Vinayak Chakravorty

Vinayak Chakravorty (born 25 March ?) is an Indian film critic, columnist and film journalist based in New Delhi.

He currently reviews films and writes a fortnightly column on popular culture named The Pulp Pit in Mail Today, where he is employed as Associate Editor in charge of the Entertainment section. His articles on popular culture and column are also regularly featured on the websites of Daily Mail, UK, and India Today.

Chakravorty made his mark as the film critic of Delhi's leading newspaper, the Hindustan Times, between 2001 and 2006 before he joined his present employer.

As a film expert, Chakravorty is invited as guest speaker on cinema by various television channels. He is also occasionally quoted on subjects related to cinema by magazines including Time Magazine, which has called him a "well-known film critic".

In 2012, 2015 and 2016 he has been a member of the Preview Selection Committee that finalises films for the World Cinema and Panorama sections of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), held every year in Goa, India.

Chakravorty was born in Ranchi, a town formerly in the east Indian state of Bihar and now the capital of the subsequently formed state of Jharkhand. He hails from a middle-class Bengali family, the only child of an engineer father and a school teacher mother.

He studied at St. Xavier's School, Ranchi before graduating from St. Xavier's College, Ranchi with English Honours.

He discovered his passion for journalism in high school, when he was inducted into the board of editors of his school magazine, Endeavour.

After graduation, Chakravorty moved to Kolkata for a few years, where he studied journalism at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, and topped the post-graduate diploma course at the institution.

Chakravorty admits being torn between the options of pursuing higher studies leading to a career in academics and choosing journalism as his calling. One reason is, despite performing well in journalism school, he enrolled in Kolkata's prestigious Jadavpur University for a Masters course in Comparative Literature. However, a month into his MA course, he received an offer from Kolkata's leading English daily, The Telegraph.

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