Aniruddha Roy "Tony" Chowdhury is a Bengali

Bengali people

The Bengali people are an ethnic community native to the historic region of Bengal in South Asia. They speak Bengali , which is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages. In their native language, they are referred to as বাঙালী...

 film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

. He is the director and producer of two films: Antaheen

Antaheen

Antaheen is a 2009 Bengali film directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury. The film stars Radhika Apte, Rahul Bose, Mita Vashisth, Aparna Sen, Kalyan Ray and Sharmila Tagore.-Plot:...

and Anuranan

Anuranan

Anuranan is the directorial debut by Bengali film-maker Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury. The film premiered at the 2006 International Film Festival of India....

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Early life

As a child Chowdhury watched films like The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music is a musical by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers...

, Roman Holiday

Roman Holiday

Roman Holiday is a 1953 romantic comedy directed and produced by William Wyler and starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn. It was written by John Dighton and Dalton Trumbo, though with Trumbo on the Hollywood blacklist, he did not receive a credit; instead, Ian McLellan Hunter fronted for him...

and Haathi Mere Saathi

Haathi Mere Saathi

Haathi Mere Saathi is an Indian film and a favourite with children in the early 1970s. The movie has a Disneyesque appeal with an Indian twist...

. These films would later inspire him to become a filmmaker.

Career

Chowdhury first worked in film as an ad filmmaker. He has produced ads for Philips, Britannia, and other brands. Chowdhury began shooting in August 2006 for his first film, Anuranan, the first Bengali film to be shot in London

London

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. The film premiered at the 2006 International Film Festival of India

International Film Festival of India

The International Film Festival of India , founded in 1952, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia. Held annually in the beach town of Goa, in the Western Coast of the country, the festival aims at providing a common platform for the cinemas of the world to project the excellence of...

. It was also screened at the Cannes International Film Festival, the 2007 Mumbai Academy of Moving Images Film Festival, the Bollywood And Beyond Film Festival and the Independent South Asian Film Festival. Anuranan received positive reviews from the critics. Chowdhury received the Aravindan

G. Aravindan

Govindan Aravindan who was popularly known as G. Aravindan was a national award winning film director, screenwriter, musician and cartoonist from Kerala, India. He was known for his unorthodox way of film-making; he changed his cinematic forms consistently and experimented in story telling without...

 Puraskaram award for best debut director for Anuranan. In 2008, he won the Emerging Film-Maker Award at the Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz, California

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 Film Festival for Anuranan. His second film, Antaheen was released in January 2009 and was screened at the 2009 Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival

Indo-American Arts Council

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. It went on to win four National Film Awards

National Film Awards

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 in 2009, including one for Best Film

National Film Award for Best Film

The National Award for Best Feature film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, India, and was constituted in the year 1954. This is one of the Golden Lotus Awards given among National Film Awards...

. He is currently working on Aparajita, his adaptation of Sunil Gangopadhyay

Sunil Gangopadhyay

Sunil Gangopadhyay , is a celebrated Indian poet and novelist.-Early life:...

's Dui Nari Hate Torobari. The film will star Prasenjit Chatterjee

Prasenjit Chatterjee

Prosenjit Chatterjee Prosenjit Chatterjee Prosenjit Chatterjee (also Prosenjit Chatterjee or Proshenjit Chattopadhyay , professionally known as Proshenjit, is a Bengali film actor. His fans affectionately called him Bumba Da...

, Padmapriya

Padmapriya Janakiraman

J. Padmapriya or Padmapriya JanakiramanInitial system is an Indian film actress and model.A classical Tamil bharatanatyam dancer, Padmapriya made her acting debut in the Telugu-language film Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi , following which she appeared in a number of Malayalam and Tamil-language films...

, Kamalinee

Kamalinee Mukherjee

Kamalinee Mukherjee is an Indian actress. She has predominantly appeared in Telugu films as well as in a few Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi and Kannada language films....

, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Kalyan Roy and Soumitra Chatterjee

Soumitra Chatterjee

Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay is an iconic Bengali actor from India, known among other things for his frequent collaborations with the great Bengali film director Satyajit Ray and his constant comparison with the Bengali screen idol Uttam Kumar.-Background:Soumitra graduated from...

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Filmography

• Anuranan
  Anuranan
  Anuranan is the directorial debut by Bengali film-maker Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury. The film premiered at the 2006 International Film Festival of India....
  
    (2006)
• Antaheen
  Antaheen
  Antaheen is a 2009 Bengali film directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury. The film stars Radhika Apte, Rahul Bose, Mita Vashisth, Aparna Sen, Kalyan Ray and Sharmila Tagore.-Plot:...
  
  (2009)
• Aparajita (2011)
• Aparoopa (Announced)

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