From IT to Indie cinema

Ananyabrata Chakravorty on his debut movie, making career transition, and plans ahead

- Bindu Gopal Rao

A film that sees Rajit Kapoor back as a Bengali detective after his iconic role in Byomkesh Bakshi and the comeback of Nadiya Ke Paar actor Sadhana Singh, Kaisi Ye Paheli is a nod to women and mothers, in particular.

A filmmaker from Assam, now based in Mumbai, Ananyabrata Chakravorty has studied engineering and MBA and worked in the IT sector for six years before starting a career in the film industry in 2016. Interestingly, before this, he made two short films—90 to Win and Naukri, wrote lyrics for a Ricky Martin song, authored the novel Split Second, and played a freedom fighter in The Waking of a Nation by Ram Madhvani. While he was always interested in films, he admits that he cannot really tell at what point he realised that I wanted to make one. “Maybe it was gradual and didn’t happen one fine day or because of one film in particular,” he says.