About Gayatri Chatterjee

Gayatri Chatterjee is a visiting faculty at the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts and at the Department of Cinematography, Bharati Vidyapeeth. She has been faculty in the Direction department at the Film & Television Institute of India, Pune; and visiting faculty at the National School of Drama, New Delhi. She has conducted Film Appreciation courses in schools, colleges and universities all over the country. She has taught and lectured widely in the USA and UK. Her book Awara (1992) received the Swarnakamal, President’s gold medal; and Mother India (2002), published by the British Film Institute was re-launched in 2020. Her articles on cinema, literature and religion feature in several national and international edited volumes. She has been a Jury member at the National Film Awards and at International Film Festivals. She has made a few documentaries and has scripted the feature film The Bitter Chestnut (2019), directed by Gurvinder Singh. Her documentaries include Homes for Gods and Mortals and Dadachi Shala.