A Berlinale Talents 2021 alumnus, Tathagata has always believed in telling stories of people from different social backgrounds. People who do not have a voice of their own. He completed his B.Sc in Mass Communication and Videography from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata and then his post-graduation from Vancouver Film School in Writing for Film and Television. His last short films "Dhulo"(The Scapegoat), "Miss Man", "Mangsho"(The Meat) and "Doitto"(The Demon) have travelled to numerous prestigious international film festivals like BFI Flare, Out on Film, Coalition of South Asian Film Festivals (CoSAFF), Tallgrass Film Festival, Cheries-Cheris, Wicked Queer, International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala to name a few and have won several awards.