Born on August 8, 1963, Shyamal Bose has been active in the Cultural world as a filmmaker, actor and theatre personality for many years. A graduate in the Arts Discipline, Mr. Bose is the Founder-member of a Theatre-Group, ‘Baghbazar Natya Kendra’. Mr. Bose got a “Best Actor” award from the Information &Culture Dept., Govt. of West Bengal. For another play titled “Bikram O Adalat”(Bikram & the Court) he got the award of Best Production and Acting from the Govt. of West Bengal. Over the years, Mr. Bose has directed ten Feature films and a good no. of short films. Some of his important short films were telecast by Doordarshan, the Television channel of India Government. ‘Astitwa’ (The Existence), starring famous Indian actor Soumitra Chatterjee is his latest feature film in the genre of Socio-Political Drama.