Shiboprosad Mukherjee


Shiboprosad Mukherjee is an Indian Bengali filmmaker, writer and actor. He, collaborating with Nandita Roy, debuted with their film Icche, which garnered both critical acclaim as well as commercial success. The director duo is known for making socially relevant films which are also entertaining to the viewers. They have also directed some of the popular most new age Bengali films like Praktan, Bela Seshe, Icche, Muktodhara, Accident, Alik Sukh and Ramdhanu,Haami,Konntho,Gotro which were critically acclaimed as well as enjoyed commercial success. He also serves as a partner at Windows Productions. His film, Praktan, bagged multiple National Awards.

Early life and education

Shiboprosad Mukherjee was born on 20 May 1974 at Baranagar in the northern fringes Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He was a student of Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School and later completed his high school from Hindu School. He pursued his graduation in Political Science Honours from Jadavpur University.

Personal life

He married journalist Zinia Sen in 2016.

Film and television career

Acting

He joined the theatre school as a trainer after completing his schooling. He participated in the T.I. E Project, while being under the guidance of eminent theatre personality Rudraprasad Sengupta and also attended a workshop conducted by Ibrahim Alkazi. He was also guided by Rituporno Ghosh when he was working as a freelance journalist in Anandalok, during his acting days. He debuted in the year 1995 he starred in Zee Bangla, with 'Ekushe Pa', directed by Raja Dasgupta. Later he went on to work in other daily television Serials like Janmabhoomi, Ghoom Nei, etc.

Television

Although as a director and producer he has worked with all the leading channels in West Bengal and Bangladesh and has designed television programmes of duration not less than 10,000 hours, he has been a long term associated with ETV Bangla from its inception. From 1999 to 2002, he was a senior programming associate at ETV Bangla and currently, he is behind conceptualising, designing & producing 6 hours of original programming daily. With the credit of more than 50 non-fiction shows for Bengali television completely, designed by him, he has also conceptualised the first Bengali women's magazine programmes on television – Sreemoti. He is also the first to launch Reality Show in Bengali television – Ritur Mela Jhoom Tara Ra Ra.
He started his own production company named "Windows Productions", along with his partner Nandita Roy and together they have produced many non-fiction and fiction programmes.

Production

Filmography

Awards