Logo
Documentary
Home > Documentary

Ashoke Viswanathan (1959-present)

Ashoke Viswanathan
(1959-present)

Ashoke Viswanathan

Ashoke Viswanathan is a national and international award winning filmmaker who is currently professor at Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata. The former Dean of the institute is a post graduate in Film Direction from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Subsequently, he completed a certificate course in video production from the same institute in 1986. Since then, he has directed more than 150 film projects including feature films (Sunya Theke Suru, Kichu Sanglap Kichu Pralap, etc), documentaries, shorts and television shows.Apart from the National Awards, he has had six Indian Panorama entries at the International Film Festival ...

Deep Focus

    • The Fishermen of West Bengal (Paschim Banglar Jele)
    This was a two-part serial commissioned by the Doordarshan Kendra. The duration of the two parts of the serials was 28 and 26 minutes respectively. Bhaskar Banerjee had ...

Filmography
    • The Fishermen of West Bengal (1988) 
    • Shades of Society (1989) 
    • Rhyme and Rhythm (1988)
    • The Paper Story (1989)
    • Teaching Shakespeare in Text and Performance (1990) 
    • Byron! Byron! Byron! (1992)
    • Raagsangeet (1994)
    • Theatre Through the Ages (1995)
    • Walls (2003)
    • The Ahom Saga (2003)
    • Sculpting in Time (2004)
    • Manasamangal (2005)
    • Folk Theatre of Bengal (2006)
    • Bangla Writing System (2006)
    • Editing (2006)
    • Are They Potted Plants? (2006)
    • Murmurs of Silence (2008)
    • The Vishnupur Gharana (2008)
    • Masan - Canvas Painting and Cork Dolls (2012) 
    • The Lighthouse, the Ocean and the Sea (2013) 
    • Shadows of Ambiguity (2020)
    • Badal Sircar and the Alternative Theatre (2021)
Awards
    • The Paper Story won the second Best Corporate documentary adjudged by Public Relations Society of India in 1989.
    • Raagsangeet won the Best Audiography award at the UGC-CEC National video competition in 1994.
    • Editing won the Best Subject Expert award at the UGC-CEC National video competition in 2006.
Did You Know?

Over four decades, Ashoke has been an active theatre worker with performances and drama direction in more than 40 plays (including IS Johar's Bhutto) in Bengali, English and Hindi. He has also acted in nearly 30 films besides television and OTT productions in English, Bengali, Malayalam and Hindi languages.

Photo Gallery