Kaushik Ganguly

Kaushik Ganguly

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Kaushik Ganguly Profile

  • Name:
  • Kaushik Ganguly
  • Born:
  • August 4, 1968
  • Father:
  • Sunil Ganguly
  • Spouse:
  • Churni Ganguly

Kaushik Ganguly Biography

Kaushik Ganguly is a noted director, screenwriter and actor of Bengali cinema. He is the son of musician of Bengali cinema, Sunil Ganguly. He is married to noted actress, Churni Ganguly. He is known for his works that explore sexuality and Bengali movies like Ushnatar Janye (2003) and Arekti Premer Golpo (2010) belong to this category. He has also directed a few television serials for Bengali. He has directed Churni in numerous movies including her debut movie – Waaris, which happened to be his debut movie too. This movie gave Churni Bengal Journalists’ Association Award for best actress in the year 2003.

 

Ganguly was born in Kolkata on August 4, 1968 as the son of noted film personality, Sunil Ganguly. He completed his schooling from Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur. His graduation was completed from Jadavpur University where he took degree in Bengali literature. Aside his future wife Churni Ganguly and Suman Mukhopadhyay, he started a drama troupe in 1987 while at college. Same year, he started his film career as a scriptwriter. In 1995, he started directing telefilms for Bengali television and Ushnatar Janye, Ulka and Aatithi are a few of his early works. These tele films exploded the delicate subjects like lesbianism and sex determination that have never experimented before.

 

In 2004, he directed his first feature film in Bengali, Waaris, where he worked aside his future wife, Churni, Debasree Roy and Sabyasachi Chakrabarty. Though the movie received critical appreciation, commercially it was a failure at box office. In his second movie, Shunyo E Buke (2005) too, he worked aside Churni. Leading actors include - Kaushik Sen and Tota Roy Chowdhury. This movie was screened at London's Tongues on Fire Film Festival and Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema. Brake Fail, Arekti Premer Golpo and Laptop are other releases.

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Updated: November 25, 2013

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