Navroze Contractor grew up in Ahmedabad. Studied at Shreyas, the first Montessori school in India. He obtained a BA (Fine Arts) degree in painting and photography at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University of Baroda. His interest in cinema took him to the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Here he studied film direction and cinematography. He further studied photography under Bhupendra Karia in India and the U.S. and studied cinematography under master Laszlo Kovacs in the U.S. He also studied video production at Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.