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Professor Shonkur Kandokarkhana Professor Shonkur Kandokarkhana ("Professor Shonku's Deeds") is a Professor Shanku series book written by Satyajit Ray and published by Ananda Publishers in 1970. Ray wrote the stories on Professor Shanku in Bengali magazine Sandesh and Anandamela. This book is a collection of seven of Shonku stories.
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Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray (Bengali: সত্যজিৎ রায় , ] ; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker and author, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali Brahmo family which was prominent in the field of arts and literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film "Bicycle Thieves" (1948) during a visit to London.
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Sohanlal Sohanlal (സോഹൻലാൽ) is an Indian film director and writer, based in Kerala.
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Contemporary Indian Sculpture Contemporary Indian Sculpture is a 1987 Bengali documentary film directed and written by Buddhadev Dasgupta. It is a documentary on Indian sculpture.
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Shahidul Islam Khokon Shahidul Islam Khokon (15 May 1957 – 4 April 2016) was a Bangladeshi filmmaker and producer.
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Odessa Sathyan Cheeram Veetti Sathyan (10 October 1957 – 19 August 2014), popularly known as Odessa Sathyan was an Indian documentary filmmaker and social activist, known for his involvement in the naxal movements of the seventies in Kerala and his association with "Odessa Collective", a people's film movement which was founded by the noted Malayalam filmmaker, John Abraham. He received the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi award, for his musical documentary "Balikurup", a film on Malayalam poet, A. Ayyappan.
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Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan (born 8 October) is an Indian film director and screenwriter, who is most known for his award winning and internationally acclaimed film "Lahore".
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Shashanka Ghosh Shashanka Ghosh is an Indian filmmaker. As a director, he is known for small budget films with powerful performances and a strong story line. As a writer, he penned the story for Aisa Bhi Hota Hai and Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II. His other works include Quick Gun Murugan and Mumbai Cutting.
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N. Chandra N. Chandra or Chandrashekhar Narvekar (born 4 April 1952) is an Indian producer, writer and director, known for gritty realism, in his early dark and loud films such as "Ankush", "Pratighaat", "Tezaab" and "Narsimha" (1991). Chandra also made the successful but critically scorned "Style" and its sequel "Xcuse Me".
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Garin Nugroho Garin Nugroho Riyanto (born 6 June 1961), better known as Garin Nugroho, is an award-winning Indonesian film director.
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Utpal Borpujari Utpal Borpujari is a National Film Award winning film critic and documentary filmmaker. He holds an M.Tech degree in Applied Geology from the Indian Institute of Technology (Roorkee). His films have been invited to a variety of international film festivals.
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Sachin Bhowmick Sachin Bhowmick (Bengali: শচীন ভৌমিক ; 17 July 1930 – 12 April 2011) was an Indian Hindi film writer and director. Writing was his main work and he wrote stories or screenplays for over 94 films. He was also a regular contributor to "Ultorath", a Bengali magazine on cinema. Due to the Bengali pronunciation of his surname Bhaumick we will find his surname spelled as Bhowmick in numerous sites.
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Madan Gopal Singh Madan Gopal Singh (b 1950, Amritsar) is an Indian composer, singer, lyricist, actor, screenwriter, film theorist, editor and polyglot. He is currently Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi while on leave from Satyawati College (Evening Classes), where he taught English literature. Son of well-known Punjabi poet Harbhajan Singh, Madan Gopal Singh has written and lectured extensively on cinema, art and cultural history besides performing the world over as a singer with his ensemble "Chaar yaar".
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Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar (1909–1971) was an Indian writer and documentary film maker. He is most well known as the author of an eight-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi, titled "Mahatma: Life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi".
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Karan Johar Karan Johar (born 25 May 1972), often informally referred to as KJo, is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, costume designer, actor and television personality who is primarily known for his work in Hindi films. He is the son of Hiroo Johar and the acclaimed producer Yash Johar.
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P. Venu P. Venu (Malayalam: പി. വേണു , 8 November 1940 – 25 May 2011) was an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter with over 20 films to his credit. His directorial venture "Udhyogastha" in 1967 was the first ever multi-starrer film of South India. His work in Malayalam cinema was significant and most influential, covering all themes and genres over a career spanning 40 years. One of his most recognized film "C.I.D. Nazir" in 1971, revolutionized movie-making in the investigative genre in Malayalam cinema. Following the commercial and critical success of this film, he came up with two more in the series - "Taxi Car" in 1972 and Prethangalude Thazhvara in 1973, which were recognized as the first investigative sequels in the history of Malayalam cinema. From the late 60s to the 90s he continued to make films and then decided to take a break to devote more time to his family. His last film "Parinamam (The Change)" in 2003 won an honour for Malayalam cinema, winning the Best Screenplay Award at Ashdod International Film Festival held in Israel. In 2005 he was bestowed with the "Kala Prathiba" (Icon of Creative Arts) Award by the Kerala Film Critics Association for his immense contributions to Malayalam cinema. He was also an active member of "MACTA" (Malayalam Cine Technicians Association). He published his book titled "Udyogastha Muthal" (meaning ‘From Udyogastha Onwards’) in 2010 reminiscing his life as a filmmaker and his experiences in the film industry.
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Apurba Kishore Bir Apurba Kishore Bir (born 1948), also known as A. K. Bir, is an Indian film cinematographer, screenwriter and director. An alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, he worked in various Ad-films and documentaries before making his feature-film debut. He won the National Film Award for Best Cinematography for "27 Down", his debut film. His directional debut "Adi Mimansa" won the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration. Bir's other directional ventures "Lavanya Preeti" and "Baaja" were bestowed with the National Film Award for Best Children's Film. As of 2014, he has won nine National Film Awards—including three for Best Cinematography—and is one of the directors of National Film Development Corporation of India.
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Carlos Rendón Zipagauta Carlos Rendón Zipagauta (Cali, 29 September 1955) is a Colombian-Belgian documentary filmmaker. Rendón Zipagauta studied film and screenwriting in Belgium, where he lived for 16 years. He began as assistant then co-director to Jean Christophe Lamy. He returned to Colombia to shoot documentaries. His 1993 film "Nukak Makú", about the indigenous Nukak peoples, won festival prizes in France and Belgium enabling also EU grants to make further documentaries.
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Muqeem Khan Muqeem Khan (Urdu: ‎ ) (born 1968) is the first Pakistani who started working in the Hollywood visual effects industry in 1996. He is an animator, artist, interaction designer, percussionist, filmmaker and academician. As a student at National College of Arts (NCA), Muqeem developed passion for computer graphics nearly twenty-five years ago in his early student life by doing some compositions and screen credits in BASIC language on IBM XT, ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 computers.
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Sudeep Sudeep Sanjeev (born 2 September 1973), known mononymously as Sudeep, is an Indian actor, filmmaker and television presenter, known primarily for his work in Kannada cinema, in addition to appearances in a handful of Telugu, Hindi and Tamil films.
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Shankar Mahadevan Shankar Mahadevan (born 3 March 1967) is a composer and playback singer who is part of the Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy composing trio team for many Indian films. He is a four-time winner of the National Award: three times for Best Male Playback Singer and once for Best Music Director. Mahadevan founded the Shankar Mahadevan Academy, which provides online music lessons in Indian music for students worldwide. In 2015, he made his debut as an actor in the Marathi film "Katyar Kaljat Ghusli", a film adaptation of a 1960 stage classic by the same name.
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Shahram Mokri Shahram Mokri (Persian: شهرام مکری‎ ‎ ) (born 17 August 1978) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He graduated from Soore University with a Bachelor of Film and Television in Directing.