Soumyajit Majumdar is an actor-writer-director-producer and Founder-Director of LOK Arts Collective ( launched on Jan 3, 2010) - instrumental in pioneering the youth-in-arts movement in Kolkata. An alumni of St.Xaviers’college,Kolkata ( Mass Communication and Videography) , #Homecoming ( Project selected during scripting stage and mentored at NFDC Producer’s Lab @Film Bazaar 2019, Goa) is his first feature film as a writer-director-producer. The film is currently streaming worldwide on Sonyliv, India's topmost subscription based OTT platform, successfully as their first Bengali content. Besides being an independent multi-disciplinary artist and artpreneur, he has acted in 25 credible feature films before taking a break to make #Homecoming. Comprising of an eclectic cast with the best of young Bollywood and Tollywood talents like Sayani Gupta, Hussain Dalal, Soham Majumdar, Tushar Pandey, Plabita Borthakur ,Tuhina Das and national-international award winners in the crew, #Homecoming has become the most watched Bengali feature film on OTT. The film trailer too is the most watched Bengali feature film trailer by far after crossing 1.5 cr views cumulatively on digital media. #Homecoming was the only feature film from Bengal to be screened at the London Bengali Festival 2022 (rest were from Bangladesh) and the film was also screened as the Central Section Special at the Washington DC South Asian Film Festival 2022.
As one of the leading actors , he has been part of festival favourites Catsticks directed by Ronny Sen (Honorary mention @World Narratives Grand Jury Prize -Slamdance International Film festival 2019, Best Film at Mammoth Film Festival, Oldenburgh Film Festival, Germany, IFFLA 2019, NYIFF 2019, KIFF 2019, Tallin Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia 2019 Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival 2019 and San Francisco Indie Fest 2020) and as a lead actor in Ghost Of The Golden Groves directed by Roshni Sen and Aniket Dutta (Official selection- London Indian Festival 2019, FDNC Montreal 2019, Nominee FIPRESCI award, Festival De Noveau Cinema 2019, Winner best Ghost music video and Hybrid Feature, Opening film at Chicago Underground Film Festival 2020,Cinequest San Jose Film Festival 2020) .
He has also acted in other festival favourites ‘Gandu’ directed by Q ( Berlin International Film Festival 2011, SAIFF., Seattle, Slamdance), French film Crash Test Aglae directed by Eric Gravel(Cannes International Film Festival 2017) and has played pivotal roles in commercially successful Hindi and Bengali films like Aashiqui 2, Har Har Byomkesh, Bibaho Diaries,Byomkesh Pawrbo and Zulfiqar.
Soumyajit has also been a part of more than 30 feature films and national advertisements as casting director and/or line producer. The only Indian artist inducted in the coveted Global Changemakers Network, Soumyajit has curated around 50 independent art events and festivals. He has written , designed , directed, produced and acted in more than 20 plays with over 500 theatrical performances to his credit primarily with LOK including national and international festivals like Thespo ( Mumbai), Sahabhaga International festival(Bangalore) , Mulakaat ( Indo-Pak cultural relations Festival,Delhi) and Atelier Theatre festival (Delhi) across 12 Indian cities in auspicious venues like Prithvi theatre and NCPA( Mumbai) ,Akshara theatre and LTG auditorium (Delhi), G.D.Birla Sabhagar ( Kolkata) , EZCC(Kolkata) as well as in alternative spaces like campuses,bookstores,art galleries,shopping malls, cafes, lawns, parks, streets and amphitheatres thus creating a personal idiom of using spaces for live –act exploration .
As a believer in youth empowerment through the arts,he has been present as a speaker in various forums and has conducted self- devised theatre and art therapy workshops in leading schools and colleges of India like Sri Ram College of Commerce(Delhi) ,VIT (Vellore),Mount Carmel College (Bangalore), Srishty College of Arts and Design (Bangalore) , Sophia College for Women(Mumbai), Loreto Day school, Mahadevi Birla World Academy (Kolkata) etc . Soumyajit represented India at the Asian Youth Summit for Global Changemakers 2011,has directed developmental theatre projects for the Delhi Government and United Nations with underprivileged kids .He has been awarded YOUNG ACHIEVER 2013 by Whistling Woods International,Mumbai and received the Solo Room Awards at the Monologues festival 2016,Kolkata for his contribution in the arts.