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Sekhar Das is a Director and Scriptwriter Indian born on 24 november 1954
Sekhar Das (Bengali: শেখর দাস Born: 24th Nov 1954, alternate spelling Shekhar Das) is a Bengali Movie director, scriptwriter. Sekhar Das with four award winning feature films to his credit is one of the leading filmmakers of Bengal. ‘E S P’(Extra sensory perception )’s his 5th venture. Resigning from a highly successful corporate career in 1997, Sekhar started his professional career in films and television, although he earned highest reputation as an actor par excellence but preferred writing scripts in the initial stage of his career, one of which, namely, Prohor won the national and International awards. Soon he took up direction in TV and films. Directed many mystery thrillers for a leading TV channel, possibly he is the only director internationally known to have adapted great Russian Playwright Anton Chekov’s all four classics in Bengali for TV film .A globe trotter that he has been, Sekhar Das had been associated with a travelogue program for a TV Channel for nearly three years as presenter, writer and director. This program covered Europe,particularly France and Germany,from Asia, it was Vietnam, Malaysia,Singapore, Australia.
Sekhar has completed four feature films. He served on the juries for the Brisbane International film festival and also the national awards in India, he was selected as one of the selection committee members for nominating Indian film to Oscar.
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Sekhar Das
Sekhar has completed four feature films. He served on the juries for the Brisbane International film festival and also the national awards in India, he was selected as one of the selection committee members for nominating Indian film to Oscar.
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Filmography of Sekhar Das (3 films)
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Jogajog (2015)
Directed by Sekhar Das
Actors Ananya Chatterjee, Biswajit Chakraborty, Locket Chatterjee, Arjun Chakraborty, Barun Chanda, Kharaj Mukherjee
Rating62%
Critical Encounter (2005)
Directed by Sekhar Das
Genres Drama
Actors Silajit Majumder, Roopa Ganguly, Soumitra Chatterjee, Haradhan Bandopadhyay, Arjun Chakraborty, Rita Dutta Chakraborty
Rating63%
The story is of terrorism that’s plaguing different parts of the Northeast as the backdrop. Shilajeet Majumdar, a militant on the run, takes refuge in a dilapidated mansion. Rupa Ganguly stays there with her father-in-law Soumitra Chatterjee and his father Haradhan Bandopadhyay who’s confined to bed and is unable to speak. This film focuses on the friction and undercurrent of tension between the lady of the house and the terrorist. It leads to a brief mutual self-discovery that gives rise to compassion.
Mahulbanir Sereng (2004)
, 2h17Directed by Sekhar Das
Actors Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Roopa Ganguly, Arindam Sil, Aparajita Auddy, Chandrayee Ghosh, Kunal Mitra
The story of Mahulbanir Sereng is a narrative revolving around the triangular love story of Aghore (Pijush Ganguly), with his wife Saheli (Chandrayee Ghosh) and Dr. Alaktak Roy (Shilajeet Majumdar). Aghore is a police constable who works in a different place so he often stays out of hometown, in the mean time his wife Saheli gets closer with the new young doctor of their village. When Aghore came back, he get the news the Saheli is pregnant, he becomes very happy. But the all of villageman claims that the baby is the doctor's and not of Aghore's. Though Aghore tries to argue in favour of his wife and doctor but the village head calls 'Gira' by gram Panchayet (Judgement by 10 village heads). On the day of 'Gira' Saheli commits suicide and the narrator Damayanti (Rupa Ganguly) helps the doctor to run away. Another parallel story of Damayanti and Somesh Gomes (Sabyasachi Chakrobarty) goes side by side. Somesh is a social worker, the love interest of Damayanti who is the B.D.O. of that tribal area. Twelve years after this incident Damayanti comes back to the village of 'Mahulbani' and finds that besides many changes the beauty and simplicity of nature still exists.
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Critical Encounter (2005)
Directed by Sekhar Das
Genres Drama
Actors Silajit Majumder, Roopa Ganguly, Soumitra Chatterjee, Haradhan Bandopadhyay, Arjun Chakraborty, Rita Dutta Chakraborty
Rating63%
The story is of terrorism that’s plaguing different parts of the Northeast as the backdrop. Shilajeet Majumdar, a militant on the run, takes refuge in a dilapidated mansion. Rupa Ganguly stays there with her father-in-law Soumitra Chatterjee and his father Haradhan Bandopadhyay who’s confined to bed and is unable to speak. This film focuses on the friction and undercurrent of tension between the lady of the house and the terrorist. It leads to a brief mutual self-discovery that gives rise to compassion.