Nandita Roy

Nandita Roy
Born (1955-04-03) 3 April 1955
bombay, India
Occupation Film director, screenwriter
Website www.windowsproductions.com

Nandita Roy (born 3 April 1955) is an Indian film maker and screenwriter. Her directorial debut was with Shiboprosad Mukherjee for the film Icche (2011). The two have also directed Accident, Muktodhara, Alik Sukh, Ramdhanu and Bela Seshe.[1][2]

Early life

Nandita Roy was born on 3 April 1955 at Mumbai. She completed her schooling from St. Joseph's Convent High School, Mumbai, Vile Parle. She graduated with Economics from Parle College. She began work as a primary school teacher in St Joseph's Convent. Later she did her post graduation with Economics from University of Mumbai, Kalina. She married Nitish Roy in 1977.

Career

Nandita Roy began her professional career in the year 1978, she co-directed 'Agadoom-Bagadoom' a short puppet film for children; she was also a glove-puppet operator in the same film. Following which she has been a part of several projects and worked with many renowned directors.

  1. Worked as an assistant editor in Nitish Mukherjee's film 'Nayanshyama' (1983) & 'Rabibar' (1996).
  2. She worked as an assistant director in Mrinal Sen's 'Tasveer Apni Apni' (1984).
  3. She worked as an assistant to Govind Nihalani in the film and tele-serial 'Tamas'.
  4. Assisted Nitish Roy as a set dresser in Govind Nihalani's film 'Party'.
  5. Worked as the Indian set dresser in the foreign production 'The Bengal Lancers' (unreleased).
  6. Assisted Nitish Roy as a set dresser and research assistant in Shyam Benegal's tele-serial 'Bharat ek khoj', 1988 (Discovery of India).
  7. Worked as an assistant editor in the Gammon India's documentary on the 2nd Hoogly Bridge.
  8. Worked as the chief assistant director and co-script writer in Nitish Roy's Bengali film 'Ek Poshla Brishti' (1989).
  9. Worked as the chief assistant director and co-scriptwriter in Nitish Roy's Bengali film 'Tobu Mone Rekho' (1993)
  10. She worked as the Indian set dresser in the foreign production 'The Jungle Book' (1994) directed by Stephen Sommers.
  11. Worked as the chief assistant director and co-scriptwriter in Nitish Roy's Bengali film 'Jamai No.1' (1997)

She is responsible for ETV's first non-fiction & fiction production house in West Bengal and was the Creative and Administrative Manager of ETV Bangla. She is responsible for creating 19 original non-fiction programmes and starting the concept of hour-long tele films on the channel by well-known directors. She conceptualised the first Bengali women's magazine programmes on television – 'Sreemoti'.

She started her own company named WINDOWS Productions along with her partner Shiboprosad Mukherjee.[3] Together they produced many non-fiction and fiction programmes.

Concept & Direction
Channel Name of Programme
Tara Bangla Benudir Ranna Ghar
Ki Chai Aaj Ke Taka Na Sona
Zee Bangla Naari
Kaane Kaane
Ilish E Parbon
Oder Bolte Dao
Shanai
Bangla Bolche
Cadre No. 1
E-TV Bangla Ritur Mela Jhoom Tara Ra Ra
Aajker Mushkil Assan
Pujor Caravan
Pochishe Baisakh (Anondo Dhwani Jagao Gagane)
Modhukar Manjiro Baje
Chandalika (Dance Drama)
Shyama (Dance Drama)
Shapmochan (Dance Drama)
Mayar Khela (Dance Drama)
Mahanayika (live Event)
Megastar
Saath pake bandha
Ebong Rituporno
Jobab chai jobab dao
Saaf Kotha
Janata Express
Barishaler Bor Kolkatar kone
Prothoma
E-TV Bihar, UP, MP, Rajasthan Koi Kisise Kam Nahin
Galiyon Ka Raja
Aakash Bangla Swarga Live
Siddhel Chor
Kailash Prem
Swapno Sundari
Tara Muzik Anjali
Gitanjali
Gitobitan
Ganer Tori
Cholti Haoa
World of DJs
Dhitang Dhitang Bole
Cinemar Gaan
N-TV (Bangladesh) Ke Korbe Baaji Maat
Channel – I (Bangladesh) Modhukar Manjiro Baje
Music videos
24 Ghanta Aajker Naari
Doordarshan Kendra- Kolkata Bouma
Dakbabu
Rupashi Bangla Dance pe chance season 1 & 2

Filmography

Filmography as Director & Screenplay writer[4]
Release date Title CBFC rating Producer Cast
15 July 2011 Icche U Vignesh Films Sohini Sengupta
Bratya Basu
Samadarshi Dutta
Bidita Bag
Ruplekha Mitra
30 September 2011 Hello Memshaheb U/A Arijit Biswas Jeet
Priyanka Trivedi
3 August 2012 Muktodhara U/A Bachchu Biswas Rituparna Sengupta
Nigel Akkara
Bratya Basu
Debshankar Haldar
28 September 2012 Accident A Kaustav Ray Rudranil Ghosh
Shiboprosad Mukhopadhyay
Sabyasachi Chakrabarty
Sampurna Lahiri
Kanchan Mallick
19 July 2013 Alik Sukh U Windows Debshankar Haldar
Rituparna Sengupta
Sohini Sengupta
Biswanath Basu
Sayani Ghosh
Dolon Roy
Sumit Samaddar
Soumitra Chatterjee
6 June 2014 Ramdhanu U Windows Shiboprosad Mukhopadhyay
Gargi Roychowdhury
Rachna Banerjee
Kharaj Mukherjee
Akashneel Mitra
1 May 2015 Bela Seshe U Atanu Raychaudhuri, M.K. Media and Windows Soumitra Chatterjee
Swatilekha Sengupta
Shankar Chakraborty
Indrani Dutta
Kharaj Mukherjee
Aparajita Adhya
Rituparna Sengupta
Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee
Anindya Chatterjee
Monami Ghosh

Awards

Achievements

References

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