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Indian Documentary Filmmakers
This is a list of notable documentary filmmakers from India arranged in alphabetical order. : A * A. K. Chettiar * Aarti Shrivastava * Akanksha Damini Joshi * Amudhan R P * Anand Patwardhan * Anwar Jamal * Aparna Sanyal * Arun Chadha * Ashvin Kumar * Shah Alam (filmmaker) B * Biju Toppo C * C. S. Venkiteswaran * Chalam Bennurkar D * Debalina Majumder * Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj * Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar * Dinesh D'Souza E * Ezra Mir F * Faiza Ahmad Khan G * Gauhar Raza * Gopal Menon * Sonali Gulati H * Harjant Gill J * Jagat Murari K * KP SASI, K P SASI * K. Bikram Singh * K. M. Chaitanya * Kabir Khan (director), Kabir Khan L *Lalit Vachani *Leena Manimekalai *Lubna Yusuf M * M. F. Husain * Maga.Tamizh Prabhagaran * Mazhar Kamran * Mike Pandey * Mira Nair * Mrinmoy Bhowmick * Meghnath N * Nakul Singh Sawhney * Nandan Saxena * Nisha Pahuja * Nishtha Jain * Nirmal Baby Varghese P * Pan Nalin * Pankaj Butalia * Paromita Vohra * Prakash Jha * Parvez Sharma *Poorva Din ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documentary Film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception hat remainsa practice without clear boundaries". Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", lasted one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolved to become longer in length, and to include more categories. Some examples are educational, observational and docufiction. Documentaries are very informative, and are often used within schools as a resource to teach various principles. Documentary filmmakers have a responsibility to be truthful to their vision of the world without intentionally misrepresenting a topic. Social-media platforms (such as YouTube) have provided an avenue for the growth of the documentary-film genre. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ezra Mir
Ezra Mir (26 October 1903 – 7 March 1993) (fl. 1924–1993) was an Indian film-maker, known for his documentary films. Mir changed his Jewish birth name, Edwyn Meyers, to Ezra Mir because he felt his original name "lacked Indianness". After working originally as a stage actor, he moved to New York in 1924 and started working in film, first as an actor and then later as an editor. During this period he also made his first short film, ''The Symbolesque'' (1929). Returning to India, Mir began directing films based on Hindi theatre. He made his first full length film in this genre, ''Noorjehan'', for the Imperial Film Company in 1931, and subsequently ''Zarina'' and other films for the Sagar Movietone. He made a number of films for Madan Theatre Studios in the 1930s, and his most well-known work, ''Rickshawala'', was produced by Ranjit Movietone. He then set up his own studio, Everest Pictures, in 1939. During the 1940s, Mir joined the Film Advisory Board and began making docu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mazhar Kamran
Mazhar Kamran is an Indian film and documentary film director and cinematographer. Kamran graduated with a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, but because of his love for films he chose film making as a profession. He started his career as a cinematographer in the 1998 Ram Gopal Varma film Satya. Kamran studied cinematography from Film and Television Institute of India. Kamran's directorial debut Mohandas dealt with stolen identity. Filmography Director * Mohandas Cinematographer *Satya *Kaun *Tarkieb *Jhankaar Beats * Masti * Mohandas Documentary *''Ainie Apa'' Film on the eminent Urdu author Qurratulain Hyder for the archives of Sahitya Akademi The 30 minute film fuses Hyder's memories with her writings along with reflections from literary figures. Hyder is considered to be a trendsetter novelist in the world of Urdu literature. Her monumental work is ‘Aag Ka Darya’ which moves from 4BC to the post independence period. *''Lucknow Legacy of an E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maga
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Lubna Yusuf
Lubna or Lubná may refer to: Places Czech Republic *Lubná (Kroměříž District), a municipality and village in the Zlín Region *Lubná (Rakovník District), a municipality and village in the Central Bohemian Region *Lubná (Svitavy District), a municipality and village in the Pardubice Region Poland *Łubna, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland *Łubna, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland People *Lubna, an Arabic female given name *Lubna Agha, Pakistani artist *Lubna Azabal, Belgian actress * Lubna Jaffery, Norwegian politician *Lubna al-Hussein, Sudanese journalist * Lubna of Córdoba, 10th century poet * Lubna Olayan, Saudi businesswoman *Lubna Khalid Al Qasimi, first woman to hold a ministerial post in the United Arab Emirates *Lubna Salim, Indian theater and television actress Other *''Lubna'', transcribed Arabic for storax, the aromatic sap of the sweetgum tree used for making incense and perfume *Lubna, a fictional character from the graphic novel series RanXerox *Qays and Lubna, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leena Manimekalai
Leena Manimekalai is an Indian filmmaker, poet and an actor. Her works include five published poetry anthologies and a dozen films in genres, documentary, fiction and experimental poem films. She has been recognised with participation, mentions and best film awards in many international and national film festivals. Films and activism After a brief period as an assistant director with mainstream filmmakers and an intensive experience as a Television Producer and Anchor, she debuted in 2002 with the short documentary film ''Mathamma''. The 20-minute-long docu-fiction is about devoting girl children to the deity, a practice prevalent among the Arundhatiyar community in Mangattucheri village near Arakkonam, Chennai. Her other films too deal with the issues of the marginalised. ''Parai'' is a film on violence against Dalit women. She went on the road with her films across hundreds of villages serving her videos a tool for participatory dialogue with the masses on compelling issues. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lalit Vachani
