Akshay Roy

Akshay Roy was born in Mumbai on 25th of April, 1979. Later on, he moved to Nigeria when his father got a job. At the age of 10, he was made to attend a boarding school in Ajmer, Mayo College where he completed his higher secondary course. After his completion of education at Mayo, he took admission to Radley College in the UK as an exchange program tour. However, he completed BA English (Honors) from St. Stephen’s College.

While he was in college, he got into theatre at Shakespeare society and acted and directed even in the play. Some of the plays that he had handled in college days included The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest Click to look into! >> Read More... , The Glass Menagerie etc. After the completion of his degree at St. Stephens, Akshay chose to complete his mass communication degree from Mass Communication Research Centre (MCRC), Jamia and he completed a 2-year MA degree course too. While doing the course, he studied filmmaking at Jamia. After that, Akshay left for Mumbai and worked as an Assistant Director for Farhan Akhtar One of the most recognized young director of India >> Read More... , Mira Nair Mira Nair, a veteran Filmmaker, based in New York >> Read More... and Deepa Mehta.

His first project where he worked as an assistant director includes Farhan’s first directorial movie ‘ Lakshya Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ (2004) which starred Amitabh Bachchan Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in A >> Read More... , Hrithik Roshan Hrithik Roshan with his unimaginable dance moves i >> Read More... , Preity Zinta Preity, also known as Preity Zinta is a famous Act >> Read More... in lead roles. In the year 2006, he was associated with the second unit director credit in the making of Mira Nair’s film ‘ The Namesake Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ which had Tabu and Irrfan Khan In prominent roles. In the year 2005, was associated with second unit director credit for Deepa Mehta’s most controversial movie ‘Water’. Akshay Roy had also directed short films like 'A Shoe Story', 'All is Well', 'The Last Dance' and 'The Finish Line' and won appreciation from the film festival and critics. In the year 2007, he was a second unit director for Aamir Khan's movie ' Taare Zameen Par Click to look into! >> Read More... '.

After directing several short movies, he directed a Bollywood movie ' Meri Pyaari Bindu Click to look into! >> Read More... ' (2016) which featured Ayushmann Khurrana This Vicky donor worked as radio jockey, Video joc >> Read More... and Parineeti Chopra The bubbly actress, born on 22nd October 1988, lan >> Read More... in the lead roles. It is said that Akshay Roy was a second unit director for a TV movie ‘The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag’ which was directed by John Hay and it was a BBC movie. In the year 2004, he was a set production assistant in India for a film 'The Bourne Supremacy' (2004) which was directed by Paul Greengrass PAUL GREEN GRASS is an American Producer, Director >> Read More... . It was an American German action spy thriller movie that received huge reception.