Shekhar Kapur is a British Indian film director, actor, and producer, known for his works in Hindi cinema and international cinema. Part of the Anand family, Kapur became known in Bollywood with his recurring role in the TV series Khandan in the mid-1980s and his directorial debut in the cult Bollywood film Masoom in 1983, which won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie for that year, before gaining widespread success with the science fiction film Mr. India (1987).
Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer and the winner of the 54th Jnanpith award, best known for his work in English fiction.
Bimal Roy was a Bengali Indian film director. He is particularly noted for his realistic and socialistic films such as Do Bigha Zamin, Parineeta, Biraj Bahu, Madhumati, Sujata, Parakh and Bandini, making him an important director of Hindi cinema. Inspired by Italian neo-realistic cinema, he made Do Bigha Zamin after watching Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948). His work is particularly known for his mise en scène which he employed to portray realism. He won a number of awards throughout his career, including eleven Filmfare Awards, two National Film Awards, and the International Prize of the Cannes Film Festival. Madhumati won 9 Filmfare Awards in 1958, a record held for 37 years.
Aparna Sen is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and actress who is known for her work in Bengali cinema. A leading actress of the late 1960s and 1970s she has received eight BFJA Awards, five for best actress, two for best supporting actress and one for lifetime achievement. She is the winner of nine National Film Awards and nine international film festival awards for her direction in films. She was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, by the government of India in 1987.
Teesri Kasam is a 1966 Hindi language drama film directed by Basu Bhattacharya. It is based on the short story Mare Gaye Gulfam, by the Hindi novelist Phanishwarnath Renu. The film stars Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman. The duo Shankar-Jaikishan composed the film's score. The film's cinematography is by Subrata Mitra. Dialogues are by Phanishwarnath Renu and the screenplay by Nabendu Ghosh.
Madhu Eravankara is a film director, critic, scholar, jury, teacher, and a writer. He was born in Eravankara in Alappuzha District, Kerala, India.
Kumaun University is a state university headquartered in Nainital, Uttarakhand, India. Kumaun University consists of three main campuses at Almora, Nainital and Bhimtal and 49 affiliated government colleges, as well as numerous affiliated private institutions.
Atanu Ghosh is a National Award winning filmmaker.
Podokkhep is a 2006 Bengali film by Suman Ghosh.
The 30th National Film Awards, presented by Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of Indian Cinema released in the year 1982. Ceremony took place in May 1983 and awards were given by then President of India, Giani Zail Singh.
The 44th National Film Awards, presented by Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of Indian Cinema released in the year 1996. The awards were announced on 6 May 1997, and presented in July.
The Handmaiden is a 2016 South Korean erotic psychological thriller film directed by Park Chan-wook and starring Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Ha Jung-woo and Cho Jin-woong. It is inspired from the novel Fingersmith by Welsh writer Sarah Waters, with the setting changed from Victorian era Britain to Korea under Japanese colonial rule.
Hyderabad Bengali Film Festival (HBFF) is a Bengali film festival in the city of Hyderabad and is being organized annually since 2014. The venue of the festival is the Prasad Film Preview Labs, Hyderabad. The first edition of the film festival was held in the year 2014. It is the only curated Bengali film festival in India.
Film Critics Circle of India (FCCI) is a society comprising notable film critics from all the major film producing states of India.
Siladitya Sen is an Indian film -critic, -analyst, -journalist, -jury member, based in Kolkata. He writes for the Bengali newspaper, Anandabazar Patrika.
Ashok Rane is a two-time National Award-winning film critic, the director of the Indian Film Academy, a professor of film studies for 35 years, film mentor, coorditator-Maharashtra Film and Stage Cultural Development Corporation, and an author of several books on cinema.
Shalini Shah is a National Film Award-winning filmmaker; a film faculty member at Kumaun University; and the artistic-director/co-founder of the first Kautik Student Film Festival (KSFF), Nainital, Uttrakhand.
Kautik Student Film Festival (KSFF) is a 3-day non-competitive all-India student film festival, introduced to Nainital, Uttarakhand, in the summer of 2017. In addition to students, it was attended by the who's who of that scenic hill station: theatre artistes, cinematographers, filmmakers, and state and union ministers.
Virendra Saini is a double National Film Award winner; the first as a cinematographer, and the second as a director. He has done the cinematography for quite a few acclaimed filmmakers, including Saeed Mirza
