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Abhijit Guha

Abhijit Guha started his film career in mid-nineties as an apprentice to veteran cameraman Dipak Das and then continued assisting cinematographers in Mumbai and Kolkata.

“Ek Poshla Brishti” (1991) directed by Nitesh Roy was his first venture in the direction where he worked as the first assistant to the direction. This prompted him to work with famous Bengali Star/Actor Prosenjit Chatterjee in his directorial debut, “Purushottam” (Bengali/Odia) in 1992 and laterin “Aami Shei Meye” (1998) as chief assistant.

Journalist turned actor/filmmaker Sudeshna Roy and Abhijit Guha joined hands as director duo in 1994. A woman magazine programme “Manabi” for Zee Bangla was their first project. Then they did numerous fiction-non fiction programmes for television. In the first 10 years, they ideated, wrote, directed almost all forms of television software, which was aired on Zee Bangla, ETV Bangla, DD1 &7, Tara Bangla and Akash Bangla. From TV Magazines to Quiz, telefilms, short-series, daily soad to hardcore news programmes, the range was vast. Simultaneously Abhijit works as a chief assistant to the award-winning film director Rituparno Ghosh from Dahan (1997) to Chokher Bali(2003).

In 2004 Abhijit-Sudeshna started directing feature films.“Sudhu Tumi” (2004) the debut film of the duo got considerable commercial success at box office. The film had Prosenjit Chatterjee and Koel Mullick as the lead cast and introduced Gargee Roy Choudhury on the silver screen. Their second film “Teen Yari Katha” though shot in 2005 and censored after seven months of battle with CBFC Kolkata, released in 2012, due to the unavoidable circumstance. But it made its way to 8th Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival in 2006, 4th World Film Festival of Bangkok in 2006, Kolkata International Film Festival in 2006.