Vikram Dasgupta

Vikram Dasgupta was born in New Delhi, India in 1977 into a family of artists and musicians. After finishing his high school in New Delhi, he got accepted into one of the oldest and most prestigious colleges of it’s kind-The Government College of Arts, Calcutta (est.1864). He graduated from his five year Fine Arts Degree with honors scholarship and was awarded the Gold Medal for outstanding achievement in the field of art and design. While still in Art School he made a short docudrama ‘inSANITY’ about a homeless artist on the streets of Calcutta. Submitting this short film as a portfolio enabled him to get accepted into The Advanced Film and Television program at Sheridan College, Canada in 2001. He has been living in Canada ever since and has been working in Film and TV at various creative capacities, including having worked for Indian musical genius AR Rahman of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ fame on multiple occasions.