Kamaleswar Mukherjee

Kamaleswar Mukherjee
Born	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Film director, Screenwriter, Actor
Known for	Meghe Dhaka Tara Chander Pahar

Kamaleswar Mukherjee is a Bengali film director and ad maker. As of March 2013, he directed four movies. In the film Meghe Dhaka Tara, Mukherjee dealt with Bengali film director Ritwik Ghatak's time spent in a mental asylum.

Kamaleshwar Mukherjee is a physician by training, and an alumnus of the Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, when it was affiliated with the University of Calcutta. He moved on initially to the profession of advertisement making and then film making.

After working as an advertisement maker, Mukherjee wrote (dialogue/screenplay) Amit Sengupta's film Natobor Notout in 2010. His directorial debut, the well acclaimed film Uro Chithi was released in 2011. This film interwoven 12 text messages with 12 different characters, combining shades of life spanning across 12 months. His next venture was Meghe Dhaka Tara, inspired by the life of Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak and attempts to portray that period of the life of Ghatak when he was admitted into a mental asylum for treatment. Meghe Dhaka Tara was most critically acclaimed film in Bengali film circuit. His next film is Chander Pahar, based on a novel of Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay released in December 2013.Chander Pahar is the costliest film made in Bengali language and is still the biggest blockbuster of the Bengali cinema.The film is shot in Africa and stars Dev, the biggest male star in Bengal. He is also a member and active stage actor of Kolkata-based theatre group "Rashbehari Shailushik". He also made a film Khawto starring Prasenjit Chatterjee, another big star from Bengal. Kamaleswar's ongoing film project is the highest budget film in Bengal called Amazon Obhijaan which was shot in Brazil and is in the post production stage.

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