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Abhro Banerjee (1978-Present)

Abhro Banerjee
(1978-Present)

Abhro Banerjee

Abhro Banerjee, a 2017 Berlinale Talent and the winner of other multiple awards for editing feature-length fiction, non-fiction, and numerous ad films, is recognized for a body of work that is distinguished by an unusually wide range of styles and approaches across a varied array of film forms, languages, and genres. The National Award-winner is equally invested and at home with the craft of editing an absolutely esoteric, experimental personal essay film, the dramaturgy of a hard-hitting film emerging from a social-political landscape of activism and even the glitz and gloss of a stylish short selling a bottle of beer. This fervent “submission to variety” in ...

Deep Focus

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Filmography
    • Nero's Guests (2009)
    • Quarter No. 4/11 (2011)
    • Do Rafique (2012)
    • Presence (2012)
    • Ebong Bewarish/ And the Unclaimed (2013)
    • Our Metropolis (2014)
    • Distance (2014)
    • Power Girls (2015)
    • Fireflies in the Abyss (2015)
    • Beyond Barbed Wires: A Distant Dawn (2015)
    • Limitless (2017)
    • What Man, Joe (2018)
    • Birha/ Absence (2018)
    • The Cloud Never Left (2018)
    • Good Guy Bad Guy (2018)
    • Tin Satyi... (2018)
    • From Durban to Tomorrow (2020)
    • Gay India Matrimony (2020)
    • Kunde (2021)
    • Taangh (2022)
    • Charaiveti (2022)
    • If Memory Serves Me Right (2023)
Awards
    • In 2023, Abhro won the Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) for Best Editing in the non-feature film segment at the 69th National Awards. He was recognized for “establishing a fractured temporal universe that captures nonlinearity of fading memories narrated by the character” in If Memory Serves Me Right.
Did You Know?

Abhro has forever been smitten by the creative bug and has tried to explore different forms of art. He is a self-taught guitarist and strumming is his favourite pastime when he is otherwise not busy with work.