Amshan Kumar is an Indian filmmaker and writer. He has won a

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for his documentary film '' Yazhpanan Thedchanamoorthy - Music beyond boundaries'' in the year 2015. This is a lone Tamil non-fiction film to win a National Award in the past 17 years prior to this award He is also a writer on films, his book '' Cinema Rasanai'' on film appreciation is being used as a textbook in many universities. His debut feature film '' Oruththi'' was selected for the 2003

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and was screened in the ''Indian Panorama'' section. His second feature film ''

Manusangada ''Manusangada'' (English title: We are Humans) is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language indie drama film directed by Amshan Kumar. The film is based on a true story about the signaling of the rise of Dalit struggles in contemporary India against long s ...

'' was screened in the 39th Cairo International Film Festival and also in the 48th International Film Festival of India (2017) in the Indian Panorama section. He lives in

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Career

Amshan Kumar has made more than twenty five documentaries including Badal Sircar`s Third Theatre, Modern Art in Tamil Nadu, Mangrove Forests, Nobel Laureate C.V.Raman, U.Ve.Saminatha Iyer, Tamil Poet Subramania Bharati and Manakkal S.Rangarajan. His first directorial feature film in Tamil Oruththi selected for was shown in Indian Panorama based on a short novel by the renowned writer

Ki. Rajanarayanan Rayangala Shri Krishna Raja Narayana Perumal Ramanujam Naicker (16 September 1923 – 17 May 2021), shortened to Ki. Rajanarayanan and popularly known by his Tamil initials as Ki. Ra., was an Indian Tamil language folklorist and acclaimed write ...

. It won the best film awards from

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and Tamil Association of New Jersey. His documentary on the Tavil Maestro Yazhpanam Thedchanmoorthy won the national award for the best arts/ cultural film in 2015. It is the first Tamil non-feature film to win a National Award in 17 years. His second feature film Manusangada was selected in the

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section of

, Goa and was the only Tamil film to be selected that year. The film had its world priemere in Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival and its International Premiere at the

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Filmography

*'' Oruththi'' (2003) *''

'' (2017)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kumar, Amshan Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Tamil film directors Tamil-language film directors 21st-century Indian film directors Indian documentary film directors Film directors from Tamil Nadu Artists from Tiruchirappalli Tamil screenwriters Screenwriters from Tamil Nadu