Onir was born in Samchi, a small town in Bhutan on the 30th April, 1969. After his schooling in Bhutan he came to Kolkata(India) and graduated as a student of Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University in 1989. He joined the Film studies course at Chitrabani, Kolkatta.
In 1991 he co-directed his first documentary film at a work shop organized by Max Muller Bhavan and Chitrabani in Kolkatta. The documentary film was called "Glimpses of College Street". In the same year he was offered scholarship to train at an advanced editing course with SFB/TTC Berlin.
Returning from Berlin he made his first independent documentary (it was also produced by him). 'Fallen hero' (1992) was a documentary, which was a portrait of an aging painter Bijon Chaudry and his dilemma with the changing political scenario in Bengal.
In 1999, he got his first experience with the filmmaking. He was the film editor, song designer, and song director of the film "Daman" directed by Kalpana Lajmi. This is where he met Sanjay Suri. Sanjay's encouragement made Onir start working on his scripts.
Finally in 2004, Sanjay and Onir decided to produce Onir's first film "My brother Nikhil" which was to become the first main stream film that addressed the issue of homosexuality apart from dealing with issues of Human rights and HIV AIDS. Yash Raj released this film on 25th March, 2005.
The film fetched many international awards.
In 2006, he came out with his second feature film 'Bas Ek Pal' that had the cast of Juhi Chawla, Urmila Matondkar, Jimmy Sheirgill, Rehaan Engineer and Sanjay Suri.
His most recent work was 2008 film, 'Sorry Bhai!' featuring Shabana Azmi, Boman Irani, Sanjay Suri, Chitrangda and Sharman Joshi under the home production Anticlock Films Pvt. Ltd.
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In 1991 he co-directed his first documentary film at a work shop organized by Max Muller Bhavan and Chitrabani in Kolkatta. The documentary film was called "Glimpses of College Street". In the same year he was offered scholarship to train at an advanced editing course with SFB/TTC Berlin.
Returning from Berlin he made his first independent documentary (it was also produced by him). 'Fallen hero' (1992) was a documentary, which was a portrait of an aging painter Bijon Chaudry and his dilemma with the changing political scenario in Bengal.
In 1999, he got his first experience with the filmmaking. He was the film editor, song designer, and song director of the film "Daman" directed by Kalpana Lajmi. This is where he met Sanjay Suri. Sanjay's encouragement made Onir start working on his scripts.
Finally in 2004, Sanjay and Onir decided to produce Onir's first film "My brother Nikhil" which was to become the first main stream film that addressed the issue of homosexuality apart from dealing with issues of Human rights and HIV AIDS. Yash Raj released this film on 25th March, 2005.
The film fetched many international awards.
In 2006, he came out with his second feature film 'Bas Ek Pal' that had the cast of Juhi Chawla, Urmila Matondkar, Jimmy Sheirgill, Rehaan Engineer and Sanjay Suri.
His most recent work was 2008 film, 'Sorry Bhai!' featuring Shabana Azmi, Boman Irani, Sanjay Suri, Chitrangda and Sharman Joshi under the home production Anticlock Films Pvt. Ltd.
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