Director Biography
Deep, a man of many interests was confused regarding his career during his early years. After completion of his graduation in English literature, he continued doing many ode jobs until he realized that filmmaking is one such passion, where he can exercise all his interests. He devoted his valuable two years watching world movies, learning basics of film making through film journals, books on filmmaking, youtube tutorials etc. He is largely influenced by film makers Roman Polanaski, Martin Scorsese, Satyajit Ray and Andrei Tarkovsky.
In the year 2009, he directed his first shorts I am a poet with his friend co-director Shashanka das. The film was awarded as the best film in the Adda Shorts Film Festival held in the same year in Guwahati.After that, he continued with a TV series for a local entertainment channel.Written and Co-directed an episodic TV serial Jeevan Kallol under commissioned programme for DDK Dibrugarh. His last short film was a 33 minutes Hindi/Marathi language, Fishing Surmai, written and directed under his production Pohr eh Vita pictures. The film was screened in Silk Route Film Festival, Dublin Ireland. He received Best Director Jury Award in Mumbai Shorts International Festival in the year 2014 for Fishing Surmai.
A ardent lover of nature Deep often goes for hiking trips and spends time amidst nature. During one such hike back in 2000, the idea of Alifa came into his mind. He has been conceiving the idea since then and in the year 2012, he wrote down the story of Alifa.