Dharmakirti Sumant

Recipient of Sahitya Akademi Yuva Award (2012), Dharmakiriti Sumant has done his Masters in Creative Writing - Scriptwriting from University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) under Inlaks Overseas Education Scholarship Award (2017-18). He's an alumnus of Screenwriting department (FTII) with released films such as 'Maunraag' (2013), 'Phuntroo' (additional dialogue) (2016), 'CRD' (2017) and 'Ashleel Udyog Mitra Mandal' (2020). With an academic background in political science, Sumant is also a visiting faculty at SCMC, SIMC (Symbiosis), SPPU: Lalit Kala Kendra, FLAME; as well as a playwright with published Marathi plays namely 'Pani, Charu Aro Ity' and 'Geli Ekvees Varsha'.