BACKGROUND OF THE ACHIEVER

Sushil Mukherjee is a renowned Bengali as well as Odissa filmmaker based in Kolkata.

He was born on March 21, 1937, in the town of Faridpur,Bangladesh. After finishing his primary education there, his father, who was in Police got transferred  to Calcutta. Got admitted to the Modern School in Park Circus. He completed his  secondary education and subsequently graduated from City Collage of Kolkata. During his student days, he got involved with the cultural wing of the Communist party. Though his family had no other connection with film industry before.

 However his interest remained mostly intellectual, but he was forced to take up a job because of the poor family condition.

Eventually he met Manik Roy, a distributor, who introduced him to renowned Director Phoni Ganguly , who was then directing two film simultaneously named “Antorjatik” and “Bastob”.He got linked with both the project.

He started as a full fledged Assistant Director with Satish Dasgupta in “ Lilakonko” .

While working with Satish Babu, he was offered to work in Kanan Devi’s “Srimati Pictures”. In those days, Haridas Bhattacharya, the director himself was assisted by Sachin Mukherjee, Dilip Mukherjee and Tarun Majumdar. Luckily all three left for some unavoidable circumstances and he got the opportunity to show his excellence in the direction department. He started assisting in the projects namely, “Indranath O Srikanto”.This was only the beginning. HE continued working with the production house for next seven years. The films he assisted in those period were, “Sesh Anko”, “Sandhya deeper Shikha”,etc.

He was then called by Bikas Roy to work with him. He was directing “Carry Saheber Munshi”,a periodical master piece. There he got the opportunity to give his inputs in the field independently.

He then worked with Asit Choudhury of “Charuchitram”, who was then working for “Mamta”,hindi remake of “Uttor Falguni”.

Seeing the work of great men,also got the privilege of working with them,he aspired to be a Director one day.