Amitabh Aurora

Amitabh Aurora is a film director who predominantly works in Hindi and Swahili, the official language of Tanzania, language movies. Apart from being a film director, he is also an artist, producer, and writer, who has worked in several television serials and short films. Amitabh Aurora was born on the 11th of June 1981 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. He went to St.Amtul Public School and Maharishi Patanjali Vidya Mandir. In 2003, he concluded his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Application from C.C.S. University, Institute of Management Studies in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Upon completing his studies, Amitabh moved to New Delhi and worked as a theatre artist for four years. He associated with New Delhi Players and the Yatrik Theatre Group. With the dream of becoming an actor, he shifted his base to Mumbai in 2008. Amitabh essayed the role of Yash in the soap opera Astitva….Ek Prem Kahani and as Vicky in Woh Hue Na Humaare. He joined the UTV New Media group and worked as an associate sales manager for various UTV owned web, TV, and mobile platforms. In 2009, he moved to Tanzania, a country in East Africa. In Tanzania, he worked as a Business Head for Pili Pili Entertainment and collaborated with ad agencies, corporate, and TV channels. He wrote and directed his first independent feature-length film, Usaliti in2010. He also shot a documentary on public awareness for the National government of Tanzania.

Further, Amitabh worked as the producer for the shows Master Chef South Africa, BBC documentary on the Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is considered to be the pioneers >> Read More... , Vodacom Mobile, and Oriflame photo shoot. Following Usaliti, he wrote and directed the Swahili feature film Glamour: The Reality behind the Dream in 2011 for ZG Films. This film accounts for being the first high-quality Bongo movie. The movie describes the dreams and aspirations of a young Zanzibari girl of becoming an actor. In 2012, he wrote and directed two Swahili films, Black Magic and Room number 13. They screened both his films at the Zanzibar International Film Festival along with his other feature film, Glamour. He has also directed a documentary for a music festival in Tanzania.

Amitabh Aurora returned to India in 2012 and worked as the creative producer and writer for Picture Thoughts Production. He was the creative producer for the 2015 Naseeruddin Shah Naseeruddin Shah is an experimental actor and asso >> Read More... starrer Charlie Kay Chakkar Mein film. Besides being a creative producer, he also penned the dialogues for the movie Chai Shai Biscuits. Amitabh Aurora was also part of the war film Kya Dilli Kya Lahore, which got released in 2014. He then turned his focus to television and worked as an associate writer for TV shows, Bani–Ishq Da Kalma on Colors TV, and Kehta Hai Dil Kehta Hai Dil is an Indian television Drama broadc >> Read More... Jee Le Zara on Sony TV. In 2015, he wrote, directed, and acted in the short film Captain the Smuggler….Returns!! The short film got selected in the Paraj Mumbai Short Film Festival. In the same year, Amitabh assisted director Tigmanshu Dhulia Tigmanshu Dhulia is a super talented and multi-fac >> Read More... in his movie Yaara. His other short films include Undercurrent Temper and Sauti Za Busara.

Amitabh Aurora founded the production house HCMF Productions in 2016 to promote cross-cultural filmmaking. He wrote, directed, and produced the dark comedy short film Free Basics starring Shraddha Das The model turned actor, Shraddha Das is one among >> Read More... , KP Nishan, Jayashree Venkataramanan. The short film garnered tremendous responses from the critics and was the official selection for Zanzibar International Film Festival 2017. The film also was screened at Lonavala International Film Festival, India. At the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, his short film Blind to Speak, directed and produced by him, received the Health Grand Prix for Good. Having worked in films across three continents, Amitabh Aurora thrives on producing meaningful content with a social message.