A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Krishnanagar, West Bengal, India
Bikram Sikhar Roy was born in a town called Krishnanagar in West Bengal, India. At a young age, his interests bloomed towards fine arts and performing arts. He used to paint at a very childhood age. Bikram studied literature at West Bengal State university along with Film Studies and Journalism & Mass Communication before going after his passion. He spent quite a bit of time being an assistant director for television. Bikram has also spent almost 6 years as an actor to work with numerous theatre groups and has acted in some TV soaps as well. His student short has been awarded by Ooty Film Festival as the Best Film award and has been screened by various international festivals. Bikram has also studied Filmmaking from NFTS, United Kingdom, and is still learning and improving his skills. 'Obhyesh' is his debut short.
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.