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 ...
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.