Indranil Roychowdhury

Indranil Roychowdhury (born 1971) is an Indian television and film director.

He has produced and directed over hundred TV commercials and corporate documentaries. He has also produced and directed four telefilms namely Album, Ihokal, Patro Patri and Jogote Anandojogye. A student of Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, Indranil has also directed several reality shows, music videos and game shows for Bangla TV Channels. In 2006 he directed a short fiction film, Tapan Babu. Tapan Babu was a part of a package of six short films directed by six directors that was released as a full length feature film called ‘Ek Mutho Chhobi’. Recently Tapan Babu was officially remade in Malayalam under the title Diamond Necklace.

He is now busy with his maiden full length feature film Phoring which is all set to release very soon. The film follows an adolescent boy (Phoring) growing up in a back-of-beyond township in North Bengal. Surrounded by the lush Dooars countryside the town barely survives the shutdown of a factory and its jobless population. Maladjusted and a born loser, Phoring fights the voices in his head he calls God. And then a new teacher (Doel) arrives in school. Doel opens up his mind to things unknown and just when Phoring starts believing that this is not a dream, Doel disappears abruptly leaving behind a trail of doubt and suspicion. Phoring decides to go looking for her in Kolkata.

He won the Prasad Award for Best Work-in-Progress – Film Bazaar