Suman Mukherjee
Suman Mukhopadhyay, or Suman Mukherjee is an Indian film director. His popular films are Herbert, Kangal Malsat, Shesher Kobita.
Career
Suman was a George A. Miller Visiting Artist at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to work for Tagore Festival. In 2022 he was on a Fulbright Fellowship with Columbia University, New York.His first cinematic directorial debut film was Herbert which was released in 2005 and won the National Film Award for Best [Feature Film in Bengali|National Award for Best Bengali film]. His feature film "Nazarband" premiered at Busan International Film Festival. His earlier film "Asamapta", premiered in IFFLA, USA. Before that "Shesher Kabita" with Rahul Bose and Konkona Sen Sharma premiered at the Dubai International Film Festival and was released on 7 August 2015. "Kangal Malsat" his 4th feature film released in August 2013. Mahanagar@Kolkata was completed in 2009. The film was screened in Munich, Kerala and New York film festivals. His second film Chaturanga, based on Tagore's novel, was completed in 2008 and premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival. Chaturanga was screened in 36 national and international festivals. The film received a Gran Prix award at Bridgefest, Sarajevo; the Best Director award at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival and the Golden Palm at Mexico International Film Festival.
Recently Mukhopadhyay has done a Zee5 original feature film Posham Pa and directed five episodes of Parchhayee based on Ruskin Bond stories.
Suman's latest theatre productions are "Tiner Tolowar", "Bechara B.B", "Aajker Sajahan" and an adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya". In 2022, he directed "Shikhandi", a solo act, which opened in New Jersey..
Mukhopadhyay has done theatre productions ranging from European drama to major adaptations of Bengali works. He used to be a part of the Bengali theatre Group Chetana. Among his many works some are The Cherry Orchard with National School of Drama, Raja Lear with Minerva Repertory Theatre, Sunyo Sudhu Sunyo Noy, Bisarjan, Teesta Paarer Brittanto and Samay Asamayer Brittanto, adapted from the novels by Debesh Roy and Mephisto, based on Klaus Mann's German novel. He has also staged Rabindranath Tagore's Raktakarabi; Falguni-Prelude, Shakespeare/Brecht's Coriolanus and Śūdraka's The Little Clay Cart. He directed The Man of the Heart at the University of California, Berkeley and Girish Karnad's Nagamandala at the Department of Theatre, Kalamazoo College, Michigan. Man of the Heart was also invited to Barbican Centre, London.
Suman Mukhopadhyay's feature film "Putulnacher Itikatha", based on the novel by Manik Bandyopadhyay, was selected for the Big Screen Competition in the 54th International [Film Festival Rotterdam], 2025.
Filmography
Feature films
- Herbert
- Chaturanga
- Mahanagar@Kolkata
- Kangal Malsat
- Shesher Kobita
- Asamapta
- Posham Pa - Hindi
- Nazarband
- ''Putulnacher Itikatha''
Awards
"Nazarband" - Audience Award at River to River Indian Film Festival, Florence"Posham Pa" - Kali Film Award at Female Filmmakers Festival, Berlin
Recipient of MPA/APSA Script Development Award at Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Brisbane
- His film Chaturanga received the Gran Prix at Bridge Fest, Sarajevo; Best Director at Philadelphia Independent Film Festival and the Golden Palm at Mexico International Film Festival.
- His film Herbert for Silver Lotus for the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali, 2005.Audience Award at the Dhaka International Film Festival, 2006.