Raj Acharya is a Mumbai-based First Assistant Director, who won the 2009 DGA Award for Outstanding Directiorial Achievement in Motion Picture with Danny Boyle, for the multiple Academy award-winning film, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. He has served as First Assistant Director on the films like EAT, PRAY, LOVE (Dir. Ryan Murphy, Prod. Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner), THE WAY BACK (Dir. Peter Weir. Prod. Scott Rudin Productions), FOR REAL (Dir. Sona Jain), BOLLYWOOD HERO (Prod. IFC), SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (Dir. Danny Boyle, Prod. Celador), ONE NIGHT WITH THE KING (Dir. Michael O. Sajbel), MISTRESS OF SPICES (Dir. Paul Mayeda Berges, Prod. Gurinder Chadha, Deepak Nayar) and many more. He is currently developing his Directorial debut feature titled PROJECT X.