Personal info
Known for
Director
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
1981-11-11
Location
West Bengal, India
Edit pagePratim D. Gupta
Biography
Pratim D. Gupta is an Indian journalist, film critic, screenwriter, and film director. He reviewed films for The Telegraph newspaper and later for the online platform Film Companion. His first film as writer-director is Paanch Adhyay, starring Priyanshu Chatterjee and Dia Mirza. His subsequent films Shaheb Bibi Golaam and Maacher Jhol have been big box office hits besides being critically acclaimed.
In 2013, Gupta collaborated with 10 other filmmakers to be part of the collaborative project X: Past Is Present. The film premiered in New York in 2014 and was released in Indian theatres in November 2015. Gupta's second feature film was, Shaheb Bibi Golaam. released in 2016. It was the first mainstream Bangla film to be picked up by Netflix, going on to win 6 Filmfare Awards, including Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor & Best Screenplay for Pratim.
In 2013, Pratim's screenplay Ink was selected for the prestigious Sundance Lab (India edition), where Pratim developed his script with Oscar winners like Asif Kapadia and Joshua Marston. Pratim later adapted the script into his 2019 Bengali film Shantilal O Projapoti Rohoshyo.
Early in 2018, Pratim wrote and directed the Hindi telefilm Mirchi Malini as part of Sujoy Ghosh's Teen Paheliyan series for Star Plus and Hotstar.
