Profile of Author
Aneek Chaudhuri is an Indian filmmaker, writer, and theatre practitioner whose work engages with questions of voice, memory, power, and marginalised lives in contemporary society. Working across cinema, theatre, and long-form prose, his practice is marked by political urgency, formal experimentation, and a sustained interest in how personal grief intersects with larger structures of violence, erasure, and representation.
Chaudhuri is best known as the writer-director of the feature film The Zebras, a politically charged work exploring artificial intelligence, ethics, and human agency, which has screened internationally and competed at the Oscars in the United States. His filmmaking often blurs the boundaries between realism and allegory, favouring restrained performances and atmospheric storytelling over conventional spectacle. His films have travelled to festivals like Cannes, Melbourne, Rome, and his film Cactus is also archived at the Oscars. Besides, he has previously authored non-fiction/academic books on Film Studies, specifically on the Psychology of Colors in Cinema. He is a film theorist with a handful of White Papers published on Film Studies on subjects like Auteur Theory and Melodrama in Bengali Cinema in Ritwik Ghatak’s era/
His films reimagine classical myths and canonical texts through contemporary political and psychological lenses, often foregrounding questions of power, gender, and the body. Chaudhuri has also directed and developed documentary projects that examine patriarchy, workplace safety, child upbringing, and rape culture in India, most notably The Place Once Known as Earth and We, Homo Sapiens, a documentary that brings together voices from rural and urban India to interrogate everyday structures of violence and complicity.
Based in India, Aneek Chaudhuri continues to work across film, theatre, and writing, with projects that resist easy categorisation and insist on attentive, ethical listening as a creative and political act.

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Email: porichalokaneek@gmail.com
Phone: +91-7488514828