Bauddhayan Mukherji

Bauddhayan Mukherji aka 'Buddy' (born 1 June 1973) is a National Award-winning(2019) Indian filmmaker based in Mumbai.^[1]

Bauddhayan Mukherji
Born	(1973-06-01)1 June 1973 India
Other names	Buddy
Alma mater	South Point School
Occupation	Filmmaker
Organization	Little Lamb Films
Spouse	Monalisa Mukherji ​ (m. 2002)​
Children	1

He is the co-founder—along with his wife Monalisa—of Little Lamb Films, which has produced three feature films, Teenkahon,The Violin Player and Manikbabur Megh (The Cloud & The Man) and one documentary short, Kiske Liye (Who Is This Women's Day For?).

His forthcoming films include Marichjhapi and The Bookkeeper's Wife.^[2]

Personal life

Bauddhayan Mukherji, popularly known as Buddy, is an Indian filmmaker known for his advertising films and indie features. He was born and brought up in Kolkata. His father Banaj Mukherji was a poet while his mother Mira Mukherji was a school teacher.

At 11, he was gifted a copy of the book "Ekei Bole Shooting" (All About Shooting) written by Satyajit Ray. The book changed his life and Bauddhayan decided to become a filmmaker!

He studied in South Point School and later St. Xavier's College, Kolkata where he majored in Economics. Later he studied at the Clarion College of Communication, eastern India's first advertising college.

Bauddhayan lives in Mumbai with his wife Monalisa and daughter Aarsha.

Professional life

Bauddhayan Mukherji's work life began with Shyamanand Jalan's Kolkata based production house Audio Visual Arts and later he joined Black Magic Motion Pictures where he joined as the assistant director but rose up the ranks to become a partner of the company. He was part of the team that created Patalghar (The Underground Chamber) the cult Bengali film in 2002.

Today Bauddhayan runs his own production house called Little Lamb Films which he founded with wife Monalisa in 2007 and is considered a path breaker in Indian advertising filmmaking. He has directed more than 400 TVCs and has helped create brands like Procter & Gamble, Nokia, Unilever, Honda, GlaxoSmithKline, Coke, Colgate, Heinz, Johnson & Johnson, Hyundai Motor Company, to name a few.^[3]

In 2010, Bauddhayan directed the Bell Bajao campaign for Breakthrough which went on to win the prestigious Silver Lion at Cannes – the Oscars of advertising films. He also became the first Indian filmmaker to win two back to back One Show merits at New York and Spikes Asia Golds at Singapore. In 2015, the Haathipaon Mukt Bharat (Filaria Free India) campaign for Sabin Vaccine Institute landed him with another Silver Lion at Cannes Health.

In 2013, Bauddhayan ventured into feature films and over the last few years has directed two of India's most awarded and internationally acclaimed indies under the banner of Little Lamb Films – Teenkahon (2014, Bengali, available on Amazon Prime) & The Violin Player (2016, Hindi, available on Netflix). These films have been screened at more than 85 film festivals across five continents. In 2015, Bauddhayan went on to win the Aravindan Puraskaram, an award by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy for the Best Debutant Director in the country, for Teenkahon. The Violin Player also became the first Indian film ever to be represented by the French Sales Agents, Alpha Violet.

In 2021, Bauddhayan won his first National Award for The Shower - a PSA on the rural-urban water inequality for Unilever, India. The Shower became the first Indian advertisement film to win the National Award. It won the Best Promotional Film in non-feature film category at the 67th National Film Awards.^[4]

Marichjhapi, his next directorial venture for Little Lamb Films has already created a buzz in the international co-production market when it was chosen to represent India at the prestigious Asian Project Market at Busan 2019 and Cinéfondation L'Atelier at the Cannes Film Festival 2020. One of Bauddhayan's forthcoming directorial project, The Bookkeeper's Wife, was part of the Co-production Market at Film Bazaar 2020 and the Torino Film Lab NXT, 2021.

Festival circuit

Release	Film	Producer	Director	Festival	Category	Accolade	Year	Ref
2023	Marichjhapi (feature)	Monalisa Mukherji	Y	Cannes Film Festival	Cinefondation's L'Atelier program	Official Selection	2020	[5][6]
				Busan International Film Festival	Asian Project Market program	Official Selection	2019	[7][8]
2018	Who Is This Women's Day For? (aka Kiske Liye; documentary)	Y	Monalisa Mukherji	Anatolia International Film Festival		Nominated	2020	[9]
				WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival	Gold Remi	Won	2020	[10]
				Impact Doc Awards	Award of Excellence	Won	2020	[11]
				Central Michigan International Film Festival		Official Selection	2020	[12]
				Aphrodite Film Awards		Finalist	2020	[13]
				2nd South Asian Short Film Festival		Official Selection	2019	[14]
				Beirut International Women Film Festival		Official Selection	2019
				Audfest Documentary Short Film Festival,		Finalist	2018	[15]
2015	The Violin Player (feature)	Monalisa Mukherji	Y	ImagineIndia International Film Festival	Best Actor	Won	2017	[16][17]
					Best Cinematography	Won
				DC Independent Film Festival		Official Selection	2017	[18]
				RapidLion International Film Festival	Best Original Score	Nominated	2017	[19][20]
					Best Screenplay	Nominated
					Best Cinematography	Nominated
				Durban International Film Festival	Best Film Award	Won	2016	[21]
				Raindance Film Festival	Best Film	Nominated	2016	[22][23][24]
					Best Screenplay	Nominated
					Best Actor	Nominated
				Zurich Film Festival		Official Selection	2016	[25][26]
				Cork Film Festival		Official Selection		[27][28]
				São Paulo International Film Festival	New Directors Competition	Nominated	2016	[29]
				All Lights India International Film Festival	Critics Choice for Best Film	Won	2016	[30]
				Kolkata International Film Festival	NETPAC award	Nominated	2016	[31][32]
				Jio MAMI Film Festival	India Gold	Nominated	2015	[33]
				International Film Festival of Kerala	International competition	Nominated	2015	[34]
2014	Teenkahon (feature)	Monalisa Mukherji	Y	Festival du Film d'Asie du Sud Transgressif, Paris, France	Student Jury for Best Narrative Feature	Special Mention		[35]
				DC Independent Film Festival		Official Selection	2015	[36][37][38]
				Zimbabwe International Film Festival		Official Selection	2014
				Kerala State Chalachitra Academy	Aravindan Puraskaram	Won		[39][40]
				Mumbai Film Festival	India Story	Official Selection	2014
				International Film Festival of India	Indian Panorama	Official Selection	2014
				Chennai International Film Festival		Nominated
				Pune International Film Festival		Nominated	2015
				RapidLion International Film Festival	Best Editing	Won	2016	[41]
				London Asian Film Festival		Official Selection	2016	[42][43]
				Virginia Film Festival		Official Selection	2015	[44][45]
				Indian Film Festival Stuttgart		Official Selection	2015	[46]
				Indian Film Festival Melbourne		Official Selection	2015	[47]
				Soho International Film Festival	Best World Showcase	Nominated	2015	[48]
				North Carolina State's Global Film Festival	Best Actor	Won	2015	[49][50]
				Seattle South Asian Film Festival	Audience Choice Award	Won	2014	[51][52]
				Bridge Film Festival	Best Screenplay Award	Won	2014	[53][54][55]
					Jury Special Mention for Cinematography	Won

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External links

• Little Lamb Films website
• Bauddhayan Mukherji on afaqs
• Bauddhayan Mukherji at IMDb