Dipak Mandal

Dipak Mandal with Bappaditya Bandopadhyay at the post-filming party of Sohra Bridge (2015)

Dipak Mandal (also misspelled as 'Dipak Mandol' and 'Deepak Mandal') is a film editor based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He has edited more than 50 Indian films in several languages (including Bengali, Assamese, Hindi, and English). Many of the movies edited by him, including Satarupa Sanyal's Onyo Opalaa (2015), Bappaditya Bandopadhyay's Sohra Bridge (2015) and Elar Char Adhyay (2012) were selected for the Indian Panorama Film Festival in 2015 and 2012. Among other films edited by Mandal, Nayika Sangbad (2013), also directed by Bandopadhyay, enjoyed considerable commercial success.

He also edited the National Award-winning movie Houseful (2009) directed by Bappaditya Bandopadhay. He was a long time associate of the late director with whom he worked from 2002 to 2015.

He has also edited for directors such as Hiren Bora in Khobh (2014) and Somnath Sen in Atmogopon (2011).

Recently, he edited Guha Manab (The Cave Man) for Paromita Munshi and River of Darkness (2016) for Satarupa Sanyal both of which were selected for the Kolkata International Film Festival in 2016.

Life and career

Dipak Mandal was born near Raiganj, the district town of Uttar Dinajpur in West Bengal. He studied at the department of film studies of Jadavpur University, graduating in 1998. Thereafter, he began his career as an assistant editor, working with film directors such as Goutam Ghose, before working on a regular basis with Satarupa Sanyal, Bappaditya Bandopadhyay and Hiren Bora.[1] He came to prominence at a national level around 2009 when Bandopadhyay's Houseful received acclaim at the 57th National Film Awards.

Filmography

Year Film Director Language Type
2009 Houseful Bappaditya Bandopadhyay Bengali Feature
2011 Kagojer Bou Bappaditya Bandopadhyay Bengali Feature
2011 Bhalo Meye Mondo Meye[2] Somnath Sen Bengali Feature
2011 Aath Pake Bandha[3] Ruby Gupta; Kunal Choudhury Bengali Feature
2012 Elar Char Adhyay Bappaditya Bandopadhyay Bengali Feature
2012 Antore Bahire Somnath Sen Bengali Feature
2012 Kanchenjunga Express Arnab Ghosh Bengali Feature
2013 Nayika Sangbad Bappaditya Bandopadhyay Bengali Feature
2013 Kaal Madhumas Prabir Roy Bengali Feature
2013 Atmogopon[4] Somnath Sen Bengali Feature
2014 Once Upon A Time In Kolkata Satarupa Sanyal Bengali Feature
2014 Hoondajali Message Sankar Sanyal Odia/English Documentary
2014 Khobh (Anguish)[5] Hiren Bora Assamese Feature
2014 Anundoram Borooah, A Forerunner of Modern Assam Dr. Swapan Saha; Amalesh Dasgupta Assamese/English Documentary
2015 Sohra Bridge Bappaditya Bandopadhyay Bengali/English Feature
2015 Onyo Opolla Satarupa Sanyal Bengali Feature
2015 Chitra Abhigyan Mukherjee Bengali Feature
2015 Smritir Bandhan Arun Kumar Choudhury Bengali Feature
2016 Pather Sandhan Sikta Biswas Bengali Feature
2016 Death[6] Sandip Banerjee Bengali Short Film
2016 Rainbow of Rhythm Satarupa Sanyal Bengali Documentary
2016 Sovabazar Rajbarir Andarmahal[7] Satarupa Sanyal Bengali Docu-fiction
2016 The Last Tram Paromita Munshi Bengali Short Film
2017 Guha Manab Paromita Munshi Bengali Feature
2017 Aro Aro Dao Pran Satarupa Sanyal Bengali Docu-fiction
2017 Neer Khoje Pakhi Somnath Sen Bengali Feature
2017 Dreams Beyond Horizon[8] Tapan Biswas English Documentary
2017 Sunley Zara Kheyali Das Hindi Short Film
2017 And They Made Classics ...[9] Ratnottama Sengupta English Documentary
2017 Seema – The Story Untold Hiren Bora Assamese Feature

References

  1. ↑ "Hiren Bora's Next Assamese Film Khobh Selected to Kolhapur International Film Festival". Magical Assam. 2014-12-18. Retrieved 2017-12-10.
  2. ↑ "Bhalo Meye Mondo Meye (2011)". gomolo.com. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  3. ↑ "Aath Pake Bandha (2011)". gomolo.com. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  4. ↑ "Atmogopon (2013)". gomolo.com. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  5. ↑ "Khobh - Assamese Movie 2017 - Box Office Assam". Box Office Assam. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  6. ↑ "'Death', a short film by Sandip Banerjee". gomolo.com. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  7. ↑ "'Sovabazar Rajbarir Andarmahal' - a docu-fiction by Satarupa Sanyal". gomolo.com. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  8. ↑ "Bengal Welcomes World Cinema | Kolkata International Film Festival 2017". kff.in. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  9. ↑ "Bengal Welcomes World Cinema | Kolkata International Film Festival 2017". kff.in. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
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