Arin Paul

Arin Paul অরীন পাল
Arin Paul in 2008
Born	20 April 1980 (1980-04-20) (age 31) Belur West Bengal
Occupation	Film director
Years active	2002 - present
Spouse	Ananya Paul (2006 – present)

Arin Paul (Bengali: অরীন পাল)^[1][2] (born 20 April 1980) is a Bengali film director, writer ^[3][4] and researcher on film history.^[5]

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Influence 4 Works 4.1 Director 4.1.1 Feature films 4.1.2 Short films 4.1.3 Television 4.1.4 Documentaries 4.2 Producer 4.3 Actor 4.4 Writer 4.5 Other work 5 Awards 6 References 7 External links

Early life

Paul was born in Belur, West Bengal and raised in Shillong, Meghalaya and Calcutta. He attended St. Edmund's School, Shillong, Andrews High School, the Scottish Church Collegiate School, and Shyamaprasad College, an undergraduate evening college of the University of Calcutta. He also graduated from the Asian Academy of Film & Television ^[6] in 2002.

Career

Paul began as an assistant director in 2003. In 2008, he made his film debut with a feature titled 10:10 starring National Film Awards winner Soumitra Chatterjee and German model Claudia Ciesla.

Influence

Paul is heavily influenced by Ritwik Ghatak and Guru Dutt.^[7]

Works

Director

Feature films

• 10:10 ^[8] - Released 28 November 2008
• Sabdhan Pancha Aashche ^[9] - Unreleased

Short films

• …and there wasn’t everafter… [Screened at the Himachal Film Festival, 2011 (13 May 2011)]^[10]
• Terrorist
• Just Like That ^[11]

Television

• Aajke - A daily show for Kolkata TV (on air from 9 August 2010 – 8 August 2011, 365 Episodes)
• Coffee & More - A film magazine show for Zee Bangla (on air from 9 March to 16 August 2009, 71 Episodes)

Documentaries

• Nripen Ganguly (2011)^[12]
• Jyanto Durga (Durga Live) (2010)

Producer

• Nripen Ganguly (2011)^[13]
• Aajke for television (2010–2011)
• Terrorist short film (2010)
• …and there wasn’t everafter… short film (2008)

Actor

• Short Film Terrorist (2010)
• Tele-film “XXXTRA”.
• Bengali Feature Film “NO POBLEM – A Kolkata Komedy” - Guest Appearance.
• Tele-film “Nayikar Sange Ekdin”.
• Tele-film “Mom Range Samudra”.
• Tele-film “Uttarer Ghar”.
• Tele-film “Nemesis”.
• Short Film “Graffiti”.
• Student Short Film “Ek Diney”.
• Tele-film “Gooooal”.
• Tele-film “Shudhu Tomari Jonno”.

Writer

• Short Films A^[14] and 60 ML^[15] (concept, story and script).
• Bengali Feature Film “10:10” (concept and story].
• Short Film “…and there wasn’t everafter…” (concept, story and script).

Other work

• Arin Paul was also the Project Co-ordinator for a UNDP project in association with BNP+ which involved teaching & training ten HIV+ people how to video-shoot a project.
• Many Ad-Films including those for Kolkata Traffic Police, Hotel Mount View (Gangtok), Unix Bottled Water ^[16] and Others.

Awards

• 'Rotary Youth Achiever of The Year (2008–09)' ^[17] by Rotary International (District 3291).

References

External links

• Arin Paul at the Internet Movie Database
• filmwebsite
• screenindia.com

Persondata
Name	Paul, Arin
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Date of birth	1980-04-20
Place of birth	Belur West Bengal
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