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Jyoti Sarup (born 20 August 1954 in New Delhi) is a National Award winning Indian film/serial director [1] [2] and producer, most known for directing the television series, Buniyaad , and films like Chorni (1982) and Bub (2001) .
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Jyoti Sarup (born 20 August 1954 in New Delhi) is a National Award winning Indian film/serial director [1] [2] and producer, most known for directing the television series, Buniyaad , and films like Chorni (1982) and Bub (2001) .
An engineer from Govt Engineering College Ujjain, by education, he received a Diploma from NSD and FTII for Acting. He came to Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1978 to become an actor. Not belonging to a film background, he had to start from scratch. He started off as a Chief Assistant Director to Late Mr. Ramanand Sagar.
After acting in a few films & television serials and being the Chief Assisting to a few directors of that time, e.g.: Late Shri Atma Ram and Late Shri Shakti Samata, he found himself more suited behind the camera. He therefore started concentrating more on film and TV direction. His break as an individual director came from a Telefilm with Shekhar Suman and then he directed and acted in the Inspector Navin Mohan series of films, 90 minutes each with Navin Nischole and Mohan Gokhale and the Tele film Sandhya Chayya with Shriram Lagoo, Sulbha Deshpande etc.
This tele film, Sandhya Chayya, got him the lifetime Chance for being the Episode Director of G. P. Sippy's famous TV serial Buniyaad. Since then he has Directed around 38 projects, from which & in one has also got the prestigious National Film Award, thus becoming the First Person to get a National Award for a Kashmiri Film, Bub. It was a Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration which was made after 38 years, in Kashmir.
He has also worked as the Head of the Production, with Sony TV also and brought it up from All India rating No. 9 to No. 2. and various other channels and production houses. He is an expert in live events and started this trend from "Lata Mangeshkar Live" when he was in Sony TV.
He has written few books too, one being on The Art of Acting, Published and another a fiction novel The KING of the film Jungle (published soon).
Recently, he has worked in a, Two Oscar Award winning film, An Inconvenient Truth in which he edited the 96 minutes long film to 36 minutes, for Indian audiences, and he was the Dubbing Director of this film too, in Hindi. The Narrator of this film is Nobel Prize Winner Al Gore the Ex Vice-President of USA. He has also done two short films on Environment, Energising India and Toxic Trespass.
Now he is preparing for another TV Serial of 26 episodes, Deepak Phir Bhi Jalta Raha and after this directing a feature film. Then he is going to producing a feature film Ajaey, for his son Kuber Sarup, to be the Director.
Current assignments:
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