Meet The People
The Story
We are Sahajaat.
We met as individuals who wanted to be storytellers – Vinay, Prithwi and Amitabha. We ended up forming a unique team that has starkly diverse credentials and backgrounds but our passion & vision to bring forth a new language of cinema joins us.
Vinay and Prithwi come from traditional fields of education and corporate life; whereas Amitabha has been making short films and feature films, that have been screened and awarded multiple national and international awards over the years.
Our distinctive skills and a mutual creative vision gave birth to an offbeat platform for creating unique stories. Through this platform we want to give voice to the extraordinary stories of ordinary people that the mainstream cinema or television has failed to bring forward.
We strongly believe in the power of storytelling, and that every story has a unique place in the world. Our mission is to tell these stories, and to bring new characters to life, and to give them a voice.
Our focus is to explore lives of common people and narrate their endeavours through our stories. We want to convey tales of ordinary folks who are trying their level best to make it big in their respective fields even if they don’t have formal education or training, but still do heroic deeds every day just like regular folks do in real life situations.
We often see overtly simple, one-dimensional representation of characters and what they represent: good guys, bad guys, love interests… But there’s more to them than meets the eye! We believe that these characters have a lot more depth and multiple layers that need to be unwrapped prudently — and we want to bring this complexity to life on screen! We also aim to choose and represent production plots that are distinctive and unlike each other.
Sahajaat also plans to create opportunities and resources for deserving candidates in the field of filmmaking.
Meet Our Team
AMITABHA CHATERJI
DIRECTOR
Amitabha Chaterji is an Independent filmmaker from India. His first feature film ‘Manohar & I’ was awarded Best Debut Director Award in the International Film Festival of Kerala, 2018. He was nominated for the ‘Best Debut Film Award’ in Jaffna International Cinema Festival, 2019 & also won the prestigious ‘Best Feature Film Award’ in the Pondicherry International Film Festival’, 2019.
His debut film also participated in some prestigious international festivals like — The San Diego Asian Film Festival in 2019, The Diorama International Film Festival in 2019, The International Short & Independent Festival, Dhaka in 2019, The Third Eye Asian Film Festival in 2020, and so on.
He was a panelist in the Art House Asia Film Festival. He has also made a documentary presentation as a tribute to the Birth Centenary of the great Satyajit Ray on behalf of the Federation of Film Societies of India. Amitabha has received certificates in Indology, Appreciation of Indian Art, and Appreciation of Film Aesthetics from the State Government. Street-photography is also a strong passion of Amitabha’s.
VINAY YADAV (SHEER)
FRIEND & ADVISOR
Vinay Yadav is a Science Major from University of Delhi, with a Masters in Management. He has also completed an Advanced Program in Marketing from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
Vinay’s career spans over 20 years, with a vast experience in handling and managing Sales & Marketing for major Real Estate giants. He has been spear heading large teams and projects for some of the most well-known names in the construction & Infrastructure Industry like Ambience, Parsvnath Developers and Ansal Properties & Infrastructure. A fantastic manager and organisational change agent, Vinay is very passionate about selling innovative ideas and solutions, and he does it with great joy as well.
When he’s not working, he can be found chasing & playing with his kids. His love for cricket takes him to the playground himself or you might find him watching cricket matches on TV. He is also an avid photographer, loves playing his favorite tunes on his guitar and musing various subjects for his stories & poems.
PRITHWIRAAJ BOSE (Hrid)
CEO
Prithwiraaj Bose (Hrid) is a Vedic Astrologer, Vaastu Consultant, and a Vedic & Jyotish Teacher. He is a graduate from University of Delhi with a PhD ’Jyotish Rishi’ – in Vedic Jyotish from AIIFAS, New Delhi. He belongs to the Shree Achyutananda Guru Shishya Parampara of Orissa since 2007, where he learnt traditional secrets of predictive astrology. He is trained in teachings of Maharishi Parashara & Sutras of Maharishi Jaimini. A certified Jyotish Pandit, Prithwiraaj is a specialist in BPHS (authored by Maharishi Parashara) & on Jaimini Sutras (authored by Maharishi Jaimini). He has travelled across India and other continents practicing Vedic Astrology & Vaastu Consultancy during a career span of over 17 years. He has also been teaching Vedic Astrology for the last 10 years.
Influenced by a musical atmosphere at home in his childhood, and trained in Rabindra Sangeet by his mother, he grew with a natural talent for singing. In 2013, he started learning Hindustani classical music from Shree Vachaspati Mishra of ‘Kirana Gharana’ in Mumbai. He is currently learning Raag music from Shree Anol Chatterjee disciple of Padma Bhushan Pt. Ajoy Chakraborty of ‘Patiala Gharana’. He also learnt the guitar from the late Darshan Singh of Delhi.
He wishes to leave his mark in the field of playback singing.