About the Author

Kenny Deori Basumatary grew up with comics and books and practically never grew up beyond that. After performing well in academics throughout school in Guwahati, Tezpur and Lakhimpur in Assam, he did his best to undo all that damage by setting new records in low grade point averages during his four years at IIT Delhi. He outwitted the authorities there by getting out before they could kick him out. Three years as a news anchor at a regional satellite channel in Guwahati followed, after which a wise uncle said to him, 'If I were you I wouldn't be concerned about being comfortable. I'd go all out and fight to achieve my dreams.' The bulb lit up and Kenny finally made the move to Mumbai to work in the film industry as an actor and writer. In three years there, he has acted in six TV ads, Channel V's comedy show Bollywood Nonsensex and the online standup and sketch comedy show Jay Hind! He worked on the scripts of four films. One never got made, two almost got made, and one got made but hasn't been released. He has co-edited 75 Crazy People, a 49-minute documentary on the making of the National Award- winning film Frozen. With his brother Tony, he has composed songs for and released Brahmaputra, an album of soft rock Assamese and Hindi songs which can be heard at http://soundclick.com/brahmaputra. Armed with a Canon 550D and his brother's audio studio, Kenny is presently working on his zero-budget action comedy feature, Local Kung Fu, where he fills all the minor crew positions of producer, director, writer, actor, composer, fight choreographer and the major crew positions of occasional make-up man, electrician, cook and driver.