Ashish Avikunthak
director · 1972 · Contemporary Tollywood
Locarno 2007 world premiere (Nirakar Chhaya); Berlinale Forum Expanded 2017; repeated Rotterdam selections
10 films catalogued10 directed
Ashish Avikunthak, born Ashish Chadha in Jabalpur in 1972, is an experimental filmmaker and anthropologist who works largely in Bengali and teaches film and media at the University of Rhode Island. Rati Chakravyuh is a single 105-minute take and Kalkimanthankatha transposes Beckett to the 2013 Kumbh Mela. He has shown at Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou.
Defining films
Nirakar Chhaya (2007) · Rati Chakravyuh (2013) · Kalkimanthankatha (2015) · Aapothkalin Trikalika (2017) · Vidhvastha (2023)
Directed (10)
Kalighat Fetish
1999 · Mainstream 80s-90s
End Note
2005 · Bengali Renaissance
Shadows Formless
2007 · Bengali Renaissance
Rati Chakravyuh
2014 · Bengali Renaissance
The Churning of Kalki
2015 · Bengali Renaissance
The Kali of Emergency
2017 · Contemporary Tollywood
Dispassionate Love
2018 · Contemporary Tollywood
Glossary of Non-Human Love
2021 · Contemporary Tollywood
Devastated
2024 · Contemporary Tollywood
The Killing of Meghnad
2026 · Streaming Era