Suman Mukhopadhyay
Biography
Suman Mukhopadhyay is an Indian film director. His first cinematic directorial debut film was Herbert which was released in 2005. Herbert won the National Award for Best Bengali film. He is in the post-production of his latest Hindi feature film "Nazarband". His last film is "Asamapta"(Incomplete), premiered in IFFLA, USA and is on Netflix. Before that "Shesher Kabita" (The Last Poem) with Rahul Bose and Konkona Sen Sharma premiered in Dubai International Film Festival and released on 7 August 2015. "Kangal Malsat"(The War Cry of the Beggars) his 4th feature film released on August 2013. Mahanagar@Kolkata was completed in 2009. The film was screened in Munich, Kerala and New York film festivals. His second film Chaturanga, based on Tagore's novel, was completed in 2008 and premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival. Chaturanga was screened in 36 national and international festivals. The film received a Gran Prix award at Bridgefest, Sarajevo; the Best Director award at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival and the Golden Palm at Mexico International Film Festival.[citation needed] Recently Mukhopadhyay has done a Zee5 original feature film Posham Pa and directed five episodes of Parchhayee based on Ruskin Bond stories.[1] Mukhopadhyay has done theatre productions ranging from European drama to major adaptations of Bengali works. He used to be a part of Bengali theatre Group Chetana. Among his many works some are Raja Lear, Sunyo Sudhu Sunyo Noy, Bisarjan, Teesta Paarer Brittanto and Samay Asamayer Brittanto, adapted from the novels by Debesh Roy and Mephisto, based on Klaus Mann's German novel. He has also staged Rabindranath Tagore's Raktakarabi; Falguni-Prelude, Shakespeare/Brecht's Coriolanus and Śūdraka's The Little Clay Cart. He directed The Man of the Heart (Life and times of Lalon Fokir) at the University of California, Berkeley and Girish Karnad's Nagamandala at the Department of Theatre, Kalamazoo College, Michigan. Man of the Heart was also invited to Barbican Centre, London.
Known For & Full Filmography8 Titles
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Whenever love leaves, it leaves traces. Those traces cling on to old times and familiar spaces.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • as Advocate
Post his parents' divorce, Soumyo lives with his father in San Francisco but returns to Kolkata after his mother dies. There, he learns a lot about his mother through her diary and all her belongings.
Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
This documentary celebrates legendary Bengali singer-songwriter Kabir Suman and his enduring muse, Kolkata. While showcasing a formidable body of Suman's timeless songs, which also construct the narrative of his life, the film demonstrates why he might just be world's greatest unsung singer-songwriter and how easily genius too can slip through the cracks of history.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Himself
A documentary on the infamous Bengali magic realist, Nabarun is an exclamation mark in Bengali literature, the emphatic interjector. The film tries to get into the noisy, grimy, scratchy insides of Nabarun's mind as his characters shamelessly hustle, behave atrociously and try to exist in a violent hostile world.
Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A citified executive meets an idealistic journalist who challenges his values as he negotiates with tribal peoples to acquire their land for mining.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Shubodeep Sanyal
Manju Singh and her husband are hosting a get-together of families on a really warm night. Between the snacks, drinks and the laughs, something completely unexpected happens.
Movie - 1998, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
It is Christmas Day in Calcutta and David Dawson is off to celebrate it with his sweetheart, Nandini Shom. The meeting does not go well as Nandini wants him to start working so that they can get married and start a family, while David wants a career as a musician. She tells him that she will never see him again. Despondent, he returns to his rented apartment and is chided by his landlady, Lillian, who threatens to have him evicted as he has been delinquent in paying his rent for over a year...
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • as Senior Shailen
Three stories show the changing face of morality, the degeneration of values, the increasing pollution of the spoken language, and the changing social fabric of Bengal.