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Kumar Shahani
Indian film director · India · On the map · Directors · Lived 1940 to 2024 · aged 83
Kumar Shahani was an Indian film director and screenwriter, best known for his parallel cinema films Maya Darpan (1972), Tarang (1984), Khayal Gatha (1989) and Kasba (1990). His films won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Film in 1972, 1990 and 1991.
Kumar Shahani is read about 17 times a day, in 10 languages.
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Celluloid ManFilm2007ChhapakhanaFilm, Director, Writer2004As the Crow FliesFilm, Director, Writer1997
Char AdhyayFilm, Director, Writer1991
ImmanenceFilm, Director, Writer1988A Ship AgroundFilm, Director, Writer1986
Var Var VariFilm, Director1983A Memoir of the FutureFilm, Director, Writer1976Our UniverseFilm, Director, Writer1973Fire in the BellyFilm, Director, Writer1972
Maya DarpanFilm, Director, Writer1970Rails for the WorldFilm, Director, Writer1969A Certain ChildhoodFilm, Director, Writer1966
The Glass PaneFilm, Director, Writer1940Born7 December 1940People around Kumar
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Due to his dedication to formalism, and with the reputation of his first feature - Maya Darpan being considered among Indian cinema's first formalist films - critics and film enthusiasts often associated him with filmmakers such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andrei Tarkovsky and Jacques Rivette. He was also known as a teacher at his alma mater, the Film and Television Institute of India, and as a theorist of cinema. His book of 51 essays Kumar Shahani: The Shock of Desire and Other Essays, was edited by Ashish Rajadhyaksha and published by Tulika Books in 2015.
