Partho Sen-Gupta was born in Mumbai (Bombay), India in 1965. He started his career as an apprentice in the art department in the studios of ‘Bollywood’. He then set up his own design studio and worked on numerous advertising films and feature films, designing sets and specializing in SFX. He was Art director on Alain Corneau’s Nocturne Indien in 1989. He won the award for Best Art Director in India in 1989.
In 1993, he was awarded a scholarship to study film direction at the FEMIS, the French film institute in Paris. MORE...
One can also crowd-fund the project and get super perks. Check it out www.sunrisethefilm.com/crowdfunding Let me introduce you to my new feature film project, Arunoday (Sunrise). Sunrise, to be shot in Mumbai, stars Adil Hussain (Life of Pi) and Tannishtha Chatterjee (Brick Lane, Hava Aney Dey). It tells the story of Joshi, an embittered Mumbai cop who has been searching for his missing daughter for ten years since she disappeared one day after school. Joshi’s quest is used to reveal the horror of child trafficking and exploitation in India, a taboo subject which nonetheless affects a huge number of the children in the world’s most populous democracy, a country where lives are often cheap. Hava Aney Dey (Let the Wind Blow) 93′ Hindi with Eng stl is now available online VOD portal http://www.pixelwala.org/ Check it out! Arsenal Distribution, Berlin which encompasses about 2000 titles has acquired Hava Aney Dey for distribution in Germany and other German speaking territories. The film would be released in the art film circuit soon. There is also talks of a DVD release for the German market. On the occasion of the exhibition, “Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India” at the Deutsche Guggenheim, the the Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin will present the film and discussion series, “Moving Politics – Cinemas from India”, curated by Dorothee Wenner and Nicole Wolf. Three program blocks with a selection of recent feature and documentary films as well as several classics of Indian film history will give an impression of the diversity with which (film) policies are made in India. Read the rest of this entry » Hava Aney Dey is screened at a special screening at the Cambridge Film festival during the Globalisation of Indian Cinema: Opportunities for the West conference. The Centre for India & Global Business was proud to partner with Screen East and the North Sea Partnership, Blood Orange Media and the Cambridge Film Festival to host an event that explored global knowledge networks in the world of cinema, with a focus on engagement between India’s film industry with global players. Read the rest of this entry » Global Lens 2008 now in its fifth year, will première at the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art), New York in January, before embarking on year-long tour of over 50 cities across the United States. “The films selected for Global Lens 2008 are beautiful, powerful stories that represent the best of cinema from around the world-they must be seen and experienced,” says Susan Weeks Coulter, Board Chair of The Global Film Initiative. Global Lens 2008, now in its fifth year, will première at the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art), New York in January, before embarking on year-long tour of over thirty cities across the United States.
Sunrise अरुणोदय (Arunoday) website
Check out the new Sunrise अरुणोदय (Arunoday) blog and website – www.sunrisethefilm.com. One can find a lot of information regarding the progress of the production, technical information and tests, making of and behind the scenes videos, podcasts, casting information. As the production goes along I’ll be adding lots of other stuff.
Sunrise – Arunoday selected in Locarno Open Doors 2011
Great news this morning! On the Locarno Film Festival Website – Press Release saying-
“From over 200 projects submitted, in 18 different languages, from 30 regions in India, these are the 12 finalists which will participate in Open Doors, the Festival del film Locarno’s co-production lab.”
Sunrise (Arunoday) was one of them.
Sunrise – Crowdfunding my new film project
Watch Hava Aney Dey online VOD
Hava Aney Dey acquired in Germany
‘Hava Aney Dey’ screening on 30th June in Berlin
Moving Politics – Cinemas from India
An event in cooperation with the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin.
Berlin research trip
I am here in Berlin for 3 months researching for my new film project. My partner A is here too working on her new book. This is going to be a new experience working with my 6 month old daughter on my lap 
. I just hope the weather is going to be nice at least. I like Berlin a lot and this will be my first long trip here.
Hava Aney Dey screening in Cambridge University
Hava Aney Dey screening at the MoMA, NYC
Hava Aney Dey (Let the Wind Blow). 2004.
screening at the Museum of Modern Art, New York on Thursday, January 17 2008, 18:00;
Wednesday, January 23 2008, 20:00. T2
Hava Aney Dey is in Global Lens 2008
The Global Film Initiative announced today ten award-winning narrative, feature films from Argentina, China, Croatia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Lebanon, Philippines and South Africa that will headline the Global Lens 2008 film series.