Manish Acharya

Latest News Updates Manish Acharya :-I was born in Bombay, to a middle class family.  I was an only child.  I never thought about cinema or films in any way as a career, because it wasn’t at all feasible.  And so I did what every person in my situation does, which is try to get into some sort of professional career (either engineering or medicine).  And at that time, an opportunity opened up to come and study in the US.  I went to Cornell College in Iowa and majored in physics and computer science.

I worked for a year as a programmer in Des Moines and then I went to graduate school in industrial relations, so my trip to filmdom was very scenic actually.  After that, I was one of the founding members of a software company based in Washington DC, and I was there for six years.  The company grew a lot; we went up to 1000 employees.  And then it suddenly hit me:  “Is this really what I want to do with the rest of my life?”  And the answer was “no”. Its difficult to believe the news. Its difficult to imagine that life can be so cruel and unpredictable. We are still hoping that it turns out to be a really sad joke. But it seems to be true. Manish Acharya, the writer-director-actor of surprise hit Loins Of Punjab Presents passed away today morning. We don’t have the exact details yet but it seems that he fell off while horse riding in Matheran.