After graduating from the Presidency College, Kolkata, Sourav Sarangi joined the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune specializing in editing.

His debut film TUSUKATHA received accolades from many leading international film festivals. Since then he has been editing, writing, directing and producing in both fiction and nonfiction genres. He is also popular among student communities in various film schools as an articulate teacher.

He worked as the chief editor in an Indo-Italian co-production in Rome and Naples. Sourav has also extensively worked in private television channels in India as chief programming director. He supported and executed a number of productions on popular entertainment as well as social issue films which are still considered important works in regional television industry.

Sourav has also served as jury in international film festivals.

His recent award winning work is an international co-production documentary titled BILAL. The film is based on observations about a three-year-old kid growing up with blind parents in Kolkata. BILAL traveled over fifty international festivals winning eighteen top awards.

Recently he completed another international co-production CHAR… the No-Man’s Island already winning accolades and awards from around the world. It has been selected also in the prestigious Berlinale 2013 in the Forum section.

To watch his film, made in the borderlands between India and Bangladesh, please click https://vimeo.com/ondemand/char.