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Dibakar Banerjee
Banerjee at the Gangs of Wasseypur screening in 2012
Born (1969-06-21) 21 June 1969 (age 54)
New Delhi, India
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)film director, screenwriter, ad-filmmaker
Years active2006–present

Dibakar Banerjee is an Indian film director and screenwriter, known for his work in Hindi films. Banerjee started his career in advertising, being a feature filmmaker, he still continues to be an ad filmmaker.[1][2] He also runs his own film production company, Dibakar Banerjee Productions.

As a film maker, he is known for Khosla Ka Ghosla (2006), Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008), both of which won National Film Award's.[3][4] His next film was the experimental Love Sex aur Dhokha (2010). It was followed by the political drama Shanghai (2012) and Bombay Talkies (2013), which was made for the celebration of the centenary year of Indian cinema. He then went on to direct Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015), based on the fictional detective Byomkesh Bakshi created by the Bengali writer Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay.

In 2010, he made his third film, Love Sex aur Dhokha, where one of the three sub-plots in the movie is loosely based on the infamous 2004 Delhi MMS scandal.[5]

Early life and education

Dibakar Banerjee was born and brought up at New Rohtak Road near Karol Bagh, in West Delhi, and studied at Bal Bharati Public School, Delhi.[6][7][8]

After finishing his schooling, he joined the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad to study visual communications and graphic design, but left it two and a half years later. Back in New Delhi, he worked briefly with audio-visual filmmaker Sam Mathews.[8][9]

Career

He joined advertising as a copywriter first with Shems Combit, TBWA Anthem, and then he joined Contract Advertising, Delhi, where he worked with Pradeep Sarkar, who was then a creative director at the agency. Screenwriter Jaideep Sahni was also one of his colleagues, who later penned Khosla Ka Ghosla's story, screenplay, dialogues and lyrics.

In 1997, he left Contract to launch his own company, 'Watermark', with two ex- NID friends, promos for Channel V and MTV and Ad films for major brands. With friend and ex-colleague Jaideep Sinha he conceptualised his debut film "about Delhi, based in Delhi", Khosla Ka Ghosla (2006) starring Anupam Kher and Boman Irani, shot in locations in and around New Delhi. The film went on to receive not just accolades for him but also a National Film Award amongst others,[3][10] and brought him in the list of new filmmakers who were bringing about a marked shift in Bollywood themes, which typically focuses on stories & characters from in and around Mumbai.[11][12]

In 2008, he co-wrote and directed his second feature, also set in his hometown Delhi,[1] Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, with Abhay Deol and Paresh Rawal, it was premiered at the IFFI, Goa,[6] and also at MoMA, New York.[13] Commercially it was released in the 26/11 weekend, though it went on to become a sleeper hit;[14] later The New York Times described it as "a breezy mix of satire and realism",[15] and the film won three Filmfare Awards.

In 2010, he directed India's first film shot entirely on Digital Camera, Love Sex aur Dhokha (LSD),which won him critical acclaim. A cutting satire on lapsing social mores fuelled by materialistic greed and technological media advancement, it continued his oeuvre of grappling with the life of anchor-less middle-class & the completely amoral nouveau riche thrown up by India's economic boom of the 1990s. Screened in key festivals around the world it went on to get him international acclaim.

In 2012, he directed Shanghai, a critically acclaimed political thriller involving an assassination, wherein Abhay Deol, who was the lead in his previous film Oye Lucky!, plays one of the three principal characters of the film, a Tamil IAS officer. The film also stars one of Bollywood's most popular stars, Emraan Hashmi. The film is based on the 1967 Greek novel Z written by Vassilis Vassilikos, which was also made into a film by Costa-Gavras. Shanghai released on 8 June 2012, to generally positive response.[16][17]

In 2013, Banerjee adapted Satyajit Ray's short story- Patol Babu, Film Star, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui for Bombay Talkies (2013). It was the part of the anthology film, made by four directors Including -Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar. The film was made as a celebration of 100 years of Indian cinema.[18][19] The film under-performed at the box office, but was well recieved by critics; specially Banerjee's story. Anupama Chopra in her review mentioned: "Dibakar narrates his story with such tenderness and Siddiqui is so good that by the end, I was wiping away tears".[20]

Personal life

Dibakar Banerjee is married to Richa Puranesh, who has an FMCG marketing background,[8] and the couple lived in Delhi for many years. After the success of Khosla Ka Ghosla, the couple moved to Mumbai and live in Parel, Mumbai with their 3-year-old daughter.

