Amartya Bhattacharyya

Amartya Bhattacharyya is a filmmaker, writer and artist from eastern India. He was awarded the Silver Lotus for the Best Cinematography in non-feature film at the 63rd National Film Awards by the president of India for his fantasy documentary 'Benaras-the unexplored attachments'. His second feature film 'Khyanikaa - The Lost Idea' featured as the only Odia film in the Indian Panorama section of 48th International Film Festival of India 2017. He was awarded the State film awards in Best Editing category for Khyanikaa - The Lost Idea at the 29th Odisha State Film Awards, conferred by the Government of Odisha. Amartya's feature film is Adieu Godard, which premiered at the 43rd Moscow International Film Festival 2021 released in Indian theaters in September 2022, and coincidentally coincided with the sudden demise of the French auteur Jean-Luc Godard. The film is in Odia language and is an Indo-French co-production. He is an independent film director, a surreal poet, writer, actor, editor, lyricist and a cinematographer. Amartya's artworks are mostly surreal, dark in concept, and psychoanalytic in nature. He himself tags his films as 'Psychodrama'. From Wikipedia (