Dipankar Dipon

Dipankar Sengupta Dipon (born 22 May 1976) is a Bangladeshi film director and screenwriter who works in Dhallywood. His first feature film was the cop thriller Dhaka Attack, which won four National Film Awards in 2017 including Best Film, Best Actor, Best Sound, and Best Make-up. His film Operation Sundarbans received 3 national film awards in 2022 in the Comedy, Best Make-up Man, and Male Singer categories. Since 1998, he has made one feature film, one web content, 30 TV movies and telefilms, 25 TV serials, 40 short TV video fictions, 48 live-action films for sesame street Bangladesh, 2 short films, and 12 documentaries.

Early life Dipon as Dipankar Sen Gupta was born in 1976 in Rangpur, Bangladesh. His father is Sunil Sen Gupta, and his mother is Ranjeeta Sen Gupta. He started off his television career with Shwapnoghuri in 2002, while he was studying at the Dramatics Department of Jahangirnagar University. After making tele-fictions for nearly ten years, Dipon worked with renowned Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap in Mumbai for two years, starting in 2012.

Education HSC & SSC Carmichael College, Rangpur; Government Science College, Dhaka; Setabganj Pilot High School, Setabganj, Dinajpur B.A. in drama and dramatics from Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2000) M.A. in drama and dramatics from Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2002)

Career

Dipon started his career in 1998. His first feature film, Dhaka Attack (the first police action thriller movie in Bangladesh), released in 2017 and broke the record of 21 years of business of non-festival movies in Bangladesh. He worked with AKFPL (Anurag Kashyap Film Production Limited) in Mumbai from 2012 to 2014. He was a senior scriptwriter at Phantom Films in Mumbai from 2012 to 2014. He was the live-action director at Sesame Workshop under Asiatic since 2008–2012. As a creative director, he made many different kinds of socio-economic and factual documentaries for many leading organizations, i.e. UNICEF, UNFPA, UNHCR, PLAN, Marie Stopes – Bangladesh, etc.

Writer and director Dipon was the director of a child drama named Gupi Gyen Bagha Byen in Sonali Nattya Ghosthi, Setabganj, Dinajpur, which has been staged at the International Theater Festival in Katak, Orissa, India, in November 2003. He was the writer and director of a short stage drama named Nichak Galpa Noi in Rangpur Padatik in December 2002, which has been staged in Rangpur. He directed a child drama named Prajanma Agami in Sonali Nattya Ghosthi, Setabganj, Dinajpur which has been staged in the National child drama festival in the Public Library, Dhaka in June 2002. He was the writer and director of a child drama based on child rights named Ora Hotel Sramik in Sonali Nattya Ghosthi, Setabganj, Dinajpur in May 2000, which has been staged 6 times in Setabganj and Dinajpur. He was an actor of many dramas such as Banapangshul, Oedipus, Korotir Kathakata, Sakuntala, Biday Avishap, Shesher Kabita, A Doll's House, Mrichakatikam, Sri Krisna Kirtan, Kando Nadi Kando in Jahangirnagar University Inter Hall Drama Festival & Academic Production of Dept. of Drama & Dramatics, Jahangirnagar University.

Filmography

Film Denotes films that have not yet been released Writer

Web YearMovieActorProduction house/OTT2019LilithSiam Ahmed Masuma Rahman Nabila

Television TV Series TV Short Film Short Film Docudrama Documentaries TITLE DURATION PROJECT AREA CLIENT AGENCYA Documentary on 'WISH 2 Action' (2020)23 MinDhaka, Mymensingh, Khaliajuri, B'BariaMarie Stopes BangladeshThree Wheelers ltdA documentary on 'Urban Health-Strengthening care for poor Mothers and New-Born of Bangladesh' project (2018)17 MinDhaka, keraniganj, Gazipur, NarshindiMarie Stopes BangladeshThree Wheelers ltdLet's be prepared!, Docu-drama on disaster preparedness under a project of European commission and Islamic relief Bangladesh. ( 2010)18 MinBrahmanbaria, RangpurEuropean commission

in Association with Islamic ReliefThree Wheelers ltdTowards a new life, Documentary on Roihingya refugees in Teknaf under a project of European commission and Islamic relief Bangladesh. ( 2010)12 MinTeknafUNHCR

in AssociationBITOPIDocumentary on Risk Reduction (2006)15 MinTahirpur, Sunamganj, TangailUNFPABITOPIEid of street children (2005)20 MinDhakaPlan BangladeshUNLDocumentary on

Child Forum & Child election ( 2006)10 MinTangailSave the childrenThree Wheelers LtdDocumentary on

Child Forum & Child election (2005)12 MinTangailSave the childrenThree Wheelers LtdDocumentary making workshop for Rural Child of Tangail (2005) TangailSave the childrenThree Wheelers LtdDocumentary & Drama

on Tree Plantation & Sanitation (2004)4 Episode, 22 Min EachRangpur & GazipurPLAN BangladeshUNL

Awards and honors

In 2007, Dipon participated Talent campus with his short film in International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany, and also he had an exclusive project in the Berlinale Talent Project market as an only Bangladeshi Film Maker. For his film "Dhaka Attack" he won the award for best film for National Film Awards 2017 by Information Ministry of Bangladesh. December 2018: ATN Best film director for Movie Dhaka Attack. February 2013: RTV-Diamond world star award for Best Director (TV serial category) for TV serial COLLEGE ROAD. April 2009: Charuniram TV drama award for Best Drama for the TV Drama GOLDEN RATIO May 2008: Peoples theatre association award for Best Director of the year for the stage Drama (Gupi gyen Bagha Byen)

Berlinale film project Dipankar Dipon participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2006 with his short film Children on a Rainy Day. That same year, his project Janani was selected for the Talent Project Market, a section of the Berlinale Co-Production Market, where it was one of 17 projects chosen from 227 entries. Janani was a futuristic film addressing overpopulation in Dhaka.

National Film Awards of Bangladesh Bengali Cinema Dhaka Attack directed by Dipankar Dipon won four national awards in 2017 including Best Film, Best Actor, Best Makeup, and Best Sound. His film Operation Sundarbans got 3 national film awards in 2022 in Comedy, Khokon Mollah in the Best Make-up Man category, and Male Singer category.