Dibakar Banerjee

Dibakar Banerjee
Banerjee at the screening of Gangs of Wasseypur in 2012
Born (1969-06-21) 21 June 1969 (age 55)
New Delhi, India
Alma materNational Institute of Design
Occupations
  • Filmmaker
  • screenwriter
  • lyricist
  • musician
Years active2006–present

Dibakar Banerjee (born 21 June 1969) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, producer and advertisement-filmmaker known for his work in Hindi films. Banerjee started his career in advertising, being a feature filmmaker, he still continues to be an ad-filmmaker.[1] He also runs his own film production company, Dibakar Banerjee Productions.[2]

As a film maker, he is known for Khosla Ka Ghosla (2006), Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008), both of which won National Film Awards.[3][4] His next film was the experimental Love Sex Aur Dhokha (2010). It was followed by the political drama Shanghai (2012) and Bombay Talkies (2013), which was made as a celebration of the centenary year of Indian cinema. In 2015, he directed Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!, a film based on the fictional character Byomkesh Bakshi.

  1. ^ "Imran Khan makes debut in Coke ad". Mid-Day. 11 February 2010. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  2. ^ Jai Arjun Singh (1 January 2013). "Jump Cut". The Caravan. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  3. ^ "The first rush". The Telegraph (Kolkata). Calcutta, India. 14 October 2006. Archived from the original on 1 August 2008.
  4. ^ Mukherjee, Aparajita (25 January 2010). "Dibakar gets lucky with Oye Lucky..." The Times of India.