Putul Mahmood

Putul Mahmood, an alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), is a filmmaker, producer and teacher.
She is the Producer of the Indie Bengali feature film Cosmic Sex directed by Amitabh Chakraborty. The film premiered at the Osian’s CineFan Festival of Arab and Asian Cinema where it won the Best Actress Award and was widely distributed across international online platforms as well as having a theatrical release in Bengal.
She has directed several short fiction and documentary films including You Who Never Arrived featuring Irrfan Khan and Geetanjali Kulkarni, Man of Silence- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, I Shoot U, Atasi, Three Sisters and Kajal. Atasi won the Best Film Silver Conch (under 60 mins category) at MIFF 2020.
Three Sisters won the National Award for the Best Film on Social Issues at the 68th National Awards.
Putul Mahmood also works as a Script Consultant on short fiction and feature films- Serious Men on Netflix starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, is one of her recent works in that capacity. Serious Men won the Best Film Award at the Filmfare 2021 online Awards and was nominated to the Emmy Awards in the Best Actor Category.

Putul has designed and been the Course Director of Docurama a three week long residential Documentary Workshop and Appreciation course, the first of its kind, in collaboration with Siddharth Kak and the IDC department of IIT Powai.

Putul Mahmood has worked as an Executive Producer and Commissioning Editor for Chakra Channel. She has directed 86 episodes of Renditions, an Indian Classical Music based series.
Putul Mahmood is one of the co-authors of Shift Focus – Women Shaping The Narrative In Media and Entertainment; commissioned by Women In Cinema Collective (WCC) and the US Consulate in Chennai. This is a Report that describes the prevailing working conditions of women cine workers in the South Indian film Industry and proposes steps to be taken to make them more gender-sensitive and gender just.