A former IPS officer, Ravi Gupta quit the IPS
to take over as managing director of National Film Development Corporation. He
produced films with India’s leading filmmakers including Satyajit Ray, Shyam
Benegal, Aparna Sen among many others and supported new talent in their debut
feature films including Mira Nair, Sumitra Bhave, Sudhir Mishra, Vinod Chopra.
He is a writer, entrepreneur, educationist and is currently dean and director
of Whistling Woods International. He was the managing editor of Cinema in
India. He is a linguist and speaks eight languages including Spanish, French
and German.