Four-Time National Award Winner for the films “Madras Café – 2014”, “Bajirao
Mastani -2016”, “URI –The Surgical Strike 2019” and “Children of the Soil” (non-
feature category) 2019 and a Member of The Oscar Academy’s Class of 2018,
Bishwadeep Dipak Chatterjee is a graduate of the Film and Television Institute of
India, Pune, in Sound Recording and Sound Engineering.
Bishwadeep has designed and mixed the sound for feature films like “Chokher Bali” by the late Rituparno Ghosh, “Lage Raho Munnabhai”, “3 Idiots” and “Sanju” by Rajkumar Hirani, “Parineeta” by Pradeep Sarkar, “Madras Café” and “Piku” by Shoojit Sarkar, “Bajirao Mastani” and “Padmavat” by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, “URI The Surgical Strike” by Aditya Dhar, “Roam Rome Mein” by Tannishtha Chatterjee, “Runway-34” by Ajay Devgan, “Brahmastra” by Ayan Mukherjee, “Adipurush” by Om Raut and “Dunki“ by Raj Kumar Hirani. He has just completed his work as a Sound Designer in Director Laxman Uthekar’s feature film “Chhaava”.
Bishwadeep’s other accolades include 4 Filmfare, 5 IIFA, 4 Screen, 2 Producers’ Guild, 3 Zee Cine and 1GIMA award. He has also been awarded the West Bengal State Award for Contribution to Cinema and the Goa State Award for Sound Design of Konkani Film “K Sera Sera”.
He has been known to introduce and bring in a fresh approach in recording methods. Some of his most prestigious projects as a Music Engineer has been for Television serials like “Chanakya”, “Junoon” and “Swabhiman”, Music albums like “Ab Ke Sawan” (by Shantanu Moitra and Shubha Mudgal), “Dooba-Dooba” (by Silkroute), Films like “Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam” and “Devdas” by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, “Munnabhai MBBS,” by Rajkumar Hirani.
2013 National Award for Best Audiography
2015 National Award for Best Audiography
2018 National Award for Best Audiography
2019 National Award for Best Audiography
Having a career span of just over 3 decades, he has virtually worked in every department of Sound for Feature Films, Short Films, Documentaries, Television serials, Advertising films and Music Albums. Bishwadeep has designed, installed and has consulted on several Recording Studio installation projects including six of his own. He has also lectured and taken workshops
at FTII, Pune, SRFTI Kolkata and several private institutions. He has on invitation conducted Masterclasses on Sound Design in cinema at the IFFI (Goa) and PIFF (Pune).
Bishwadeep has started TAFA (Timbreworx Advanced Film Audiography) an Institute that imparts specialized training in Film Audiography along with his partner Nihar Ranjan Samal.