Sudeep Ranjan Sarkar aka SRS is the iconic Indian film maestro who conquered world with path breaking cinema

Sudeep Ranjan Sarkar

A dyslexic boy from Dhanbad ( now in Jharkhand) has gone on to become a maestro in world cinema, much feted and appreciated in Europe for his path breaking cinema, Sudeep Ranjan Sarkar aka SRS as he is popularly known is a thinker , poet ,self taught painter and a cult filmmaker. He has transcended the barriers of Bengal and Bollywood regional cinema into the arena of Global storytelling. His movies are a melting pot of Indian, European, American actors sharing equal screen space with a melange of dialogues in Hindi, English, German, Italian, the film making lineage of masters like Satyajit Ray, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, he has created his own genre. His outstanding achievements have seen him become a pioneer in the space of independent cinema worldwide. He has shot three feature movies out of his six movies with iPhone in absolute challenging situ in France and various places of India.

SRS has broken the record of Academy awarded Steven Soderberg who has shot two feature movies with iPhone.Recordowners.com has featured him on their site for this feat.

SRS has shown the independent filmmakers across the world what it is to be truly independent without the constraints of a great budget and huge equipment.

SRS and his works are so widely recognized in Europe that in the 2019 Cannes Film Festival he was felicitated in the American pavilion for his smartphone cinema by Prof Karl Bardosh of New York Film Academy. His movies are uniquely women centric yet he claims no such title. As a recognition of his unique cinema and storytelling one of the oldest Festival of Italy, Europe, Premio Internazionale Apoxiomeno is hosting a special showcase of his last two feature movies 'Glorious Dead' and 'Death of Spring ' in a special category in Italy, this year, where he has been invited as the Guest of Honor along with a host of international celebrities. In the In European film world he is called as "Maestro SRS" and is seen as combining iconic names Robert Rodriguez and Lars Von Trier.

A self taught painter (style Impressionist), Poet, Philosopher the filmmaker and storyteller, SRS, runs a production company NEZ Moving Pixels with Rita Jhawar and is the Founder of seven years old art house film festival NEZ International Film Festival. The unique feature of his films are that they are shot on smartphones and are a study in unique cinema making. Mostly avoiding external light sources, no additional art setting, no makeup looks, they represent European cinema movement Dogme 95.

SRS started another landmark event in 2015, NEZ International Film Festival. Now in its 7th year it is a ‘Go to Festival' for independent Filmmakers across the world. Starting with 2021 the festival has tied up with a premier 22 year old Film Festival of Italy. SRS has started a new project in the field of OTT dealing with art cinema. For SRS the whole world is a stage. He is in talks with a major Hollywood star to work on his next upcoming project. Recently concluded Indian World Film Festival,Hyderabad awarded him with Best Film and Best Background Music award for his English language film Death of Spring shot entirely in France with just an iPhone and actors from India,Germany,Italy and Russia.

SRS is a renowned Impressionist Painter, English language Poet and Philosopher and of pseudonyms, Emhyr Alharic for Filmmaking and Leo Romero for Arts, Leon Marcus V and Theodore Adam l for literature.