Sekhar Das
| Sekhar Das | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 24, 1954 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Film director |
Sekhar Das (Bengali: শেখর দাশ; alternate spelling Shekhar Das; born 24 November 1952) is a Bengali Movie director, scriptwriter. Sekhar Das with four award winning feature films to his credit is one of the leading filmmakers of Bengal. Jogajog (Relationships) based on Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore's classic novel has been his 7th feature film. He also made four features and ten short films for television.
Resigning from a highly successful corporate career in 1997, Sekhar started his professional career in films and television, although he earned highest reputation as an actor par excellence but preferred writing scripts in the initial stage of his career, one of which, namely, Prohor won the national and International awards. Soon he took up direction in TV and films. Directed many mystery thrillers for a leading TV channel, possibly he is the only director internationally known to have adapted great Russian Playwright Anton Chekov’s all four classics in Bengali for TV film .A globe trotter that he has been, Sekhar Das had been associated with a travelogue program for a TV Channel for nearly three years as presenter, writer and director. This program covered Europe,particularly France and Germany,from Asia, it was Vietnam, Malaysia,Singapore, Australia.
He served on the juries for different international film festivals,was also jury for the national awards in India, and he was selected as one of the selection committee members for nominating Indian film to Oscar.
Graduating from the University of Calcutta in both science and English literature, Sekhar Das, completed his French from Alliance Francais de Calcutta, keeping his masters in English literature incomplete, Das opted for film studies and appreciation in the Chitrabani (Communication centre of St Xaviers college, Calcutta). After receiving outstanding certificates in different streams of cinema, Das took serious interest in the Art of Screenplay writing and acting. He was lucky to learn the art of scripting from the Master screen play writer Jean Claude Carrier.
While working for an insurance company, Sekhar Das somehow lost interest in Cinema and concentrated in Theatre arts. He had the rare opportunity to associate himself with the great Director of International repute like Peter Brook, Jerzy Grotowsky, Richard Secchner, Eugenio Barba, and with the Indian Masters like Habib Tanvir, Badal Sarkar. He produced and directed a dozens of plays some of which are Sophocles’Oedipus,Chekov’s Uncle Vanya, Tagore’s ‘Visarjan’(The sacrifice),Tasher Desh (The land of Cards),Rather Rashi (The rope of the Chariot), Jean-Paul Sartre’s ‘Condemned of Altona’, Arrabal’s 'Picnique in the Battlefield’, Dario Foe’s "Can’t pay,Won’t pay", Athol Fugard’s ‘Road to Mecca’,Arnold Weskar’s trilogy and many other plays. He excelled as an actor too and during those days he had the opportunity to meet great Indian Directors-Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Budhhadeb Dasgupta.
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