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{{Short description|Indian Bengali filmmaker and editor}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=November 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Mainak Bhaumik
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| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
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| years_active = 1998–present
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| occupation = {{hlist|Film director|Documentary filmmaker|Editor}}
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'''Mainak Bhaumik''' is an Indian [[Bengali language|Bengali]] film director, documentary filmmaker and editor. He made his directorial debut with the 2006 Bengali film ''[[Aamra]]''. His next directorial was ''[[Bedroom]]'' (2012). He has directed multiple critically successful movies including ''[[Maach Mishti & More]]'', ''[[Bibaho Diaries]]'', ''[[Generation Ami]]'', ''Cheeni'' and ''[[Ekannoborti]]''. He made his directorial debut in OTT with the [[Hoichoi]] series ''Break Up Story''. Bhaumik has also directed few web series and short films in Bengali.<ref name="Mainak Bhaumik's next film on girlfriends">{{cite news |title=Mainak Bhaumik's next film on girlfriends |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/regional/bengali/news-interviews/Mainak-Bhaumiks-next-film-on-girlfriends/articleshow/13684184.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623010550/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-31/news-interviews/31919981_1_film-girlfriends-director-mainak-bhaumik |url-status=live |archive-date=23 June 2012 |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=28 December 2012}}</ref>

== Education ==
A student of Economics and Computer Science, Bhaumik graduated with a double major from City University in New York. Then, he enrolled in Columbia University for the M.A. program in Literature.<ref>[http://www.der.org/films/filmmakers/mainak-bhaumik.html Mainak Bhaumik featured as a DER filmmaker on Documentary Educational Resources website]</ref> He did a course on film production from the [[New York Film Academy]] and learned about film and video editing from New School University. He took screenwriting workshops with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Mamet, while staying in New York.<ref>[http://der.org/films/surviving-chau.html Film Festivals, Screenings and Awards for Mainak Bhaumik's documentary film Surviving Chau as listed on Documentary Educational Resources website]</ref>

== Career ==
Bhaumik started his career in 1998 by directing a short film ''His Life - Her Story'', which won the Best Short Film award at "Florida Film Festival" (1998).<ref name="Mainak, new genre director of middle cinema">{{cite web|title=Mainak, new genre director of middle cinema|url=https://www.oneindia.com/2007/07/03/mainak-new-genre-director-of-middle-cinema-1183453776.html|publisher=One India|access-date=28 December 2012}}</ref> In 2006 he directed his first Bengali film ''[[Aamra]]'' His next film ''[[Bedroom (film)|Bedroom]]'' (2012) is a dark ensemble film that deals with the new generation of young Indians who struggle with depression, failure and identity crisis in a Facebook savvy world that is obsessed with picture perfect lives. In 2013, Bhaumik released the feature film ''[[Maach Mishti & More]]'' which he refers to as his love-letter to his city of [[Kolkata]]. Released in the same year, ''[[Ami Aar Amar Girlfriends]]'' is a coming-of-age movie about the lives of three Indian girls who cling to their friendship in times of trouble. In 2014, his next film ''Take One'', is about a modern Indian woman, an actress who plays the Hindu mythological character Sita, and is judged harshly by Indian society because of her sexual indiscretions. But unlike Sita, who was forced by society into exile, the actress rejects hypocritical society's unfair judgment of her and withdraws voluntarily into her private exile.<ref>[https://archive.today/20141018062100/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140316/jsp/graphiti/18084516.jsp "Breaking New Ground" Graphiti article on Mainak Bhaumik, "The Telegraph", 16 March 2014]</ref>

His documentary films on endangered Indian ethnic folk art forms and culture have been internationally distributed by the Documentary Educational Resources in Boston, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution.<ref>[http://www.der.org/films/filmmakers/mainak-bhaumik.html Mainak Bhaumik featured as a DER filmmaker on Documentary Educational Resources website]</ref> These films have been screened in numerous international film festivals across the globe, and have also been picked up by German Films Italia, Rome, for the Italian TV rights.<ref>[http://der.org/films/gone-to-pat.html Film Festivals, Screenings and Awards for Mainak Bhaumik's documentary film Gone to Pat as listed on Documentary Educational Resources website]</ref> He won the Art Award in 2005 for his documentary film ''Gone to Pat'', at the Society for Visual Anthropology, American Anthropological Association. Since then, his feature films have also earned critical acclaim and commercial success.<ref>[https://archive.today/20141018062100/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140316/jsp/graphiti/18084516.jsp "Breaking New Ground" Graphiti article on Mainak Bhaumik, "The Telegraph", 16 March 2014]</ref>

== Filmography ==
=== As a director ===
==== Feature films ====

{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Year !! Title
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| 2006 || ''[[Aamra]]''
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| 2012 || ''[[Bedroom (film)|Bedroom]]''
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| 2013 || ''[[Maach Mishti & More]]''
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| 2013 || ''[[Ami Aar Amar Girlfriends]]''
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| 2014 || ''Take One''
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| 2014 || ''Kolkata Calling''
|-
| 2015 || ''Family Album''
|-
| 2017 || ''[[Bibaho Diaries]]''
|-
| 2017 || ''Chawlochhitro Circus''
|-
| 2018 || ''[[Ghare & Baire]]''
|-
| 2018 || ''Happy Pill''
|-
| 2018 || ''Aami vs Tumi''
|-
| 2018 || ''[[Generation Ami]]''
|-
| 2019 || ''[[Bornoporichoy]]''
|-
| 2019 || ''[[Goyenda Junior]]''
|-
| 2020 || ''Cheeni''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cinestaan.com/articles/2020/dec/4/27990|title=Mainak Bhaumik's upcoming Christmas film to explore nuances of mother-daughter relationship|work=Cinestaan}}</ref>
|-
| 2021 || ''[[Ekannoborti]]''
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| 2022 || ''[[Mini (2022 film)|Mini]]''
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| 2023 || ''[[Cheeni 2]]''
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| 2025 || ''Bhagya laksmi''
|-
| 2025 || ''Grihosto''
|-
| 2025 || ''Batshorik''
|-
| 2026 || ''Made in kolkata''
|}

==== Web Series ====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Title
|-
| — || ''Break Up Story''
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| — || ''Maradonar Juto''
|}

==== Short film / Documentary ====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Title
|-
| — || ''His Life - Her Story''
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| — || ''Gone to Pat''
|-
| — || ''Surviving Chau''
|-
| — || ''Melting Wok''
|}

=== As an editor ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Title
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| 2006 || ''[[The Bong Connection]]''
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| 2008 || ''[[Chalo Let's Go]]''
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| 2010 || ''[[Arekti Premer Golpo]]''
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| 2012 || ''[[Shabdo]]''
|}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb name|2371539}}

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