Shoojit Sircar

Directing

Shoojit Sircar

Place of birth

Kolkata, India

Known for

Directing

Credits

23 titles

Shoojit Sircar is an Indian film director and producer. He won the National Film Award for Vicky Donor in Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment category, shared with John Abraham. He also won the Indian Competition Special Jury Award at Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema in 2005 for Yahaan. He has made television commercials for Saffola, 2G, Apsara Pencils, Fair & Lovely, Maruti WagonR, Cadbury, Dove and many other brands.

Known for

Series credits

Behind the camera

Sardar Udham poster
7.2

A young Sardar Udham Singh left deeply scarred by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, escaped into the mountains of Afghanistan, reaching London in 1933-34. Carrying an unhealed wound for 21 years, the revolutionary assassinated Michael O’Dwyer on 13th March, 1940, the man at the helm of affairs in Punjab, April 1919 to avenge the lost lives of his beloved brethren.

Sardar Udham

2021

Piku poster
7.2

A taxi driver is caught between a dysfunctional relationship between a woman and her father as he drives them to Kolkata.

Piku

2015

Pink poster
7.4

After being molested, Minal and her friends try to file an FIR against a politician's nephew. When the subsequent case gets rigged, a retired lawyer helps them to fight the case.

Pink

2016

October poster
7.0

Dan, a 21-year-old carefree boy is always surrounded by a bunch of friends and fellow hotel interns who feed off each other's everyday moments, their ups and downs. Shiuli is also an intern working in the same hotel, who at times is at a receiving end of Dan's audaciousness. Everything was normal in their life until a sudden turn of events smashes Dan and Shiuli's lives together, into a bond.

October

2018

October poster
7.0

Dan, a 21-year-old carefree boy is always surrounded by a bunch of friends and fellow hotel interns who feed off each other's everyday moments, their ups and downs. Shiuli is also an intern working in the same hotel, who at times is at a receiving end of Dan's audaciousness. Everything was normal in their life until a sudden turn of events smashes Dan and Shiuli's lives together, into a bond.

October

2018

Madras Cafe poster
6.7

An Indian intelligence agent journeys to a war-torn coastal island to break a resolute rebel group and meets a passionate journalist.

Madras Cafe

2013

I Want to Talk poster
7.0

'Sometimes life gives us a second chance,' and for Arjun settled in the USA in pursuit of The American Dream, it's an opportunity to rediscover and embrace precious relationships, especially with his daughter as they both try to navigate through whatever life throws at them. Whatever!

I Want to Talk

2024

No artwork available
NR

Shoojit Sircar's next directorial mythological comedy project.

Shoojit Sircar Mythological Comedy Project

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Vicky Donor poster
6.8

A man is brought in by an infertility doctor to supply him with his sperm, where he becomes the biggest sperm donor for his clinic.

Vicky Donor

2012

Yahaan poster
5.4

In the disputed territory of Kashmir, a young Muslim woman meets and falls in love with a Hindu man.

Yahaan

2005

Yahaan poster
5.4

In the disputed territory of Kashmir, a young Muslim woman meets and falls in love with a Hindu man.

Yahaan

2005

Yahaan poster
5.4

In the disputed territory of Kashmir, a young Muslim woman meets and falls in love with a Hindu man.

Yahaan

2005

Gulabo Sitabo poster
5.9

Set in present-day Lucknow, Gulabo Sitabo is a social satire about two impossibly peculiar human beings, Mirza Chunnan Nawab, who stays in a dilapidated mansion and one of the tenants, Bankey Rastogi.

Gulabo Sitabo

2020

The Umesh Chronicles poster
NR

Radha, a 12-year-old girl growing up in a privileged, middle class home in the 1980s, is surrounded by family, books, and music. She has limited contact with Sundar, a boy who works for her family but whose presence opens her eyes.

The Umesh Chronicles

2024

Open Tee Bioscope poster
7.3

A rusticated boy in his adolescence comes to stay with his mother in North Kolkata and encounters some new experiences during his stay. The time-line of the story is in the 90's typical Northern part of Kolkata.

Open Tee Bioscope

2015

Woh Bhi Din The poster
4.0

Rahul Sinha, a famous photojournalist, returns to his alma mater as a guest speaker and takes a nostalgic trip down memory lane to relive his carefree school days and the moment he first fell in love.

Woh Bhi Din The

2024

Running Shaadi poster
6.1

Two friends, Ram Bharose and tech genius Cyberjeet, create a website that helps lovers to elope. The site is an instant hit; young couples line up for the opportunity to escape strict families and run away with the ones they love.

Running Shaadi

2017

Ek Jaadugar poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ek Jaadugar

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No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Untitled Shoojit Sircar Project

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Deep6 poster
NR

An extraordinary story of an ordinary woman Mitul, who strives to change things which appear fossilized.

Deep6

2026