Lalit Vachani is an Indian documentary filmmaker. Life Vachani studied at the St. Stephen's College, Delhi University and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a visiting lecturer at the Mass Communication Research Centre in Delhi from 1990 to 1998. He also taught courses on film production at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the Amherst College. He has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Media, Culture and History at the New York University in 1999, and a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute and the Lichtenberg-Kolleg in 2011–12. Vachani's films have received support from the Soros/Sundance Documentary Foundation, the Jan Vrijman Fund and the India Foundation for the Arts. Works * ''Recasting Selves'' (2019, 80 minutes). * ''An Ordinary Election'' (2015, 125 minutes). * ''Tales from Napa'' (2010, 26 minutes). * ''The Salt Stories'' (2008, 84 minutes), Winner of the Best documentary film, MIAAC 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kabir Khan (director)
Kabir Khan is an Indian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer who works in Hindi cinema. He started his career working in documentary films, and then made his feature film directorial debut in 2006 with '' Kabul Express''. He is best known for directing ''Ek Tha Tiger'' (2012) and '' Bajrangi Bhaijaan'' (2015). His latest film '' 83'' was released in (2021). Early life and background Khan was born to Rasheeduddin Khan, a Muslim Urdu Speaking father and Leela Narayan Rao, a Hindu Telugu-speaking mother. Rasheeduddin, who was a Pashtuns, Pathan hailing from Kaimganj in Farrukhabad district, Uttar Pradesh, was a nephew of Dr. Zakir Hussain (President of India – 1967 to 1969) and a communist politician favored by Indira Gandhi as a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha at a relatively young age, in the early 1970s. He was also a professor of political science, and in the early 1970s, he became one of the founding professors of Jawaharlal Nehru University. His sister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KP SASI
Karuvannur Puthanveettil Sasi (Malayalam: കെ. പി. ശശി; 14 March 1958 – 25 December 2022) was an Indian film director and cartoonist from Bengaluru. Life and career Sasi's father K. Damodaran (25 February 1912 – 3 July 1976) was a Marxist theoretician and writer and one of the founder leaders of the Communist Party of India. He started working as a cartoonist while being a student at JNU during the late seventies. He started experimenting with films on 8mm during the early eighties. His documentaries include "A Valley Refuses to Die", "We Who Make History", "Living in Fear", "In the Name of Medicine" and "Voices from a Disaster", ''Fabricated!'', ''America America'', ''Resisting Coastal Invasion'' and ''Development at Gunpoint''. His feature films include ''Ilayum Mullum'', on the social and psychological violence on women in Kerala. ''Ek Alag Mausam'' (A Different Season) (Hindi: एक अलग मौसम) is a 2003 Hindi language movie directed by Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jagat Murari
Jagat Murari (5 October 1924 – 13 April 2007) was a distinguished Indian people, Indian Documentary film, documentary filmmaker, known well for his contributions to Indian cinema as a film producer, producer, Film director, director and, above all, educator. He played a pioneering role in a number of key film institutions in India, including the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), the National Film Archive of India (NFAI), and the Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF). Murari is well remembered for nurturing young, talented students as head of Film and Television Institute of India, FTII, Pune between 1962 and 1971, many of whom are now well known names in the Bollywood industry, including Jaya Bhaduri, Shabana Azmi, Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Subhash Ghai. Life and career Filmmaker Murari earned a Masters in Physics at Patna University and then, feeling that his background in physics would be useful in cinema, he obtained a Masters in Cinema in 1947 from the Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harjant Gill
Harjant Gill is an Indian documentary filmmaker and teaches visual anthropology at Towson University. His films explore topics related to gender, sexuality, religion and belonging in India and among Indians in diaspora. Personal life Gill was born in Chandigarh, India; grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, California; and now lives in Washington, D.C. ) , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from top left: the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, United States Capitol, Logan Circle, Jefferson Memorial, White House, Adams Morgan, Na ... Filmography Sent Away Boys(2016) * Mardistan (documentary) (Macholand) (2014)Roots of Love (2011)ref name=":0" />Lot's Wife (2008) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonali Gulati
Sonali Gulati is an Indian American independent filmmaker, feminist, grass-roots activist, and educator. Gulati grew up in New Delhi, India. Her mother, a teacher and textile designer, raised her independently, getting single custody for her at a young age. Sonali settled in the United States of America at age 20. She has made several films that have screened at over five hundred film festivals worldwide. Her films have screened at venues such as the Hirshhorn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and at film festivals such as the Margaret Mead Film Festival, the Black Maria Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, and BlackStar Film Festival. She has an MFA in Film & Media Arts from Temple University, and a BA in Critical Social Thought from Mount Holyoke College. She is currently a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University's Department of Photography & Film. Sonali gave birth to son Rohan Jhaveri with partner Geeta Jhaveri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
