- Kaustav Sinha comes from a Bengali family; his surname "Sinha" is also pronounced as "Singha" meaning Lion in Bengali. He belongs to Kayastha sub-caste.
- Kaustav Sinha founded the Digital Matte Painting freelance/remote visual effects (VFX) company/studio, the "Matte-Effect" in December 2009. In 2016, the company was established as a Limited Liability Company (LLC), known as the "Matte-Effect LLC", of which, Kaustav is the founder, CEO and owner.
- Kaustav Sinha is the founder, casting director and owner of the independent casting company, known as the "Kaustav Sinha Casting" (KSC). The company is dedicated to catering to the casting needs of English language feature films, short films, videos and music videos.
- Kaustav wrote a horror story, titled "A Hut In The Middle Of The Forest" in 2004. It is been converted into a horror feature film.
- Kaustav owns 7 freelance companies, namely "Matte-Effect", "Reminiscence Entertainment", "Reminiscence Records", "VFX Matrimony", "DreamStar Talent Agency", "Gore-Fest" & "CG Universe".
- Kaustav Sinha is the first person in the world to conceive the idea/concept of using metallic gears as a weapon of a serial killer character in his horror/thriller slasher film, the "Gear Man".
- Kaustav Sinha was the founder, ex-moderator & ex-forum leader of the popular monthly digital matte painting contest, the "CGTantra Digital Matte Painting Challenges" hosted on India's #1 computer graphics forum, CGTantra; he left the voluntary job at the CGTantra after 12 months (December 2008 - November 2009). Kaustav now conducts digital matte painting contests in his own computer graphics forum, CG Universe, known as the "CG Universe Digital Matte-Painting Challenges"; the contests commenced since 2011.
- Kaustav has launched an interview website, known as "With Stars" in 2013; here he conducts interviews of mainly Hollywood celebrities. He has taken the interviews of The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit actor, Jed Brophy, of the Hollywood digital matte painter, Alp Altiner & of the Battle Los Angeles concept artist, Paul Gerrard. Apart from this, Kaustav has in the past taken the interviews of such eminent personalities such as Scott Ross (founder & former CEO of Digital Domain), Frederic St-Arnaud (digital matte painting supervisor) & Philip Straub (illustrator).
- Kaustav Sinha has been using the signature of "Let's Paint The World With Peace!" since 2008 in online forums.
- Kaustav likes watching wrestling (WWE/WWF) since when he was a kid; his favorite wrestlers are Triple H (Paul Levesque/HHH), Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy. His dream is to make a feature film with HHH, and make a feature film on the legendary technical wrestler, Chris Benoit.
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