Kumar Shahani is a noted Indian Film director, born in Larkana, Sindh (now in Pakistan), on December 7th 1940. After the Partition of India his family shifted to the city of Bombay (now Mumbai). He received a BA (hons) from the University of Bombay in Political Science and History and studied Screenplay Writing and Advanced Direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, where he was a student of Ritwik Ghatak. He also studied under the renowned Marxist historian D. D. Kosambi. He was awarded a French Government Scholarship for further studies in France, ^[1] where he studied at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) and assisted Robert Bresson on Une Femme Douce. He returned to India to make his first feature film Maya Darpan in 1972 and had to wait twelve years before he received funding to make his next full length feature film, Tarang. ^[2]

From 1976-1978 he held a Homi Bhabha Fellowship to study the epic tradition of the Mahābhārata, Buddhist iconography, Indian classical music and the Bhakti movement. ^[3]

Contents 1 Filmography 2 Awards 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Filmography

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• The Glass Pane (Diploma film, 1965)
• Manmad Passenger (short film, 1967)
• A Certain Childhood (short film, 1969)
• Rails for the World (short film, 1970)
• Object (short fim, 1971)
• Maya Darpan (1972)
• Fire in the Belly (short film, 1973)
• Our Universe (short film, 1976)
• Tarang (1984)
• Var Var Vari (short film, 1987)
• Khayal Gatha (1988)
• A Ship Aground (short film, 1989)
• Kasba (1990)
• Bhavantarana (1991)
• Char Adhyaya (1997)
• The Bamboo Flute (Birah Bharyo Ghar Aangan Kone) (2000)
• As the Crow Flies (2004)

[edit] Awards

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• Filmfare Critics Awards - Best Film (1972, 1990, 1991)
• The International Film Festival of Rotterdam - FIPRESCI Award (1990)
• Prince Claus Award (1998)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Kumar Shahani at the Internet Movie Database

• The museum as a refuge for film: the case for Kumar Shahini's epic cinema at Indian Auteur