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{{Infobox person
| name = Raja Choudhury
| image = RajaChoudhuryJune2019.png
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| caption = Raja Choudhury
| birth_name = Ranjit Choudhury
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1964|06|11}}
| death_date =
| birth_place = [[Ibadan]], [[Nigeria]]
| alma mater = [[AA School of Architecture]]
| occupation = Filmmaker, Architect, Spiritual Teacher and Speaker
| spouse =Jagriti Chadha (2005 - )
}}'''Raja Choudhury''' (born Ranjit Choudhury, 11 June 1964) is a [[National Film Awards|National Film Award]] ([[India]]) winning<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sunday-guardian.com/technologic/restoring-the-lost-legacies-of-brilliant-indian-minds |title=Restoring the lost legacies of brilliant Indian minds |publisher=The Sunday Guardian |date=2014-05-14 |accessdate=2014-05-14 |archive-date=17 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117125330/http://www.sunday-guardian.com/technologic/restoring-the-lost-legacies-of-brilliant-indian-minds |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/documentary-the-quantum-indians-on-indian-scientists/article6937129.ece |title= Giants of Indian science |publisher= TheHindu.com|date=2015-02-27 |accessdate=2015-04-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.nature.com/indigenus/2014/04/film-on-scientists-gets-national-award.html |title= Film on scientists gets national award |publisher= Nature Magazine|date=2014-04-22 |accessdate=2014-04-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20140202/2332639.html |title=The Quantum Indians wins Golden Beaver Award for Best Public Science Film in 2013 |publisher=webindia123.com |date=2014-02-02 |accessdate=2014-02-21 |archive-date=8 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308070819/http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20140202/2332639.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> documentary film maker,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2529130/ |title=Raja Choudhury's profile at the Internet Movie Database |publisher=IMDB |accessdate=2012-07-07}}</ref> architect, public speaker, spiritual teacher on The Shift Network, and designer of multimedia installations and events<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afaqs.com/news/story/24204_Coca-Colas-touch-screen-entertainment-kiosks/ |title= AFAQS article - Coca-Cola's touch-screen entertainment kiosks |publisher=afaqs.com |date=2009-06-09 |accessdate=2012-07-07}}</ref> and Web sites, some of which have received [[Webby Award]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current_honorees.php?media_id=96&category_id=53&season=12/ |title=Webby Honoree CBCWorldwide.com |publisher=WebbyAwards.com |accessdate=2012-07-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current_honorees.php?media_id=96&category_id=40&season=12/ |title=Webby Honoree OurWeddingDay.com |publisher=WebbyAwards.com |accessdate=2012-07-07}}</ref>
==Early Career in Digital Media==

In 1993 Choudhury, Mudimo Okondo, and Emma Westecott founded Zone UK, a digital design company in [[London]]. Choudhury designed the VID Zone Kiosk Network at Tower Records and HMV stores in London. The kiosk was described as "The Best Public Demo of Multimedia Ever" by Design Technology Magazine. In 1995 the team at Zone launched the UK's first CDROM Music & Lifestyle Magazine UnZip<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/home/ipc-launches-magazines-on-cd-rom/2011397.article/ |title=Marketing Week article on Zone UK and IPC's launch of UnZip 1995 |publisher=Marketingweek.co.uk |date=1995-03-10 |accessdate=2012-07-06}}</ref> with [[IPC Magazines]] which was awarded a Milia D’Or at [[Mipcom]] in [[Cannes]] in 1996. Zone was the first company in the UK to introduce kiosk and the Internet into music stores, night clubs and university bars. In 1997 Zone installed multimedia kiosks in 10 London universities, providing the MeTV Network for students. Choudhury moved to [[New York City]] in 1998 and designed the FastTake Video Kiosk Network, the online launches of [[Softbank]], NetValue and [[BT Conferencing]], and became creative director for agencies [[Cohn & Wolfe]] and Converseon. In 2007 he designed Websites [[Webby Award|Webby]] Honorees in 2008: OurWeddingDay.com and CBCWorldwide.com. In 2008 he produced India's first multimedia broadband kiosk entertainment network for [[Coca-Cola]] called the Dilli Dil Se Network<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afaqs.com/news/story/24204_Coca-Colas-touch-screen-entertainment-kiosks/ |title= AFAQS article - Coca-Cola's touch-screen entertainment kiosks |publisher=afaqs.com |date=2009-06-09 |accessdate=2012-07-07}}</ref> in time for the 2009 [[Indian Premier League]] offering videos, video chat, facts, results, games, social networking and mobile downloads. The touch-screen kiosks were available at 30 locations across New Delhi. Since 2009, Raja has continued to work in the digital space advising large brands and non-profit organizations including tGELF, Alchemist Group and The Shift Network.

