Bardroy Baretto

Winning several awards for his debut feature Nachom-ia Kumpasar (2014), Bardroy Baretto has made quite a splash in Indian cinema. 

The enthusiasm to make films brought him from Goa to Mumbai. He started his career as an assistant cameraman and handled several projects. During this period he also learnt editing. He tasted his first successes at Crest Studio and USL (a branch of UTV Productions). He has won awards for his editing at national and international award ceremonies which include silver and golden medals for his work in MTV and Channel V. 

He worked in Paanch and Missed Call which were screened at the Cannes Film festival in 2007. He started directing television ads from 2002 and in 2004 founded his own company called Brown Skins. Under this banner he made commercials for reputed brands such Hindustan Lever, Proctor & Gamble, Bajaj Auto, Britannia, HDFC Bank, Tata. Life Insurance,  I T C, Vodafone, Virgin Mobile. His Orange (now Vodafone), Godrej Shaving Cream and Gelusil films have won awards. Within the first year of his company’s founding his name was included by The Mint among the best working directors.  

With the assistance of institutions from Goa and Mumbai he worked to bestow the Karmaveer Award (2010) and Dada Saheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award to the late music wizard Anthony Gonsalves.  

His first film Nachom-ia Kumpasar (Let’s dance to the rhythm) is set during the golden era of Goan musicians. Earning tremendous acclaim, the film was won 34 awards, including three National Awards. The film was uniquely crowd funded and the names of ninety nine who contributed towards the film are shown at the beginning of the movie. Similarly it has been exhibited in a travelling module to reach out to audiences in villages. This is the only Konkani film to be shortlisted for the Academy Awards. The script of this film has been preserved at the Oscar library. As a tribute to the unsung musicians of Goa, the film has twenty songs by the late Chris Perry.