Raj Acharya coming to SIMCinema

 
Raj Acharya : Standing left to Danny Boyle , receiving the DGA award .

SIMCinema is getting bigger and better . Raj Acharya , First Assistant Director - Slumdog Millionaire, has confirmed to be here amongst us for SIMCinema . We are all lucky to have an individual who has won the prestigious Directors Guild America(DGA) Award for outstanding directorial achievement along with Danny Boyle. Keep checking this space and also the FB events page for more updates .... some more names expected :)

About Raj :

Raj Acharya is a Mumbai-based Director, who recently won the prestigious Directors Guild America (DGA) Award for Outstanding Directiorial Achievement in Motion Picture with Danny Boyle,for the multiple Academy award-winning film, Slumdog Millionaire. He has served as First Assistant Director on several films like Eat, Pray, Love (Dir. Ryan Murphy, Prod. Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner), The Way Back, For Real, Bollywood Hero, Slumdog Millionaire (Dir. Danny Boyle, Prod. Celador), One Night With The King, Mistress Of Spices (Dir. Paul Mayeda Berges, Prod. Gurinder Chadha, Deepak Nayar) and many more. He is currently developing his Directorial debut feature titled Project X.

He has also worked on several Television Commercials, for brands like Gillette,Ford,Airtel DTH,Nerolac,Orbit,Tide etc. Apart from Hollywood he has also worked on several Bollywood films like Chalte Chalte , Nayak and Kuch Na Kaho .

Raj has been in the industry for almost 20 years now and has seen the harder side of life . After his father died, he was forced to drop out of his engineering course. Being the eldest of siblings, he had to do odd jobs to meet the family’s needs. The world of cinema opened to him when he began assisting his uncle T M Sunder, a sound-effects editor. Later, he worked for the Omar Sharif-starrer One Night with the King, Christmas in India.

In Danny Boyle’s own words – “Raj is a very talented individual and I relied heavily on him while working in Mumbai for Slumdog Millionaire. Raj drove everybody mad, but I saw the film through his eyes”.

We feel privileged to have him as a part of our very own student film festival, SIMCinema. He will be here to interact with students and also be a part of a panel discussion.

Last Minute Reminder : Registrations for SIMCinema end tonight .

SIMCinema Website :
http://www.simc.edu/SIMCinema/home.htm

SIMCinema FB page :
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=116224961776322