Biography

Mainak Misra is an Indian film director, film producer, screenwriter, and film researcher. His first film is Days of Marigolds. He was born on 5th May 1987 in a remote village Shitla in the Bankura district of West Bengal. His father, Banshidhar Misra, is a retired teacher, and his mother, kalyani Misra, is a house-wife. Mainak developed a very deep passion for arts since class IV and performed recitations and delivered speeches all throughout his school days. His life decisions were completely changed when he read a wall-newspaper report about great Iranian Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami on 24th Nov 2007 in Jadavpur, Kolkata. He made a human-documentary The Virtue of A Shadow on the lives of AIDS infected orphans. The documentary was made to increase public awareness of AIDS and was screened on 1st Dec 2012 on the occasion of World AIDS Day in Hyderabad. Mainak Misra is also a self-professed film researcher on world cinema and has studied the works of over 100 directors from more than 50 countries. He secured state rank 69 at 10th standard board examination in the state of West Bengal in 2002. He is an MBA Grad from ICFAI Hyderabad and currently employed with a multi-national IT company in Hyderabad. Currently he lives in Hyderabad with his wife Manisha Chatterjee.