Who is Avinash Das, the filmmaker detained for sharing a photo of Amit Shah with tainted bureaucrat?

Avinash Das has also been credited as a ‘correspondent’ for 14 episodes of the Aamir Khan show Satyamev Jayate.

In an earlier interview with The Indian Express, Avinash had shared that he was a reporter for two decades before he switched his career and decided to pursue filmmaking: “I never spoke about it when I was younger because I didn’t want people to laugh at me. I watched every movie that came to Darbhanga because it was a new world, something different was happening on the big screen. In Patna, I became a member of a cine-society and watched a lot of world cinema. In 2002, I set up a cine commune for people to come together and talk about films. Years later, after I moved to Delhi, I started another cine commune where Anurag Kashyap, Sudhir Mishra and Subhash Kapoor came and we’d talk about films. But my day job was journalism — I worked as a reporter and editor for over 20 years.”

Born in Darbhanga, Bihar, Avinash Das resides in Mumbai with his wife and children.