Goutam Ghose launched into documentaries, group theatre and photo journalism in 1973. His second documentary, Hungry Autumn, won him the main award at the Oberhausen Film Festival in 1978. Since then he has made a number of feature films, including Paar and Moner Manush to name a few. He has also produced documentaries on several distinguished personalities such as Ustad Bismillah Khan, Satyajit Ray and the Dalai Lama. A noted cinematographer and music director, he has a number of advertisements, corporate and short films to his credit too. He has won sixteen National Awards, besides Film fare Awards and a number of international awards like Silver Balloon, Nantes Film Festival, UNESCO Award at Venice, Golden Semurg at Tashkent, UNESCO Award, Cannes Film Festival, Fipresci Award, Red Cross Award at Verna Film Festival and Golden Peacock at IFFI. He is the only Indian to win the coveted Vittorio De Sica Award and was awarded the Knighthood of the Star of Italian Solidarity in 2006. Cover photographs by Goutam Ghose Cover design by Pinaki De.
