Aditya Bhattacharya

Aditya Bhattacharya is an independent writer/director/producer based in Mumbai and Barcelona. Bhattacharya's award winning films have played internationally including at: The Rotterdam Film Festival, SXSW, The Cairo Int'l Film Festival, Seattle and Goa Film Festivals. He has been an actor, renowned chef of Indian cuisine in Rome, Italy and a prolific photojournalist. His directorial debut RAAKH was Indian superstar, Aamir Khan's (THREE IDIOTS, LAGAAN) first starring role and the first Hindi feature for acclaimed cinematographer Santosh Sivan (BEFORE THE RAINS) and for India's top Editor, Sreekar Prasad. SENSO UNICO, his sophomore feature, is the only Italian film ever made by an Indian. Following that Aditya made DUBAI RETURN, the first Indian film to star Irrfan Khan, (THE LUNCHBOX). Aditya was the first Chief Creative Officer of the Los Angeles and Mumbai based, TULSEA Pictures. Aditya is a founding member of the Indian Independent Filmmakers (since 2007,with more than 200 filmmaker, writer, actor and producer members.) He has served on the Entertainment Committee of the 115 year old Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) and twice on the script committee of the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC). He has been an advisor to the Italian Culture Ministry and on the Juries of the Arcipelago Festival in Rome and on the 50th anniversary Indian Documentary Producer's Association (IDPA) awards. He has earlier been Head of International Business for Ram Gopal Varma's Varma Corp. and an International Business consultant for both Anubhav Sinha's Seven Entertainment and for Mid-day Multimedia Ltd. where he helped shape Anuraag Kashyap's BLACK FRIDAY for that Company. He earlier was a company director in Rossellini & Associates, which brought LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL and subsequently two other Miramax classics CHOCOLAT and A HARD DAY'S NIGHT to India. Called "one of Bollywood's brightest directorial stars" by Screen International Magazine, Aditya has recently completed his fourth feature, BMW (Bombay's Most Wanted,) lensed by the legendary Lisa Rinzler (Menace II Society, Pollock) and is in pre-production on MUMBAI CONFIDENTIAL based on the acclaimed and eponymous American graphic novel from Archaia Ent. In 2018-2019, Aditya was a Creative Advisor to CULTURE MACHINE India, helping the company transition to Long Form content and Feature (from their current strength: Short Form content.) In 2019, Culture Machine became part of the Rainshine Entertainment Group. In 2020 Aditya was a Writer and Producer for the PBS Political Documentary 'Battleground' He is the grandson of Bimal Roy (DEVDAS, MADHUMATI), one of the pioneers of Indian cinema, and the son of Basu Bhattacharya (TEESRI KASAM, ANUBHAV) a noted independent filmmaker.