Sangeeta Datta

Sangeeta Datta is a writer, filmmaker, singer and film historian. She has authored Shyam Benegal, 100 Essential Indian Films, and co-edited Rituparno Ghosh: Cinema, Gender and Art, Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas and Tagore: The World as His Nest.
Sangeeta holds a PhD from Jadavpur University and has undertaken postdoctoral projects at the University of Sussex and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has taught English and film studies for many years at MMC Calcutta; St Xavier’s College, Bombay; Birkbeck College, London.

Her award-winning films include Life Goes On and Bird of Dusk. She is the artistic director of the culture platform Baithak UK and has been working in the India-UK corridor for many decades.

Sangeeta loves cinema, music and literature and enjoys dividing her time between two metros, London and Calcutta.