Shoojit Sircar

Kolkata, India

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Born into a Bengali family in Kolkata, Sircar finished school at Kendriya Vidyalaya Barrackpore Airforce, earned a commerce degree from Delhi’s Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, worked as an accountant and in advertising, and founded the theatre troupe Act One in the early 1990s, experiences that shaped his cinematic outlook. His first feature, the war-torn romance Yahaan (2005), met mixed receptio…