125 days. The National Film Archive of India accepted Icche as part of their collection for cultural and educational purposes. Icche was screened followed by an interactive session with the participants of the 8th batch of the 21-Day Certificate Course on Legal and Psychological Counseling for Women in Distress, University of Calcutta (29 January 2013). Icche has been included in the BEd curriculum of Visva-Bharati University. PVR Cinemas selected the film to be screened at Kolkata, Delhi & Mumbai as part of the Indian Panorama Film Festival.
• Hello Memsaheb, a comedy film, achieved commercial success.
• Accident was a thought-provoking and hard-hitting feature film. It was critically acclaimed. Accident was selected for the Indian Cinema Now Section of the 18th International Kerala Film Festival 2013. It ran in theatres successfully for 50 days.
• Muktodhara was the first Bengali film in a decade to be screened at the Rashtrapati Bhavan for the President of India, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee. He was all praise for the film. Muktodhara was also watched by the governor of West Bengal Sri. M.K Narayan. Muktodhara was accepted by Legal Aid Services of West Bengal as part of their curriculum for Post Graduate Studies in Counseling, 2013 (affiliated to University of Calcutta) and also has been included in the Certificate Course on Legal and Psychological Counseling for Women in Distress. It has been included in the BEd curriculum of Visva-Bharati University. It ran in theatres successfully for 75 days.
• Alik Sukh was premiered at the Marche du Film section in Cannes Film Festival in 2013. It had a pan India release in 2013. It was not only critically acclaimed but also did well commercially. It ran in theatres successfully for 50 days. The director duo received the Filmfare Award (East) 2014 for Best Direction for the film 'Alik Sukh'.
• Ramdhanu has achieved both commercial success and critical acclaim. It has been included in the BEd curriculum of Visva-Bharati University.
• Bela Seshe has received a tremendous response and Eros International will release the film in Mumbai, Delhi, Noida, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Pune and Bangalore and the film will also have an off-shore release in UK, US and Singapore on an unmentioned date.^[5]

External links

• Shiboprosad Mukherjee at the Internet Movie Database

References