Indrasis Acharya

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Indrasis Acharya
ইন্দ্রাশিস আচার্য
Born
Indrasis Acharya

Kolkata, West Bengal
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)Director, screenwriter
Notable work Bilu Rakkhosh , Pupa, The Parcel

Indrasis Acharya [1] is an Indian film director working in Bengali cinema. He came to the prominence after directing his first feature film, Bilu Rakkhosh which won acclaim in both national and international sphere. [2] Indrasis next worked in Pupa which got rave reviews and won many awards and accolades including All India Critic Choice Award for Best Bengali film of 2018 . It was in Hanoi international, [3] Kolkata international film festivals and many more. Pupa won multiple awards and accolades around the globe including, Best Director and Best film awards. His third film was The Parcel for which he won the Best Director award (Hiralal Sen Memorial) at the 25th Kolkata International Film Festival. [4]

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Early life

Indrasis Acharya [5] has done his B.Tech. in Instrumentation and electronics from Jadavpur University after getting an honours degree in physics from Calcutta university. [6] Currently, he is working in a renowned consulting MNC firm. [7] He has completed his latest Parcel [8] and working in a new feature Niharika (In The Mist) [9] [10]

Career

Acharya's first feature film is Bilu Rakkhosh. The film captures a journey in search of peace and roads to the roots amidst this rapidly changing socio-technical world of synthetic emotions. [11] [12]

Acharya made his second film Pupa. The film won multiple awards and accolades from international and national film arena. Pupa was selected as a sole entry from Bengal in competition for Kolkata International film festival. It was in competition in Hanoi international film festival, Kolkata International film festival, Singapore South Asian film festival and many more. It won 4 best film awards including Critic choice award as Best Bengali film of 2018, WBFJA and many more along with multiple best Director award. Pupa deals with father son relationship [13] The story is based on the conflict of a young mind to choose between a career in science or to be with ailing father where a man with wisdom (his uncle) comes to rescue him from dilemma. [14] [15]

The Parcel is third film by Indrasis Acharya. The film won Best Indian Director award from 25th Kolkata International film festival. The Parcel is a 2020 Indian Bengali, mystery cum psychological thriller film produced by Rituparna Sengupta and Krishna Kyal. [16] The film features Rituparna Sengupta, Saswata Chatterjee, Anindya Chatterjee and Ambarish Bhattacharya in lead roles and Sreela Majumdar and Pradip Mukherjee as supporting characters. [17] The story of the film revolves around a doctor-couple and Nandini, the protagonist, and mysterious parcels.

Filmography

Denotes films that have not yet been released
YearFilmWriterDirector
2017 Bilu Rakkhosh YesYes
2018PupaYesYes
2020 The Parcel YesYes
2021'Red Velvet' part of a Hindi Anthology Three Course Meal [18] YesYes
2023NiharikaYesYes

Short films

Acharya has made four short films till date namely UN-FAIR-Y, Oneker Moddhey Ekjon (One Amongst Many), Living beyond the Line, Ektu Antorikotar Jonno (For a Little Affection). [19]

Awards and recognition

Niharika (In the Mist)

• Official Selection - Adelaide Film Festival, 2022.

• Official Selection In Competition - 6th Hanoi International Film Festival, 2022.

• Official Selection in International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) - India Film Today

• Official Selection - Pune International Film Festival.

• Official Selection - Adelaide Film Festival, 2022.

• Best film ( critics) 2023 - Filmfare Awards

• Best Plyback 2023 - Filmfare Awards

The Parcel

Pupa:

Bilu Rakkhosh:

Upcoming project

He is working on his new film titled Niharika [10] with Shilajit Mazumdar, Mallika Mazumdar, Anuradha Mukhopadhay and Anindya Sengupta.

His first Hindi fiction Red Velvet as a part of a Hindi Anthology of three short stories is under Post Production now.

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