Subhajit Singha is a film editor whose career spans more than sixteen years and over a hundred feature films, documentaries, and series. During this time, he has shaped narratives across genres and languages, collaborating with filmmakers whose works have travelled to national and international festivals and earned several major awards. His editing has contributed to films that have resonated deeply with audiences and juries alike, strengthening his reputation as a craftsman of emotion, rhythm, and narrative clarity.
Born with a fascination for the internal architecture of stories, Subhajit gravitated naturally toward the edit room, a space he describes as both sanctuary and laboratory. Over the years, he has developed a distinctive approach to montage: attentive to silences, trusting of intuition, and grounded in a belief that meaning often emerges from the smallest and quietest details. He views editing not as a mechanical process, but as a dialogue with images, a conversation that demands patience, empathy, and a deep respect for time.
His professional journey has led him to shape performances, refine cinematic rhythms, and help films find their emotional heartbeat. As his projects grew in scale and diversity, so did his understanding of the invisible grammar that connects scenes and the poetic potential hidden within the cut. These reflections, accumulated over years of practice, ultimately inspired him to write his first book.
Poets of the Darkroom is the culmination of that long journey, a weaving together of craft, philosophy, and poetic observation. Drawing from countless hours spent in edit suites, Subhajit offers a rare glimpse into the inner life of editing, exploring its mysteries with the eye of an artist and the clarity of a seasoned professional. His writing echoes the very qualities that define his work as an editor: subtlety, precision, and an unwavering respect for the soul of a story.
Beyond film, Subhajit continues to explore the intersections of cinema, literature, and time. Through his editing, writing, and ongoing creative experiments, he remains committed to understanding how narratives are shaped, and how, in the quiet rooms where films are born, fragments become whole.