BIO
SUMAN MUKHOPADHYAY
Suman Mukhopadhyay’s films deal with the socio-political realities and engage in critical assessment of the contemporary. His explorations into the subaltern lives and histories have lent a distinction to his filmmaking and theatre productions.
Suman has directed nine full-length feature films including Putulnacher Itikatha(2023); Nazarband (2020); Asamapta (2017) , and Herbert (2005), which won the National Award for Best Regional Film that year.​ He participated and won awards in various national and international theatre and film festivals including Busan, Montreal, Dubai, Munich, San Francisco, Seattle, and Kerala etc. Suman has also made a number of documentaries, TV series, short films and cine-plays. He was conferred with an award from Motion Picture Association and Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Brisbane in 2017. His latest film Putulnacher Itikatha (The Puppet’s Tale) had its world premiere at International Film Festival of Rotterdam 2025. Suman Mukhopadhyay is one of India’s leading theatre directors and done productions ranging from European drama to major adaptations of Bengali masterpieces and Indian plays. His major plays are Teesta Paarer Brittanto, Mephisto, Bisarjan and King Lear. Suman taught and directed plays at UC Berkeley, University of Toledo, Kalamazoo College and Barnard College in the USA. He was on a Fulbright fellowship (2022) at Columbia University, New York, and was a George A. Miller Visiting Artist, UIUC (2023). Very recently, he is recipient Hubert Bals Development Fund 2025.