==Documentary films==
Choudhury's first documentary film as a co-producer and art director was "Desi: South Asians of New York" for [[PBS]] [[Channel Thirteen]] in 2000 with Glazer Creative in New York. He then started publishing a newsletter entitled Universal Quest with [[A.T. Mann]]. He went on to produce numerous videos for the [[American India Foundation]], the [[Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center]] and others. In 2006 he produced his first documentary film "Spirituality in the Modern World" which captured a dialogue between [[Ken Wilber]] and [[Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche]]. The DVD was released in 2007.{{Citation needed|date=April 2026}}

[[File:Raja Choudhury Film Montage.jpg|thumb|Raja Choudhury Films and Awards]]
In 2010 Raja produced his second documentary film "I Believe: Universal Values for a Global Society"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article1523845.ece |title=India is an emerging idea, not just an emerging market |publisher=The Hindu Newspaper |date=2011-03-10 |accessdate=2012-07-07}}</ref> on the beliefs of [[Karan Singh]]. The film was launched by India's Prime Minister [[Manmohan Singh]] in March 2011, and was shown on India's national public TV network [[Doordarshan]]. In 2011 he produced the film "The Modern Mystic" on the spiritual teacher Sri M of Madanapalle. The DVD was launched in Bangalore India in October 2011. Both films were selected for the Spirit Enlightened Film Festival at CultureUnplugged.com. In 2012 he produced "The 21st Century Indian" profiling [[S. M. Krishna]], India's Minister of External Affairs. In August 2013 Choudhury launched the film The Quantum Indians<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.nature.com/indigenus/2013/08/what-can-india-learn-from-bose-raman-saha.html |title=What can India learn from Bose, Raman & Saha? |publisher=Nature Magazine Blog |date=2013-08-07 |accessdate=2013-12-17}}</ref> about the great Indian scientists [[Satyendranath Bose]], [[CV Raman]] and [[Meghnad Saha]] for the Public Service Broadcasting Trust of India (PSBT) and the Public Diplomacy Division of the Ministry of External Affairs of India. This film won the [[National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film]] of 2013 and also the prestigious Golden Beaver Award given by the Indian Department of Science and Technology, [[Vigyan Prasar]], as the Best Public Science Film of 2013. He also produced 2 acclaimed films on Yoga Yoga: Aligning to the Source on the origins, mythology, practice, and history of Yoga was launched on 26 November 2013 and includes appearances by [[BKS Iyengar]], [[Karan Singh]] and [[Devdutt Pattanaik]] and India's official film celebrating the International Day of Yoga entitled Yoga Harmony with Nature which was released on 21 June 2015.

In 2024, Raja completed the production of a film for Public Television in the US called America's First Guru, which tells the story of Swami Vivekananda and how his arrival in Chicago in 1893 led to a spiritual revolution in American culture, words, and consciousness. The film is presented by WTTW Chicago and distributed by NETA.{{Citation needed|date=April 2026}}

