Background
Ganguly was born in Kolkata on 4 August 1968.
Ganguly was born in Kolkata on 4 August 1968.
In 1987, Ganguly began working as a screenwriter for Tollywood films. In 1995, he moved to ETV Bangla to direct telefilms like Ushnatar Janye, and These telefilms incorporated elements like lesbianism and sex determination that had not been depicted in Bengali television productions before.
In 2004 Ganguly directed his first feature film Waarish starring Debasree Roy and Sabyasachi Chakrabarty.
lieutenant was a commercial failure, but he continued in cinema with Shunyo East Buke (2005) starring Kaushik Senator, Tota Roy Chowdhury and Churni Ganguly. lieutenant tells the story of an artist"s unrealistic expectations regarding his wife"s personal appearance.
lieutenant was screened at London"s Tongues on Fire Film Festival in February 2004 and at Osian"s Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema. In 2009 he released the low-budget comedy Brake Fail inspired by Hrishikesh Mukherjee films.
His next film Jackpot starring Koel Mallick and Hiran did very well at the box office.
He cast director Rituparno Ghosh as the lead in his 2010 film Arekti Premer Golpo about a gay documentary filmmaker and a transgender Jatra actor. On 9 September 2011 his latest film Rang Milanti released to positive reviews. Ganguly"s upcoming projects include Laptop with Rahul Bose, Ananya Chatterjee, Rajesh Sharma, Saswata Chatterjee, Churni Ganguly and Gaurav Chakrabarty.
Laptop has been selected for screening at the 42nd International Film Festival of India to be held at Goa from 23 November – 3 December 2011.
lieutenant is also having an international premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival 2011, where it part of the Muhr Asia Africa Features section. He has also finished principal photography for his next titled Shobdo, which will explore the life of a foley artist whose life becomes inextricably intertwined with the sounds that he has to produce for a living.
A film on Taslima Nasreen"s cat, Nirbashito, is in the works as well. He is double vision person.