Controversy

Infamous thief Bunty alias Devinder Singh wanted to kill film director Dibakar Banerjee, whose film Oye Lucky Lucky Oye was based on the notorious thief's deeds. When Bunty was being interrogated by the Kerala police after he was nabbed by the Pune police at a lodge in the city on Saturday. They claimed he had visited Kerala to kill Banerjee. A senior Pune police officer, who was present during the interrogations, said, "When Kerala police interrogated Bunty, he revealed that he wanted to kill Banerjee. However, when he failed to do so, he struck at the house of an NRI businessman."[21][22]

Filmography

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b "Banerjee ready with second film". Chennai, India: The Hindu. 31 October 2008.
  2. ^ "Imran Khan makes debut in Coke ad". Indiatimes.com Movies. 11 February 2010.
  3. ^ a b "The first rush". The Telegraph (Kolkata). Calcutta, India. 14 October 2006.
  4. ^ Mukherjee, Aparajita (25 January 2010). "Dibakar gets lucky with Oye Lucky..." The Times of India.
  5. ^ "Delhi MMS scandal inspires Dibakar's 'Love, Sex Aur Dhoka'". The Indian Express. 29 December 2009.
  6. ^ a b "Out to steal hearts". Chennai, India: The Hindu. 29 November 2008.
  7. ^ "CUT TO DELHI". The Indian Express. 15 February 2009.
  8. ^ a b c "The Quiet Riot: The middle class loves Dibakar Banerjee's films." Tehelka. 20 February 2010.
  9. ^ Sahu, Shambhu (23 October 2006). "'You have to create a believable reality'". The Times of India.
  10. ^ Taran Adarsh (22 September 2006). "Movie review: Khosla Ka Ghosla, Rocky". The Indian Express.
  11. ^ Singh, Madhur (11 October 2007). "Bollywood Changes Its Tune". TIME.
  12. ^ "The old in the new: By subverting popular idioms, a new wave of filmmakers are redefining Hindi cinema". Screen. 28 August 2009.
  13. ^ Dasgupta, Priyanka (5 June 2009). "I plan to do a political thriller: Dibakar". The Times of India.
  14. ^ "Role play". Screen. 3 July 2009.
  15. ^ Rachel Saltz (4 June 2009). "The Variety of Life, Real and Imagined, in Movie-Mad India". The New York Times.
  16. ^ "Abhay Deol in Dibakar's political thriller". Screen. 25 December 2009.
  17. ^ "Abhay to learn Tamil". The Times of India. 24 December 2009.
  18. ^ "Bollywood directors join hands to pay homage to Indian cinema". The Times of India. 7 May 2012. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  19. ^ Dubey, Bharati (25 January 2012). "Film industry to mark Phalke centenary". The Times of India. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  20. ^ Chopra, Anupama (4 May 2013). "Anupama Chopra's review: Bombay Talkies". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 4 May 2013.
  21. ^ "Bunty Chor wanted to kill 'Oye Lucky...s director Dibakar Banerjee". Daily News and Analysis. 28 January 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  22. ^ "Delhi, from reel to real – The Times of India". The Times of India. 10 December 2010.
  23. ^ "National Film Awards: Priyanka gets best actress, 'Antaheen' awarded best film". The Times of India. 23 January 2010.
  24. ^ http://www.mediasarkar.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1949:second-irds-film-awards-for-social-concern&catid=115:entertainment-&Itemid=231

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