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Sekhar Das is a Bengali Movie director, scriptwriter. Sekhar Das with four award winning feature films to his credit is one of the leading filmmakers of Bengal. ‘E S P’’s his 5th venture. Resigning from a highly successful corporate career in 1997, Sekhar started his professional career in films and television, although he earned highest reputation as an actor par excellence but preferred writing scripts in the initial stage of his career, one of which, namely, Prohor won the national and International awards. Soon he took up direction in TV and films. Directed many mystery thrillers for a leading TV channel, possibly he is the only director internationally known to have adapted great Russian Playwright Anton Chekov’s all four classics in Bengali for TV film .A globe trotter that he has been, Sekhar Das had been associated with a travelogue program for a TV Channel for nearly three years as presenter, writer and director. This program covered Europe,particularly France and Germany,from Asia, it was Vietnam, Malaysia,Singapore, Australia. Sekhar has completed four feature films. He served on the juries for the Brisbane International film festival and also the national awards in India, he was selected as one of the selection committee members for nominating Indian film to Oscar.
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