Kaul gradually acquired a reputation of being cerebral and pretentious to the point of being termed a pseudo. Although there have been many instances of crowds staging group walk outs or dozing through screenings of his masterworks, a few instances claim to have incited mob violence addressed directly at the director while he was present at the screening.
It is with immense difficulty that one comes to terms with the fact that the great Indian film artist of our time, Mani Kaul is no more. Kaul was one of the few film makers functioning outside of the contours of the narrative parallel cinema and was perhaps the most significant amongst directors in India to produce a full-fledged aesthetic discourse around his practice.
Born in Jodhpur on Christmas, 1944, Kaul studied filmmaking at the Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii) under the tutelage of the illustrious Ritwik Kumar Ghatak. However after...
It is with immense difficulty that one comes to terms with the fact that the great Indian film artist of our time, Mani Kaul is no more. Kaul was one of the few film makers functioning outside of the contours of the narrative parallel cinema and was perhaps the most significant amongst directors in India to produce a full-fledged aesthetic discourse around his practice.
Born in Jodhpur on Christmas, 1944, Kaul studied filmmaking at the Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii) under the tutelage of the illustrious Ritwik Kumar Ghatak. However after...
- 7/7/2011
- by Devdutt Trivedi
- DearCinema.com
A Mani Kaul Memorial Meeting will be organized by Osian at the India International Centre in New Delhi, on July, 9, Saturday at 6 pm.
Kaul worked as the Creative Director of the Film House at Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art. He also took over as the director of Osian’s-Cinefan Film Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema in 2009.
“Indian New-Wave” filmmaker Mani Kaul passed away on July 6 at his Delhi residence, after a prolonged illness. His body was cremated the same day at Lodhi Road Crematorium.
Kaul has to his credit films like Uski Roti (1969), Ashad Ka Ek Din (1971), Duvidha (1973),Satab Se Uthata Admi (1976), Ghashiram Kotwal (1979), Dhrupad (1982), Mati Manas (1984), Siddheshwari (1989), Nazar (1989), Idiot (1991) and Naukar Ki Kameez (1999).
Kaul worked as the Creative Director of the Film House at Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art. He also took over as the director of Osian’s-Cinefan Film Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema in 2009.
“Indian New-Wave” filmmaker Mani Kaul passed away on July 6 at his Delhi residence, after a prolonged illness. His body was cremated the same day at Lodhi Road Crematorium.
Kaul has to his credit films like Uski Roti (1969), Ashad Ka Ek Din (1971), Duvidha (1973),Satab Se Uthata Admi (1976), Ghashiram Kotwal (1979), Dhrupad (1982), Mati Manas (1984), Siddheshwari (1989), Nazar (1989), Idiot (1991) and Naukar Ki Kameez (1999).
- 7/7/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A still from Naukar ki Kameez
One of the greatest names redolent of the “Indian New Wave” in cinema passed away; leaving behind a rich cinematic legacy, and a trail of memories. Friends, associates, students and cinema lovers are mourning Mani Kaul’s death alike.
Vinod Kumar Shukla is a well-known writer in Hindi; Pankaj Sudir Mishra acted in Kaul’s film Naukar ki Kameez and is now a creative director for television; and Gurwinder Singh is a filmmaker who assisted Mani Kaul in one of his workshops at the Ftii. Three of them, who have been associated with Mani Kaul at various points in their lives, reminisce…
He wanted to make a film on my book “Deewar Mein Ek Khirkee Rahati Thi”: Vinod Kumar Shukla
I met Mani Kaul for the first time when he had come to Bhopal for the launch of Satah Se Uthta Aadmi which...
One of the greatest names redolent of the “Indian New Wave” in cinema passed away; leaving behind a rich cinematic legacy, and a trail of memories. Friends, associates, students and cinema lovers are mourning Mani Kaul’s death alike.
Vinod Kumar Shukla is a well-known writer in Hindi; Pankaj Sudir Mishra acted in Kaul’s film Naukar ki Kameez and is now a creative director for television; and Gurwinder Singh is a filmmaker who assisted Mani Kaul in one of his workshops at the Ftii. Three of them, who have been associated with Mani Kaul at various points in their lives, reminisce…
He wanted to make a film on my book “Deewar Mein Ek Khirkee Rahati Thi”: Vinod Kumar Shukla
I met Mani Kaul for the first time when he had come to Bhopal for the launch of Satah Se Uthta Aadmi which...
- 7/6/2011
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Filmmaker Mani Kaul (67) passed away in Delhi this morning, at about 1 am, after prolonged illness. The cremation will take place at Lodhi Road Crematorium, New Delhi at 4 pm.
Mani Kaul’s debut film Uski Roti (1969) is known to have paved way for the ‘New Indian Cinema’ or the Indian New Wave. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India in 1966.
Ashad Ka Ek Din (1971), Duvidha (1973), Satab Se Uthata Admi (1976), Ghashiram Kotwal (1979), Dhrupad (1982), Mati Manas (1984), Siddheshwari (1989), Nazar (1989), Idiot (1991) and Naukar Ki Kameez (1999) are the other films the filmmaker made in his career.
Kaul passed away at his Delhi residence surrounded by his family and close friends.
Mani Kaul’s debut film Uski Roti (1969) is known to have paved way for the ‘New Indian Cinema’ or the Indian New Wave. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India in 1966.
Ashad Ka Ek Din (1971), Duvidha (1973), Satab Se Uthata Admi (1976), Ghashiram Kotwal (1979), Dhrupad (1982), Mati Manas (1984), Siddheshwari (1989), Nazar (1989), Idiot (1991) and Naukar Ki Kameez (1999) are the other films the filmmaker made in his career.
Kaul passed away at his Delhi residence surrounded by his family and close friends.
- 7/6/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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