Agnimitra Paul

Agnimitra Paul
Born Asansol, West Bengal, India
Nationality Indian
Education Lorento Convent
Label(s) INGA

Agnimitra Paul is an Indian fashion designer primarily based in Calcutta and also works actively in the Bollywood industry.

Early life

Paul was born in Asansol, West Bengal, India in a family of doctors and academicians.[1] She went to Loreto Convent in Asansol.She dreamt of becoming a doctor initially and was all geared up to crack the joint entrance and even got admission in a medical college in Bangalore but fate had different plans for her. Her would-be husband, Partho Paul who went for a meeting with her father back then put her into oblivion regarding her career plans as he hailed from a business family where conventional paths of education were not considered a great choice. She completed her masters in botany from Jadavpur university and took a course in fashion designing mostly as a hobby and received her Diploma from the Fashion School of the Birla Institute of Liberal Arts & Management Sciences concurrently. It was after the degree that she finally prioritised her calling.

Career

She got her first big break designing for the film Koi Mere Dil Se Pooche where she designed for Esha Deol. She designed for the Bollywood film "Via Darjeeling" for Kay Kay Menon, Sonali Kulkarni, Parvin Dabas and Vinay Pathak. She has also worked in Tollywood films with actors like Mithun Chakraborty, Rituparna Sengupta, Jeet, Koel Mallick, Swastika Mukherjee and Mauli Ganguly.

She established her own fashion label, called INGA,.

Recently (in 2015) she designed for the film Naxal.

Personal life

Agnimitra Paul is married to Partho Paul, an industrialist.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2010-09-20.
  2. ↑ "Following her heart". The Telegraph. Calcutta, India. 4 November 2006.
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