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Mani Kaul
Indian film director of Hindi films (1944-2011) · India · On the map · Directors · Died at 66
Mani Kaul was an Indian director of Hindi films and a figure in Indian parallel cinema. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) where he was a student of Ritwik Ghatak and later became a teacher.
Mani Kaul is read about 66 times a day, in 18 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 19 September 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
The Story of Film: An OdysseySeries, 20112005A Monkey's RaincoatFilm, Director2000BojhFilm, Director1996
Danish Girls Show EverythingFilm, Director1994
Erotic TalesSeries, Director1991
IdiotSeries, Director, Creator
NazarFilm, 1991Director, Writer1990
SiddheshwariFilm, Director, Writer1985
Mati ManasFilm, Director, Writer1981
Desert of a Thousand LinesFilm, Director1977
ChitrakathiFilm, Director1975
The Indian Woman - An Historical AssessmentFilm, Director1973
DuvidhaFilm, Director, Producer1971
One Day Before the Rainy SeasonFilm, Director, Writer1969Sara AkashFilm, Amar Thakur1967
6:40 PMFilm, Director, Writer1965
In Search of GodFilm1944Born25 December 1944People around Mani
Close ties
Shah Rukh Khan Mani directed Idiot (1992)
Shekhar Kapur Mani directed Nazar (1991)
Sofie Gråbøl Mani directed Danish Girls Show Everything (1996)
Basu Chatterjee Produced Sara Akash (1969)
Anu Aggarwal Mani directed The Cloud Door (1995)
Astrid Henning-Jensen Mani directed Danish Girls Show Everything (1996)
Mark Cousins Directed The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
Sanne Salomonsen Mani directed Danish Girls Show Everything (1996)- Bharath Gopi Mani directed Arising from the Surface (1980)
Regina Ziegler Produced The Cloud Door (1994)
Ayub Khan-Din Mani directed Idiot (1992)
Filmography 31
49 credits on file
Television 3
Awards
About this person
Starting his career with Uski Roti (1969), which won him the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie, he went on to win four of them in all. He won the National Film Award for Best Direction in 1974 for Duvidha and later the National Film Award for his documentary film Siddheshwari in 1989.
