Arenowned National award winning Scriptwriter & Film Editor/ director. A Graduate in Philosophy from Calcutta University and a Diploma holder in Cinema from FTII, Pune. Mr. Sutanu Gupta has been an active film writer/director/Editor since the last two decades in Indian film Industry. His knowledge in the field of Cinema is legendary, and his work in various fields has been appreciated recognized and rewarded by the Indian Film Industry. He has edited many Advertising Films, Short Films and documentaries, including Govind Nihalani’s award winning documentary on NDDB and Uma Segal’s NATIONAL AWARD winning documentary film on slum-demolitions named, SHELTER. He also wrote the critically acclaimed Govind Nihalini’s mega-serial TAMAS, Shyam Benegal’s epic-serial DISCOVERY OF INDIA and Ketan Mehta’s feature film HERO HIRALAL. Along with director Raj Kumar Santoshi he was bestowed with the NATIONAL AWARD & FILMFARE AWARD for feature film GHAYAL. He also was actively involved in writing the story screenplay for NATIONAL AWARD winning film DAMINI for which he also received the FILMFARE AWARD for the BEST STORY. He donned the hat of writer, producer and Director for the Super-natural Television serials AGAR and ROSHNI. Shortly he started writing for Mahesh Bhatt’s TV serial ZAMEEN-ASMAAN and all the episodes of Raman Kumar and Karan Shah’s mini-series named X-ZONE. His contribution to films is no less. He has written the Story & Screenplay for many feature films released in the recent past, namely, ANJAAM, FARZ, DILLAGI, BADAL, KISMAT, HAWA, SHAHEED: 23rdMARCH, along with a very successful BENGALI film named HAAR-JEET. He was instrumental in writing the screenplay for the film directed by Mr. Ajay Devgan starring himself & Kajal titled, “YOU, ME AUR HUM!” also recently wrote ZINDAGI LIVE on euthanasia which is about to release. Also wrote the Story& Screenplay of a Punjabi film titled, “THE LION OF PUNJAB”, directed by Guddu Dhanoa, which fetched the Best Actor’s award to it’s lead actor Daljeet Dashanj. His contribution towards Bengali films and television is also immense, he wrote t “KANKANJALI”, a mega TV Serial Produced by Prasenjeet Chatterji and aired on Zee Bangla. He has also written the biopic titled, “PARTITION”, on the life of Shaheed Nanak Singh, to be shot in London by director Avtar Bhogal for Producer Mr. Rami Ranger. Among the current assignments are, “HEADLINES”, a socio-political satire to be directed by Ashwini Dhir, which is scheduled to go on the floor in the near future. At present writing the Story & Screenplay of “I AM NOT DAMINI”~ a sequel to “DAMINI”, an issue based researched-film on assaults on women, Produced by Nickel Encyclomedia. He has also written an Odhia Film based on the short story ’MIMANSA’ of Dr. Pradeep Das which was Directed by Chakradhar Sahu and has been released recently with critical acclaim. Not only in the field of Cinema he’s also writing a collection of short stories and a book of Philosophical essays named LIQUID RAINBOW to be published as soon as they get completed! He has been active and involved in conducting guest lectures, taking workshops with the students in various campuses, participating in the admission process, staff selection and formulating the syllabus, as well as being an examiner for the Post Graduate and Undergraduate students in media schools.