Mainak Bhaumik

Mainak Bhaumik is an Indian Bengali film director, documentary filmmaker and editor. He made his directorial debut with the 2006 Bengali film Aamra. His next directorial was Bedroom. He has directed multiple critically successful movies including Maach Mishti & More, Bibaho Diaries, Generation Ami, Cheeni and Ekannoborti. He made his directorial debut in OTT with the Hoichoi series Break Up Story. Bhaumik has also directed few web series and short films in Bengali.

Education A student of Economics and Computer Science, Bhaumik graduated with a double major from City University in New York. Then, he enrolled in Columbia University for the M.A. program in Literature. He did a course on film production from the New York Film Academy and learned about film and video editing from New School University. He took screenwriting workshops with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Mamet, while staying in New York.

Career Bhaumik started his career in 1998 by directing a short film His Life - Her Story, which won the Best Short Film award at "Florida Film Festival" (1998). In 2006 he directed his first Bengali film Aamra His next film Bedroom (2012) is a dark ensemble film that deals with the new generation of young Indians who struggle with depression, failure and identity crisis in a Facebook savvy world that is obsessed with picture perfect lives. In 2013, Bhaumik released the feature film Maach Mishti & More which he refers to as his love-letter to his city of Kolkata. Released in the same year, Ami Aar Amar Girlfriends is a coming-of-age movie about the lives of three Indian girls who cling to their friendship in times of trouble. In 2014, his next film Take One, is about a modern Indian woman, an actress who plays the Hindu mythological character Sita, and is judged harshly by Indian society because of her sexual indiscretions. But unlike Sita, who was forced by society into exile, the actress rejects hypocritical society's unfair judgment of her and withdraws voluntarily into her private exile.

His documentary films on endangered Indian ethnic folk art forms and culture have been internationally distributed by the Documentary Educational Resources in Boston, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution. These films have been screened in numerous international film festivals across the globe, and have also been picked up by German Films Italia, Rome, for the Italian TV rights. He won the Art Award in 2005 for his documentary film Gone to Pat, at the Society for Visual Anthropology, American Anthropological Association. Since then, his feature films have also earned critical acclaim and commercial success.

Filmography As a director Feature films

Year Title 2006 Aamra 2012 Bedroom 2013 Maach Mishti & More 2013 Ami Aar Amar Girlfriends 2014 Take One 2014 Kolkata Calling 2015 Family Album 2017 Bibaho Diaries 2017 Chawlochhitro Circus 2018 Ghare & Baire 2018 Happy Pill 2018 Aami vs Tumi 2018 Generation Ami 2019 Bornoporichoy 2019 Goyenda Junior 2020 Cheeni 2021 Ekannoborti 2022 Mini 2023 Cheeni 2 2025 Bhaggyolokkhi 2025 Grihosto 2025 Batshorik 2026 Made in kolkata

Web Series Year Title — Break Up Story — Maradonar Juto

Short film / Documentary Year Title — His Life - Her Story — Gone to Pat — Surviving Chau — Melting Wok

As an editor Year Title 2006 The Bong Connection 2008 Chalo Let's Go 2010 Arekti Premer Golpo 2012 Shabdo