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Rishabh Paul - Film-Actor/Director
Rishabh Paul, born on 1st November, 1975, was brought up in Calcutta, West Bengal, as both his parents were working there. He did his schooling in Don Bosco School, Park Circus, Calcutta, West Bengal and Basil School, Vadodhara, Gujarat. Later, he did his pre degree course (equivalent of plus two) from Cochin, Kerala and thereafter pursued his Bachelors' in Commerce from Kolkata's, St.Xavier's College.

During his childhood he was also very obsessed in chasing his dream career in "film-making". As a result of which, during his stay in Cochin, where he was doing his pre-degree course, he was also an on-stage singer and mimicry artiste. Performed on various venues for a span of a little over one year, while doing his studies. It is here at this stage of his life where he decided that he is going to seriously take up "film-making" as his profession for life.

Post his graduation he joined Chitrabani Calcutta, for pursuing his film-studies and completed in 1999. He worked initially as a digital sound track cleaner under the erudite Debjit Biswas an ex-IITian and did several projects from HMV-The Gramophone Company of India (specifically, The Golden Hour series), where he also learned the nuances of sound engineering, Voice-over and practiced sound-editing.

After completing his film studies, he moved to Chennai, Tamil Nadu in 2000, ambitiously heading for the Tamil film industry. Since then worked under several directors. A budding film-maker by profession, he has worked as an assistant director in about 28 feature films spanning both the Tamil and Malayalam film industries. Nevertheless, learnt the craft of practical film-making. Meanwhile also tried his skill in acting and has acted in a little over 20 films in Tamil and Malayalam along with donning the attire of an assistant director.

Meanwhile in the year 2004 he was about to announce "Cindrella", one of his ambitious multi-starrer bi-lingual projects, in the capacity of an executive producer, which later got shelved due to reasons inexplicable, and a major personal break down, following which he went on a long hiatus from the film industry for a long span of 6 years.

During these 5-6 years he served in the ITES sector and worked with one of the giants called HCL and resigned as a Team Lead in 2010 for personal business reasons which further went on to cause serious health hazards on him.

It was during this time where he got an offer to work once more and start all over again as an associate director for a Tamil film directed by one of his old time buddies and since then his journey towards being a Film-maker continues till date.