Ram Kamal Mukherjee
Ram Kamal Mukherjee is an Indian film journalist, the former editor in chief of Stardust film magazine, biographer of Hema Malini, Mithun Chakraborty and Sanjay Dutt. He made his debut as filmmaker with Cakewalk starring Esha Deol. He has been regarded as one of the best Indian short filmmaker by The Times of India. In 2023 he won 69th National Film Award for his short film Ek Duaa. He has been officially nominated under Indian Panorma for Best Debutant Director for his film Binodini Ekti Natir Upakhyan at IFFI 2025.
Personal information
Mukherjee completed his graduation in History from the University of Calcutta. He completed his schooling from St Joseph's College in Calcutta, and later completed his senior schooling from Khalsa Model School. After graduation he completed a diploma course in communication from the British Council, later joined Media Studies Film and Television course in University of Calcutta.Career
Mukherjee is best known as a biographer of Hema Malini's authorized biography Beyond The Dreamgirl and India's first Power Brand Film Journalist. After working with Times of India as assistant editor, he worked with Pritish Nandy Communication as vice president and wrote columns in Midday and Ananda Bazar Patrika. Later he worked as Associate Producer in Zee TV finite series Bin Kuch Kahe.He is best known for writing India's first coffee table book on any actress, Hema Malini - Diva Unveiled, which was published by Magna Books in 2005. He was the assistant producer of the TV series Bin Kuch Kahe aired on Zee TV.
In 2019 he made his debut as filmmaker with Cakewalk starring Esha Deol in the lead role. In 2020 his film Season's Greetings, a tribute to Rituparno Ghosh fetched him national and international accolades. The film also marked return of former Miss India Celina Jaitly Haag into cinema. In 2021 he won the Best Human Rights Film at Cardiff International Film Festival for his film Rickshawala.
As an author he penned six books, in English and Hindi languages. His biography Beyond The Dreamgirl published by HarperCollins India, was released by Deepika Padukone in Mumbai. The foreword of the book was written by Prime Minister of India Mr Narendra Modi.
He had also penned a biography, Sanjay Dutt - One Man Many Lives published by Rupa Books.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Cast | Notes | Ref. |
| 2018 | Cakewalk | Esha Deol, Tarun Malhotra | Short Film | |
| 2019 | Season's Greetings | Celina Jaitly, Lillette Dubey | A tribute to Rituparno Ghosh, released on ZEE5 | |
| 2020 | Rickshawala | Avinash Dwivedi, Kasturi Chakraborty | Won Best Director award at 13th Ayodhya International Film Festival and Cafe Irani Indo Iran Film Festival. | |
| 2021 | Broken Frame | Rohit Roy, Ritabhari Chakraborty | Short Film | |
| 2021 | Shubho Bijoya | Gurmeet Choudhury, Debina Banerjee | Short Film | |
| 2021 | Ek Duaa | Esha Deol | Won Best Short Film awards at the National Film Awards | |
| 2025 | Binodiini: Ekti Natir Upakhyan | Rukmini Maitra, Kaushik Ganguly, Rahul Bose, Om Sahani | Biography of the noted theatre artist Binodini Dasi | |
| 2025 | Lokkhikantopur Local | Indraneil Sengupta, Kaushik Ganguly Rituparna Sengupta, John Bhattacharya, Rajnandini Paul, Paoli Dam | ||
| 2026 | Rukmini Maitra | Tribute to and adaptation of Draupadi's character | ||
| 2026 | - | - | - | - |