Sanjoy Nag
Sanjoy Nag, born and raised in Kolkata, started out with documentaries before branching out to feature films.
His debut feature 'MEMORIES IN MARCH',(with Deepti Naval, Raima Sen & Rituparno Ghosh) won the National Award for the Best English film 2010 and was also a part of the Indian Panorama at IFFI, Goa 2011. It was world premiered at the Pusan International Film Festival 2010, South Korea in 2010 and subsequently screened at MAMI, Mumbai; Kerala International FF at Trivandrum; MIACC, New York (where it won the best Screenplay Award); Durban International FF, Chennai Int. FF; Pune International FF; Gold Coast FF (New York); London Indian FF; Melbourne and Sydney Film Festivals, Spain (Deepti Naval was awarded the Best Actress), among others.
His second feature 'PARAPAAR', based on a Moti Nandy novel in Bengali, has had a 100 day run in the theatres. Cast: Rituparna Sengupta, Paoli Dam, Bratya Basu, Ahmed Reza Rubel(Bangladesh) / Cinematography: Indranil Mukherjee / Editing: Sanjib Datta / Sound Design: Dipankar Chaki / Anirban Sengupta / Music: Sourendra / Soumyojit / Lyrics: Srijato / Playback: Asha Bhosle, Papon Mahanta, Kaushiki Chakroborty, Subhamita Banerjee, Chandrani Banerjee, Ashtam Mandal / Production Design: Susanta Paul Presented by Debabrata Bhattacharya, Ashok Kumar Das, Kaushik Kumar & Mahesh Agarwal / Produced by: Purti Entertainment Pvt. Ltd
He is presently busy completing his English / Hindi feature "GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE' based on his own Story / Script and starring Revathy, Rituparna Sengupta, Shweta Tripathi, Tejaswini Kolhapure & Shabana Azmi.
He closely collaborated with Rituparno Ghosh in "JEEVAN SMRITI", a film based on Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, playing the bard himself onscreen. He was also the co-director of "CHITRANGADA". He was last seen onscreen as Debendranath Tagore in "KADAMBARI" directed by Suman Ghosh. Next up is "SHAHEB BIBI & GOLAAM" directed by Pratim D. Gupta.