Shantanu Bagchi Wiki, Age, Wife, Family, Biography & More – FilmyVoice

Shantanu Bagchi is an Indian movie director who is understood for steering the Bollywood movie ‘Mission Majnu’ in 2023.

Wiki/Biography

Shantanu Bagchi was born in Calcutta. He pursued his commencement in graphic design on the Nationwide Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Shantanu was impressed by Satyajit Ray since he was a toddler. He first met him when he was 5 – 6 years outdated and even performed a task in his movie Sonar Kella as a toddler artist. He performed the function of a boy who was kidnapped rather than Mukul. When he watched the movie ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’ directed by Satyajit Ray for the primary time, he turned keen on filmmaking. As a toddler, he was additionally excited about animation however he may solely see the animation on Disney.

Shantanu Bagchi as a toddler with Satyajit Ray

Bodily Look

Peak (approx.): 5′ 5″

Hair Color: Black

Eye Color: Black

Household

Dad and mom & Siblings

There’s not a lot data accessible about his dad and mom and siblings.

Spouse & Kids

There’s not a lot data accessible about his spouse.

Profession

Movie

Shantanu began his profession as a toddler artist. He has appeared in 4 to 5 movies as a toddler actor. He acted within the movie Ramer Sumati in 1985 which was based mostly on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s work. In 2023, he directed the movie ‘Mission Majnu’ which was trending within the prime 10 movies listing in 18 international locations on Netflix together with India, Canada, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Sri Lanka. It additionally turned the No. 2 non-English movie globally on Netflix in its opening weekend of launch and took the primary spot in India.

Poster of the movie ‘Mission Majnu’

Commercial

He moved to Mumbai to pursue his profession as an advert filmmaker. In 1991, he made his first advert movie for Rasna’s immediate orange drink which was an unpaid mission. He has labored on round 500 advert commercials throughout manufacturers and has labored with actors like Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Kajol, Saif Ali Khan, Brett Lee, Sachin Tendulkar and Katrina Kaif. Based on him, the celebrities he labored with by no means confirmed tantrums to him and he didn’t face any drawback working with them. He obtained many worldwide awards and his work was appreciated at many huge world ranges from Cannes. In 2015, he directed the advert movie for Nycil Cool Bathe.

Awards, Honours, Achievements

• New York Competition Award twice

Information/Trivia

• He’s very near Satyajit Ray’s household and retains in contact with Sandip (Ray) who he visited when he went to fulfill his sister in Kolkata.

• In an interview, he stated that he used to ship tales via his advertisements which satisfied the viewers. He obtained numerous movie scripts however he didn’t like every. Lastly, he made his debut in 2023 as a movie director after he preferred the script of the movie ‘Mission Majnu.’

• Based on him, he additionally obtained inspiration from different filmmakers like Vittorio De Sica, Majid Majidi, Akira Kurosawa, Quentin Tarantino, Alfred Hitchcock, James Cameron, and Ridley Scott.

• He labored with one among India’s main kids’s comics magazines to indicate his illustration work when he was a scholar.
  

  An illustration work by Shantanu Bagchi

• He has created two animation movies based mostly on sketches of RK Laxman and work of Jamini Roy.

• A few of his TVCs have been based mostly on sketches of RK Laxman and work of Jamini Roy.

• In an interview, he talked about working in a spy movie and stated that he was all the time excited about making movies about individuals who weren’t very well-known. He thought that Indian historical past was the perfect place to discover a spy story. Within the interview, he talked about engaged on a spy movie and stated,
  

  It’s a multi-plot movie. To maintain the tempo and inform it in an engrossing means was the problem. However I get pleasure from watching spy thrillers and it was an excellent story based mostly on actual occasions. I used to be excited and kicked to direct such attention-grabbing materials.”

• Based on him, he confronted some challenges as a result of he was a first-time director. In an interview, he stated that as a result of it was his first time, he couldn’t deliver out his inventive aspect completely and the actors who labored with him took a while to belief him.

• After the discharge of his movie ‘Mission Majnu,’ it obtained criticism from actor Adnan Siddiqui who took to social media to say that the movie was misrepresenting Pakistanis within the movie. He additional stated that the movie was “distasteful” and factually inaccurate. In a social media put up, he stated that Pakistanis “don’t put on cranium caps, surma, and tawiz, neither throw adaabs” however Sidharth Malhotra who portrayed the function of Tariq was seen carrying them within the movie.