indra bhose
a brief biography

Indra Bhose was born in Scotland before the Swinging Sixties had begun to swing. Noticing the distinct lack of action in downtown Edinburgh, his Indian father and Scottish mother shipped him away to Calcutta, India. But by the late sixties the action was getting too hot, what with the India Pakistan war and all, and the family came back to settle in England.

He spent the seventies in darkest Hertfordshire, where half term visits to the Academy Cinema in Oxford Street began to do the damage. Three years at Oxford University, most of them spent in the front row of the Penultimate Picture Palace, where they screened a different movie classic every day, continued the damage. This plus a lot of acting, directing and drinking led to the kind of degree gentlemen get.

Indra then did the peripatetic thing spending four years in Italy and France, winding up at the Centre Culturel Kiron in Paris where he began to make films.

Returning to England he went to Film School at Goldsmith's College, University of London. His graduation film SHONA MAY, won awards in the Fuji Film Scholarship Competition and David Puttnam selected it to screen on Thames Television's FIRST RUN, showcasing the finest young film making talent in Britain.

Soon after film school Indra wrote and directed his documentary PUJA PUJA for Channel 4 and worked on the documentary series NETWORK EAST for the BBC.

His first break into directing drama was EASTENDERS when dear Arfur' was still much alive and the cry of "Rickeeee" could still be heard in Albert Square.

Since then, Indra has directed major prime-time British television dramas such as THE BILL, CASUALTY, HOLBY CITY, LONDON'S BURNING, THE GRAND, WHERE THE HEART IS and DOWN TO EARTH. He has also directed pilots for comedies (INSPECTOR SHAIKH) and drama series (ACCUSED). He was the director on the pilot episode of the BBC police drama, MERSEY BEAT.

His children's television work includes GIRLS IN LOVE and THE WORST WITCH.

Always keen to spend winters somewhere warm, he went to Mumbai, India to direct the mini series BOMBAY BLUE for Channel Four. Keeping the Indian theme he then made the children's film GRANDPA CHATTERJEE (based on the much loved book) for the same channel. That was filmed in freezing Mill Hill.

His most recent short, LOVED,ALONE with Beth Winslet, was shot in Edinburgh and edited in New York. It premiered simultaneously on both coasts - in the official selection at the Los Angeles International Film Festival and at the New Haven Film Fest on the East Coast.

Indra is also a screenwriter, starting by writing the award-winning script of SHONA MAY and then for his Channel Four documentary PUJA,PUJA and several shorts. He has co-written a feature script, EBONEEZER GOODBYE, with actor Ross McCall (BAND OF BROTHERS), which is currently in development with producer Lisa Neeley at Word and Picture. He also has a completed script detailing autobiographical adventures set in ex-pat Paris called HORIZONTAL BERLITZ - the lawyers are still combing through that.

 
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