Cinecaste, Filmmaker,
TV Producer and Scriptwriter
Date and Place of
Birth:
12 August, 1933, Srinagar, Kashmir
Harmony Award:
For Electronic
Media 1995, New Delhi
Best Original
Screen Play:
For 'Dharma Kshetra'
(NFDC Award l986)
Other Awards:
National Award:
Best Hindi film
Filmfare Critics Award - Best Director
Two Awards in Annonay (France) Award
Yug Shree Award/ Best Television Film
VIDEO AND TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS
Doordarshan Directorate General, New
Delhi
TURNING
POINT: Commissioned serial 199l -1996
English, Hindi, Kashmiri, Bengali, Oriya, Malyalam,
Kannada, Tamil and Gujrati versions:
Co-Produced by Doordarshan and Arun Kaul Productions.
Kashmir
File weekly magazine Programme
In Hindi for DD-l, DD-INDIA, Regional Channel: 85
episodes.
In English for DD-CNNI 60 episodes.
Kashmir
File is in the competitive Section, Geneva Festival,
North South Media Encounter: May '98.
50 years of Indian Independence:
Doordarshan
Metamorphosis- India,
(in 4 parts) fictional Short features.
Department of Science and
Technology (Govt. of India):
Thrombinase in Betacam for NCSTC
'Our Herbs: Tulsi' for NCSTC
No Smoking: for NCSTC
Comet: Dhoomketu, Hindi for Vigyan Prasar
Indira Gandhi National Centre for
the Arts:
Redefining Art
60 minute documentary
News and Current Affairs: DD
Saga of Kamani Steel Workers
Constitution and you
Upra - the rootless (Documentary on Laxman Mane)
School that Jai Vakil built
Geneva Human Rights Commission - 1996
Beijing Conference - 1996
Musheer-ul-Haq
3 News stories on Chrar - e - Sharif
3 Stories on Amarnath Yatra tragedy
Documentaries on Art and Culture
(for DD):
NARI NARAYANI Five celebrated women
Dr Usha Mehta, Dr Kapila Vatsyayan, Mrs Ela Bhatt,
Mrs Gul Bardhan, and Ms Lailu Writer.
Museum and Museology: (for DD)
Eight documentaries dealing with the cultural heritage
preserved at Mathura, Gwalior, Roopankar (Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal), National
Museum (New Delhi), Mani Bhavan - Gandhi Sangrahalaya (Bombay), Prince of Wales
Museum (Bombay), and Bhau Daji Lad Museum (Bombay).
Documentaries for other agencies:
Documentary for Productivity Council
Documentary on Hindustan Steel
Indian Science Congress - Goa '92
Congress on Traditional Science and Technology '93
Drip Irrigation for IPCL
Video Documentaries for other
Channels:
Prahari
Kitne Aurangzeb
Aasteen Ka Saanp
G.R. Santosh
Kritigyata Yatra
Heritage of Kashmir (3 parts)
Collage 75
Freedom
From Fear ? (Festival South Asia 1997)
(Competitive Section: MIFF - 1998)
Kashmir - a perspective (Global meet
London/ Geneva)
As Director/Producer of Feature
Films: DIKSHA
(The
initiation): Hindi film based on Kannada story by Dr U.R. Annanta Murty,
Eastmancolour, 35 mm, 130 minutes, 1991
Panorama of Indian Cinema, Bangalore,
1992:
Selected by Directorate of Film Festival's National Jury
for inclusion in the Festival.
BEST INDIAN FILM OF 1991: Selected
by an All India Jury appointed by M.P. Film Development Corporation Ltd.,
Bhopal. Cash Award of Rs 51,000 and a Trophy.
BEST HINDI FILM, NATIONAL AWARD, 1991:
Rajat Kamal (Silver Medals) for both the Director and Producers, and a total
cash award of Rs 30,000.
'FILMFARE' CRITICS AWARD, 1991:
Best Directed Film.
'YUGSHREE' AWARD, 1991: Best
Directed Film for Television.
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS:
Fukuoka Film Festival, Japan:
Inaugural film of the Festival.
Montreal Film Festival, Canada,
1992.
Haifa Film Festival, Israel,
1992.
Annonay International Film
Festival, France, 1993:
Won two major awards: Le Prix du Public and La
Prix du Counseil General de L'Ardeche, and a cash prize of FF 20,000.
PAKSHA, IN HINDI FOR MPFDC/MP-Madhyam,
Bhopal (under production).
As Producer:
Ek Adhuri Kahani in Hindi,
1972.
Directed by Mrinal Sen. The film was invited by Berlin
Film Festival and shown in the category Internationales Forum des Jungen
Films - 1973 as a film for the closing ceremony.
Bhuvan Shome in Hindi,
associate producer with Mrinal Sen.
Andhi Gali in Hindi,
executive producer of this film directed by Buddhadeb Das Gupta.
As Scriptwriter /Co-Scriptwriter (Films
and TV):
Dharma-Kshetra, with Umesh
Kalbag, winning Best Original Script Award of NFDC.
Diksha,
a Hindi film based on Kannada short story by Dr U.R. Annanta Murty.
Mrigya, a Hindi film with
Mrinal Sen.
Ashwamedher Ghora,
Jointly with Shanker Bhattacharya.
Sampark, a Hindi film.
Kaal Chakra, a film in
Hindi.
Prakop, a film in Hindi.
Chandni, a Hindi film
directed and produced by Yash Chopra.
Ijazat, Lekin, Zevar,
three Hindi films with Gulzar.
Ghalib, serial in
association with Gulzar.
Noopur, a 13 part serial
by Hema Malini.
Karma Bhoomi, a 17 part
serial on Prem Chand's novel.
Khazana, a 6 part serial
by Yash Chopra.
Accreditation and Empanelment
Doordarshan Directorate General - both
as Director and Producer for documentary, science programme, and fiction.
Films Division, I&B
Ministry, Bombay.
DAVP, I&B Ministry, New
Delhi.
CIET/NCERT, New Delhi.
All India Council for Technical
Education, New Delhi.
Department of Science and
Technology. Govt. of India, New Delhi. NCSTC and Vigyan Prasar
Department of Culture, HRD
Ministry Govt. of India.
Ministry of Agriculture Govt. Of
India.
Ministry of Railways.
Department of Ocean Development,
GOI, New Delhi.
Ministry of Environment &
Forests, New Delhi.
Indian Council of Agricultural
Research, New Delhi.
All India Council for Technical
Education, New Delhi.
National Film Development
Corporation Ltd., Bombay.
MP Film Development Corporation
Ltd./ M.P. Madhyam, Bhopal.