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Film/show
! Role
! Notes
|-
|2000
|Desi: South Asians of New York PBS Doc
|Coproducer/Art Director
|First production on the South Asians of New York City; Culture Food, Politics, History.
|-
| 2006
| Spirituality in the Modern World: A Dialogue with Ken Wilber and Traleg Rinpoche
| Producer and Director
| ([[Documentary Film]])
|-
| rowspan="2"|2011
| I Believe: Universal Values for a Global Society
| Producer and Director
| [[Documentary Film]] on [[Dr. Karan Singh]] and his vision for India and Humanity. Launched by PM Manmohan Singh in 2012
|-
| The Modern Mystic: Sri M of Madanapalle
| Producer and Director
| [[Documentary Film]] on spiritual teacher, educator, interfaith activist and beloved Guru to many, Sri M (Mumtaz Ali)
|-
| 2012
| The 21st Century Indian: Wisdom in Action S.M.Krishna
| Producer and Director
| [[Documentary Film]] on SM Krishna, the Chief Minister of Karnataka who was responsible for making Bangalore the Silicon Valley of India
|-
| rowspan="2"|2013
| The Quantum Indians: Bose, Saha and Raman
| Writer and Director
| [[Documentary Film]] on the great Indian scientists Raman, Bose and Saha produced by PSBT and PD/XP of the MEA - winner of 2014 National Film Award for Best Educational Film of 2013 and winner of the Vigyan Prashar Golden Beaver Award for Best Science Film
|-
| Yoga: Aligning to the Source
| Writer and Director
| [[Documentary Film]] on the essence and origins of Yoga produced by PSBT and PD/XP of the MEA
|-
|2015
| Yoga: Harmony wIth Nature
| Writer and Director
| [[Documentary Film]] on the origins, history, practice and worldwide spread of Yoga in celebration of the UN's International Day of Yoga on 21 June 2015 - produced by the PD/XP Division of the Ministry of External Affairs - Premiering June 2015
|-
|2017
| Devipuram: Guruji Amritananda
| Writer and Director
| [[Documentary Film]] on Guruji Amritananda, a nuclear physicist who became India's leading exponent of Sri Vidya and Goddess worship - produced by the Sri Vidya Trust. Premiered in 2017
|-
| 2023
| America's First Guru
| Writer and Director
| [[Documentary Film]] on Swami Vivekananda and the story of how Yoga and Hinduism first came to America with his arrival in 1893 at the World's Parliament of Religions. Premiering in the fall of 2023 on PBS with WTTW Chicago as the presenting station. Will be shown theatrically worldwide and on PBS in the US.
|}

==Major Web and Multimedia Projects==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Project
! Role
! Details and Awards
|-
| 1993-1997
| VID Zone Kiosk Network, UK
| Creative Director and Founder
| UK based Music Video and Interactive Touch Screen Kiosk Network at Tower Records, HMV Stores, Night Clubs, London University Bars and other Retail Outlets across London UK. Described as the "Best public demo of Multimedia ever" by Design Technology Magazine
|-
| 1995-1996
| UnZip CD ROM Music Magazine, UK
| Creative Director and CoFounder with [[IPC Magazines]]
| Europe's first CDROM Multimedia Magazine on Music, Lifestyle and Branded entertainment. Winner of Milia D'Orat MipCOM Cannes 1996
|-
| 1999
| FastTake Video Kiosk Network, USA
| Creative Director
| Design of 300 touchscreen kiosk network for Video Retail across US market
|-
| 2000
| NetValue.com Launch
| Creative Director
| US Launch of leading Digital Metrics Company
|-
| 2001
| BTConferencing.com Launch
| Creative Director
| US Launch of BT's flagship online conferencing brand
|-
| 2004
| Softbank.com Redesign
| Creative Director
| Redesign of Global Bank Sofbank's online presence
|-
| 2005-2006
| Community Church of New York
| Creative Director and Lead Strategist
| Rebranding and redefining of vision for leading New York Unitarian Church and Community
|-
| 2006-2008
| OurWeddingDay.com
| Creative Director
| 2008 Webby Honoree Award Winner
|-
| 2007
| CBCWorldwide.com
| Creative Director
| 2008 Webby Honoree Award Winner for Coldwell Banker Commercial
|-
| 2009
| Coca-Cola Dilli-Dil Se Kiosk Network, India
| Creative Director
| Online touch screen multimedia network at 30 locations across New Delhi and Website celebrating Coca-Cola's sponsorship of the Delhi Daredevils in the IPL
|-
| 2011-2012
| AlchemistGroup.com, India
| Creative Director
| Redesign of online presence of US$2 Billion Indian conglomerate
|-
| 2012-2015
| tGELF.org, India
| Creative Director
| Online and Video launch of The Global Education and Leadership Foundation
|-
| 2015
| TheShiftNetwork.com, US
| Creative Director
| Redesign of one of US' largest Conscious Media company's online presence
|}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|nm2529130|Raja Choudhury}}
*[https://www.rajachoudhury.com Raja Choudhury's Official Website]

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