Amitava Nag is an independent film scholar and critic. He has been writing extensively on cinema since 1999 in The Hindu, The Wire, News18.com, Outlook, CNN-IBN Live, The Statesman, Deep Focus and Himal Southasian, to name a few. He has also been writing and editing the film magazine, Silhouette, for seventeen years.
Nag has authored books on cinema, including the acclaimed books Satyajit Ray’s Heroes and Heroines published by Rupa and Beyond Apu: 20 Favourite film roles of Soumitra Chatterjee published by Harper Collins India and Reading the Silhouette: Collection of Writings on Selected Indian Films. His most recent books on cinema are 16 Frames, Smriti Sattwa o Cinema and in 2021, Murmurs: Silent Steals with Soumitra Chatterjee, published by Blue Pencil.
He also writes poetry and short fiction both in Bengali and English. His first collection of short stories in English and Bengali are Radha and Atma Abamanana Bishayak Ek-Dui Katha, respectively, apart from a collection of poetry, Kichhuta Sindur Bakita Golap.
He lives in Kolkata.
