Indrasis Acharya is an Indian film director working in Bengali cinema. He came to the prominence after directing his first feature film, Bilu Rakkhosh which won acclaim in both national and international sphere..Indrasis next worked in Pupa which got rave reviews and won many awards and accolades. It was in Hanoi international, Kolkata international film festivals and many more. Pupa won 5 best film, 2 Best Director and other awards. His third film was The Parcel for which he won the Best Director award at the 25th Kolkata International Film Festival.
Early life
Indrasis Acharya has done his B.Tech in Instrumentation and electronics from Jadavpur University after getting an honours degree in Physics from Calcutta university. Currently, he is working in a renowned consulting MNC firm.He has completed his latest Parcel and working in a new feature Maya bhoy
Career
Acharya's first feature film is Bilu Rakkhosh. The film captures a journey in search of peace and roads to the roots amidst this rapidly changing socio-technical world of synthetic emotions. Acharya made his second film Pupa. The film won multiple awards and accolades from international and national film arena. Pupa was selected as a sole entry from Bengal in competition for Kolkata International film festival. It was in competition in Hanoi international film festival, Kolkata International film festival, Singapore South Asian film festival and many more. It won 4 best film awards including Critic choice award as Best Bengali film of 2018, WBFJA and many more along with multiple best Director award. Pupa deals with father son relationship The story is based on the conflict of a young mind to choose between a career in science or to be with ailing father where a man with wisdom comes to rescue him from dilemma. The Parcel is third film by Indrasis Acharya. The film won Best Indian Director award from 25th Kolkata International film festival.The Parcel is a 2020 Indian Bengali, mystery cum psychological thriller film produced by Rituparna Sengupta and Krishna Kyal. The film features Rituparna Sengupta, Saswata Chatterjee, Anindya Chatterjee and Ambarish Bhattacharya in lead roles and Sreela Majumdar and Pradip Mukherjee as supporting characters. The story of the film revolves around a doctor-couple and Nandini, the protagonist, and mysterious parcels.
Filmography
Year
Film
Writer
Director
2017
Bilu Rakkhosh
Yes
Yes
2018
Pupa
Yes
Yes
2020
The Parcel
Yes
Yes
Short films
Acharya has made four short films till date namely UN-FAIR-Y, Oneker Moddhey Ekjon, Living beyond the Line, Ektu Antorikotar Jonno.
