Soukarya Ghosal

Soukarya Ghosal (Bengali: সৌকর্য ঘোষাল; born 7 June 1986)[1] is an Indian film director, lyricist, animator and screenplay writer. He works in Bengali cinema. His first feature film was Pendulum (2014).[2] His second film Loadshedding (2015),[3] which he wrote and directed for Zee Bangla Cinema Originals, was a teenage love story set in the 90's. His film Rainbow Jelly (2018),[4] was a food fantasy in Bengali. His upcoming films are Rawkto Rawhoshyo[5] and Bhoot Pori.

Soukarya Ghosal
Soukarya Ghosal
Born (1986-06-07) 7 June 1986
NationalityIndian
OccupationDirector, Writer, Lyricist, Cartoonist, Animator
Partner(s)Pooja Chatterjee

Early life

Ghosal was born and brought up in Kolkata. He attended A. K. Ghosh Memorial School and Jodhpur Park Boys School, and graduated in history from Asutosh College. He did a postgraduate course in Media Studies from University of Calcutta. His admiration for Satyajit Ray's illustrations in Sandesh magazine was a guiding force in his desire to become a professional illustrator.

Career

In 2011, he joined Sangbad Pratidin's Sunday magazine Robbar as a staff cartoonist. While working on comic series such as Tenida in Sandesh and Tenali Rama" in Kishore Bharati, he felt a strong urge for sound and motion in his art. This led him to quit his job and pursue films. Coming directly from the field of art, Ghosal based Pendulum on a surrealist painter who could physically take people into the space he drew. It took him a year to find a producer for the film.[6]

2014–2015

On 7 March 2014, Pendulum was released in West Bengal. It featured Radhika Apte, Rajesh Sharma, Sreelekha Mitra, Rajatabha Dutta, Subhasish Mukherjee, Samadarshi Dutta and Anindiya Banerjee, and was produced by Cozum Analytics Ltd. In 2015, he made his second film, Load shedding, for television. A teenage love story set in the 90s, it starred Riddhi Sen, Meghla Dasgupta,[7] Bidipta Chakraborty, Saili Bhattacharya and Joydeep Kundu, and was produced by Nideas Creations.

2016–2018

In 2016, he adapted the story of Taranath Tantrik by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay for a television series on Colors Bangla. This series was produced by Greentouch Entertainment. That year, he worked as the second unit director in Srijit Mukherji's Zulfiqar, produced by Shree Venkatesh Films. In 2017, his film production company Indigenous produced Rainbow Jelly, a food fantasy in Bengali. The film was based on an autistic orphan child who could control the human mind by cooking food with several tastes. The film depicted the gradual changes in the villain's mind and his seven different reactions as he encountered different kinds of tastes: sweet, sour, salty, spicy, pungent, astringent and bitter.[8] Rainbow Jelly was released on 25 May 2018.[9]

Filmography
Denotes films that have not yet been released
YearFilmDirectorWriterProduction
2014Pendulum[10]YesYes
Cozum Analytics
2015Loadshedding[11]YesYes
nideas Creations and Productions
2018Rainbow Jelly[12]YesYes
Indigenous Production
2020Rawkto RawhoshyoYesYes
Surinder Films
2020Bhoot PoriYesYes
Surinder Films

References
  1. "দেওয়াল ঘড়ির পিছল সুরে" (in Bengali). Anandabazar Patrika.
  2. "The industry is as much about Pendulum as it is about Chander Pahar, says Srijit Mukherji in a chat with debutant Soukarya Ghosal and t2". The Telegraph (Calcutta).
  3. "Teenage Love Story in Kolkata's Power-Cut Days: Soukarya Ghosal's "Loadshedding" Bangla Movie on Zee Original Cinema". Washington Bangla.
  4. "দর্শকের পাতে সাতরঙা জেলি". Ei Samay (in Bengali).
  5. "'রক্ত রহস্য'-তে কোয়েলের সঙ্গে কাজ করার অভিজ্ঞতা জানালেন সৌকর্য ঘোষাল". zee 24 ghanta.
  6. "Pendulum (Bengali) / Time travel recast". The Indian Express.
  7. "চতুর্থ প্রজন্ম এবার অভিনয়ে". Ei Samay.
  8. "খুদেদের ফুড ফ্যান্টাসি উপহার দেবে সৌকর্য ঘোষালের পরের ছবি". Ebela.
  9. "সূর্যের সাতটা রঙের ঘোড়া ছুটছে" (in Bengali). Anandabazar Patrika.
  10. "Pendulum Full Bengali Film". Zee5.
  11. "Loadshedding Full Bengali Film". Zee5.
  12. "Rainbow Jelly Full Bengali Film". Netflix.
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