Filmmaker Partho Sen-Gupta was born in Mumbai, India. He started his career at the age of 17 as an apprentice in the art department in the studios of Bollywood. He then set up his own design studio and worked on numerous advertising films and feature films, designing sets and specializing in SFX. He was Art director on French director Alain Corneaus 'Nocturne Indien' in 1989. He won the award for Best Art Director in India in 1989.

In 1993, he was awarded a scholarship to study film direction at the FEMIS, the French film institute in Paris. Between 1993 and 1997, he made four short films that took him to different European film festivals at which he won several awards. After graduation, he wrote and directed his first feature film, Hava Aney Dey Let the wind Blow (93 mins, Hindi). It was selected at Cinemart at the International film festival of Rotterdam. It premired at the 2004 Berlin International Film Festival. It was also selected by many other major international film festivals and won several awards. It was screened at the MoMa, NYC for the Global Film Lens 2008 series. Sen-Gupta also directed a documentary, Shakti Timeless, on the Indo-Western fusion group, tracing its history from the 1970s to the present.

He lives and works in the UK and in India