Konarak Mukherjee

Biography:

Konarak Mukherjee was born in 1987 to parents who worked for the government. His mother, a librarian, exposed him to literary fiction at a young age. His passion for narrative developed early on, but it wasn’t until Anthony Minghella’s “The English Patient” profoundly affected him that he decided to pursue a career in filmmaking. after earning an honors bachelor’s degree in economics. After graduating from Presidency College, he began working as a freelance television editor and director of documentaries and short stories. In his homeland of Kolkata, he also had the chance to organize multiple documentary festivals and work with renowned documentary filmmaker Soumitra Dastidar. He joined in Roopkala Kendro, a Film and Social Communication Institute under the Department of Information and Cultural Affairs, Government of West Bengal, in 2011 to learn the profession in greater detail. He finished his diploma program in 2017 after studying screenwriting and directing. In 2018, he directed his debut feature film, “Abraham.”