Graduated from FTII in early 1996 with a specialization in film editing
and worked mainly as a freelance editor for over 25 years. Since 2022, he has been a faculty member of the Video Editing Department at FTII, Pune.
He has edited more than two dozen feature films.
Among his notable editing credits are:
the Marathi films “Shwaas” (National Award for Best Feature Film, 2004; also India's official entry for the Oscars, 2005), “Valoo” (2007), “Vihir” (2009), “Dahavi F” (2002), “Nadi Vahate” (2014), “Kshitij” (2016), “The Last Mile’ (2020).
He has also edited “K Sera Sera” (2016, Konkani) and “Glory” (2019, Konkani), the Gujarati film “Dhh” (2017) and the multilingual “Lailaa Manju” (2022).
He has also worked on the Hindi films “Zindagi Zindabad’ (1997), “Kuchh Dil Ne Kahaa” (1999), “Aurangzeb” (2013) and “Class Of ’83” (2019).
He has also worked extensively in non-fiction, having edited over thirty documentaries and an equal number of short fiction films, most notably the documentaries "Kalighat Fetish", (Best Documentary 2001, Tampere Film Festival, Finland);; "Cinema ka Sapna Dekha Hai?", “Moner Manush", "Yeh Gulistan Hamara", "Begum Hazrat Mahal”, “Dancing Othello”.
As part of his work with students, he has edited over fifty non-fiction projects and an equal number of fiction projects. Several of these have been shown on national television and have also won several awards at various festivals around the world.
He has been involved in academics for over two decades,teaching theory as well as the practical aspects of film in general and editing in particular at various places.
In the past, he has conducted several workshops at FTII, including the short courses in Video Editing conducted by FTII under PMKVY and SKIFT, from the inaugural edition in 2017 to 2021.
He has been a part of the regular Visiting Faculty at the Social Communications Media Department, Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai (2005 to 2016) and Digital Academy, Mumbai (2011 to 2018).
He has also taught frequently at the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, Whistling Woods International,Mumbai and conducted workshops at IDC (IIT Bombay),
MRID (MSU Baroda), MIT (Loni Kalbhor) and also with organizations such as Majlis, Point of View, Filament Pictures, Living Bridge (Pune) among others.