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1st AD

Ashok Kumar Ganguly

Bio

Ashok Kumar Ganguly has for many years been directing, conducting and participating in various shows, festivals and radio programmes arranged by Visva-Bharati University, including Rabindranath Tagore’s musical-dramas and dance-operas, in Santiniketan, elsewhere in India and South East Asia. In 1972, he was one of the singers in a University production of Shyama which toured Bangladesh. He was a Rabindra Sangeet artiste at All India Radio from 1978 to 1983 and has appeared on Kolkata and national TV as a solo singer, in choruses and as an actor.

Ashok Kumar Ganguly is a Professor and the Principal of Sangeet Bhavan, Visva-Bharati University, where he was previouslyHead of the Department of Rabindra Sangeet, dance and drama. He has been teaching Rabindra Sangeet since 1980. He was a solo singer on the 1982 HMV LP of Tagore’s Kalmrigaya.

1st AD- Job Description

The First Assistant to the Director. S/he operates in cooperation with the Director and the Production Manager as the Producer's administrative consultant applying his/her artisits, technical and professiona expertise as the on set expediter and is responsible for maintaining optimum coordination among crew categories and performers in order to maintain the pace required by the shooting schedule as set by the Director.