Partho Sen-Gupta (also spelled Partho Sen Gupta or Partho Sengupta) is a Franco-Indian independent film director and script writer. He was born in Mumbai (Bombay), India, on 2nd September, 1965. He has been working in cinema since the age of seventeen, starting his career as an apprentice in the Art department, in the studios of Bollywood in Bombay. He worked with an Indian Art director Bijon Das Gupta on the sets of commercial Hindi films like Sagar and Mr India (1987) among others.

After having spent a few years and finishing his apprenticeship he became Assistant Art director. In 1988, he worked on his first film as Art director or Production designer, an Indian art movie called Main Zinda Hoon (1988) (I am Alive) directed by Sudhir Mishra. He then set up his design studio working on numerous advertising films and Art movies, designing sets and specializing in real-time SFX. He won the Best Art Director Award in 1989.

His work as a Production designer on the French film Nocturne indien (1989) directed by Alain Corneau, became the beginning of a long relation with France. In 1993, he was selected to do a two month summer workshop at FEMIS, the French film institute in Paris. During the workshop he directed his first short film. He was awarded a three and a half year full scholarship to study film direction at the FEMIS.

During the film school years, he made four short fiction films Le Cochon, La Partition, Trajet Discontinu, and La Petite Souris which took him to different European film festivals and won awards.

After graduation in 1996/97, he decided to live between the two cities, Paris and Mumbai, and started writing his first feature film script based in India called Hava Aney Dey (2004) (Let the Wind Blow) which premiered at the 'Berlin International film festival' in 2004. It was selected in many International film festivals and won awards.

He was invited by the 'Cannes Film Festival' in 2005 as a part of a group of promising young filmmakers by the Cine-fondation. In 2005, he made a documentary film The Way of Beauty (2006) (V) on the Indo-fusion group Shakti which was released on the DVD in May 2006.

He is currently working on his second feature film project _Fallen Hero (2006)_ (produced by Oskar films, Paris). It received the Hubert Bals Fund at the 'International Rotterdam Film Festival' and has another feature film project adapted from a famous novel in development.

Partho Sen-Gupta likes to play the French Game Pétanque in his free time.