Partho Sen-Gupta was born in Mumbai, India. He started his career as an apprentice in the art department in the studios of Bollywood at the age of 17. He then set up his own design studio and worked on numerous advertising films and feature films, designing sets and specializing in SFX. He was Art director on Alain Corneau's Nocturne Indien, shot in India in 1989.
In 1993, he was awarded a scholarship to study film direction at the FEMIS, the French film institute in Paris. He made four short films that took him to different European film festivals at which he won several awards. After graduation, he made his first feature film, Hava Aney Dey – Let the wind Blow (93 mins, Hindi) which premiered at the 2004 Berlin International film festival. It was also selected by many other major international film festivals and won awards. It was screened at the MoMa, NYC for the Global Film Initiative's Global Lens 2008 series.
His feature film Sunrise (Arunoday), an Indo-French coproduction with Adil Hussain and Tannishtha Chatterjee, was selected at the 19th Busan International film festival in the New Currents Competition section.
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