Devashish Makhija is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, graphic artist, fiction writer and poet.
10 Facts About Devashish Makhija
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Devashish Makhija is best known for writing and directing the full-length feature films: Ajji, Oonga, and Bhonsle.
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Devashish Makhija authored the bestselling children's books, When Ali Became Bajrangbali and Why Paploo was Perplexed, along with a series of 49 short stories published as an anthology, Forgetting, published by HarperCollins.
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Devashish Makhija has worked on the films Black Friday and Bunty Aur Babli.
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Devashish Makhija completed his schooling at Don Bosco High School and pursued a degree in economics at St Xavier's College.
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Devashish Makhija began his career in the Indian film industry as a researcher and assistant director on the critically acclaimed film Black Friday, a film based on the namesake book by Hussain Zaidi about the 1993 Bombay bombings, the feature-film directorial of Anurag Kashyap.
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Devashish Makhija has written and directed two acclaimed short films, Rahim Murge Pe Mat Ro, starring Piyush Mishra as the voice of Rahim Murga in 2008, followed by the film El'ayichi in 2015, starring Nimrat Kaur and Divyendu Sharma, which was chosen among the 5 short films exclusively screened at the 1st edition of the 'Terribly Tiny Talkies' initiative.
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Devashish Makhija has written and directed the short film Absent in 2015, starring Vikas Kumar which was produced by 'Pocket Films' and had an official selection at International Film Festival of South Asia, Toronto, Canada and New York Indian Film Festival.
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Devashish Makhija has authored Tulika Publishers' bestselling children's books When Ali became Bajrangbali and Why Paploo was Perplexed.
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Devashish Makhija's upcoming feature, title Joram, stars Manoj Bajpayee and is being co-produced under his production house Makhijafilm.