Devashish Makhija began his career in the Indian film industry as a researcher and assistant director on the critically acclaimed film in 2007 , the feature-film directorial debut of Anurag Kashyap . In the following year , he was also the chief assistant director to Shaad Ali on the blockbuster '' Bunty Aur Babli '' . Since then , he has written numerous screenplays , notably Avik Mukherjee 's '' Bhoomi '' in the year 2008 and Anurag Kashyap 's upcoming superhero project '' Doga '' . In addition to writing its story , screenplay and dialogue , Devashish made his feature-film directorial debut with the highly appreciated Hindi-Oriya film '' Oonga '' in 2013 , starring Nandita Das , Seema Biswas , Salim Kumar and Raju Singh ( as Oonga ) . '' Oonga '' made its world premiere at the New York Indian Film Festival on 3 May 2013 and was screened in the ' India Gold ' competition section at the 15th Mumbai Film Festival , the 13th River to River . Florence Indian Film Festival and the Indian Film Festival at Melbourne in 2014 . Oonga was also a part of the international competition at the International Film Festival of Kerala in 2014
International Film Festival of Kerala
International Film Festival of Kerala
Devashish Makhija