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Habib Tanvir

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{{Short description|Indian actor}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Habib Tanvir
| image = Indian Writer Habib Tanvir.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Habib Tanvir at [[Prithvi Theatre]], [[Mumbai]]; November 2005
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1923|9|1}}
| birth_place = [[Raipur]], [[Central Provinces and Berar]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2009|6|8|1923|9|1}}
| death_place = [[Bhopal]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], [[India]]
| yearsactive = 1945–2009
| birth_name = Habib Ahmed Khan
| othername =
| occupation = Playwright, dramatist, poet, actor
| spouse = Moneeka Misra (2001-2005)
| children = {{ublist|Anna (b.1964<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/vantage/former-lover-differs-habib-tanvir-telling-their-relationship|title=A former lover differs with Habib Tanvir's telling of their relationship|last=Peck|first=Serena|website=The Caravan|language=en|access-date=2019-07-27}}</ref>)|Nageen (b. 1964)}}
| honours = Padma Shri (1983)
Padma Bhushan (2002)
| website = {{url|http://habibtanvir.org/}}
| footnotes =
}}

'''Habib Tanvir''' (1 September 1923 – 8 June 2009<ref name=":0" />) was one of the most popular Indian [[Urdu]], Hindi playwrights, a theatre director, poet and actor.<ref name=":0" /> He was the writer of plays such as, ''Agra Bazar'' (1954) and ''[[Charandas Chor]]'' (1975). A pioneer in [[Urdu]] and [[Hindi theatre]], he was most known for his work with [[Chhattisgarh]]i tribals, at the Naya Theatre, a theatre company he founded in 1959 in [[Bhopal]]. He went on to include indigenous performance forms such as ''nacha'', to create not only a new theatrical language, but also milestones such as ''Charandas Chor'', ''Gaon ka Naam Sasural, Mor Naam Damad'' and ''Kamdeo ka Apna Basant Ritu ka Sapna''.<ref>[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mumbai/Habib-Tanvir-makes-his-final-exit/articleshow/4633305.cms Habib Tanvir makes his final exit] ''[[The Times of India]]'', 9 June 2009.</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zo5os6d0rvMC&pg=PA42&dq=Habib+Tanvir&lr=&as_brr=0#PPA42,M1 Contemporary Theatre ] ''McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of world drama'', by Stanley Hochman, McGraw-Hill, inc. Published by Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG, 1984. {{ISBN|0-07-079169-4}}. ''Page 42''.</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aQqOKWmjdQUC&pg=PA1330&dq=Habib+Tanvir&lr=&as_brr=0 Habib Tanvir] ''The Columbia encyclopedia of modern drama'', by Gabrielle H. Cody, Evert Sprinchorn. Columbia University Press, 2007. {{ISBN|0-231-14424-5}}. ''Page 1330''</ref>

For him, true "theatre of the people" existed in the villages, which he strived to bring to the urban "educated", employing both folk performers as actors alongside urban actors.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=mLQaz-12Eo8C&pg=PA115&dq=Habib+Tanvir&lr=&as_brr=0#PPA115,M1 Habib Tanvir] ''Theatres of independence: drama, theory, and urban performance in India since 1947'', by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker. University of Iowa Press, 2005. {{ISBN|0-87745-961-4}}. ''Page 115''.</ref> He died on 8 June 2009 at Bhopal after a three-week-long illness.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090615001838/http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?a=jginEzajhga&title=Noted_playwright_Habib_Tanvir_passes_away&?vsv=smm/ Noted playwright Habib Tanvir passes away at 85] [[Sify.com]], 8 June 2009.</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8088751.stm Indian playwright Tanvir is dead] [[BBC News]], 9 June 2009.</ref> Upon his death, he was the last of pioneering actor-managers in [[Indian theatre]], which included [[Sisir Bhaduri]], [[Utpal Dutt]] and [[Prithviraj Kapoor]],<ref>[http://www.tehelka.com/story_main42.asp?filename=hub200609a_farewell.asp A Farewell To The Bard Of Bhopal] [[Tehelka]], Vol 6, Issue 24, Dated 20 June 2009.</ref> and often he managed plays with a mammoth cast, such as ''Charandas Chor'', which included an orchestra of 72 people on stage and ''Agra Bazaar'', with 52 people.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070522075908/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2007/05/05/stories/2007050501740100.htm Doyen holds forth] [[The Hindu]], 5 May 2007.</ref>

During his lifetime he won several national and international awards, including the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]] in 1969, [[Jawarharlal Nehru Fellowship]] in 1979, [[Padma Shri]]<ref name=":0" /> in 1983, [[Kalidas Samman]] 1990, [[List of Sangeet Natak Akademi fellows|Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship]] in 1996, and the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2002.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=July 21, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref> Apart from that he had also been nominated to become a member of the Upper House of Indian Parliament, the [[Rajya Sabha]] (1972–1978). His play ''[[Charandas Chor]]'' (Charandas, The Thief) won him the [[Edinburgh Fringe|Fringe Firsts Award]] at Edinburgh International Drama Festival in 1982,<ref>[http://www.mumbaitheatreguide.com/dramas/features/naya_theatre.asp Naya Theatre and Habib Tanvir]</ref> and in 2007, it was included in the [[Hindustan Times]]' list of 'India's 60 Best works since Independence which said : "an innovative dramaturgy equally impelled by Brecht and folk idioms, Habib Tanvir seduces across language barriers in this his all-time biggest hit about a Robin Hood-style thief."<ref>[http://www.hindustantimes.com/Mobile/Pages/StoryPage.aspx?ID=79c80f94-30eb-440b-bbea-04abbf526509&BC=Business-Corporate India's 60 best since Independence.]{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} 14 August 2007.</ref>

==Biography==

===Early life===
He was born in [[Raipur]], Chhattisgarh<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=स्पर्श भाग 2|publisher=NCERT|isbn=81-7450-647-0|location=New Delhi|pages=127|language=hi|chapter=कारतूस|chapter-url=http://ncertbooks.prashanthellina.com/class_10.Hindi.Sparsh/ch-17.pdf}}</ref> (erstwhile Madhya Pradesh) to Hafiz Ahmed Khan, who hailed from [[Peshawar]].

He passed his matriculation from Laurie Municipal High School, [[Raipur]],<ref name=":0" /> and later completed his B.A. from Morris College, [[Nagpur]] in 1944. Thereafter he studied M.A. for a year at [[Aligarh Muslim University]] .

Early in life, he started writing poetry using his pen name ''Takhallus''. Soon after, he assumed his name, Habib Tanvir.

===Career===
[[File:Khalid Abidi,Prof. Desnavi,Playwright Habib Tanvir.jpg|thumbnail|Khalid Abidi, Prof. Desnavi Playwright Habib Tanvir.]]
In 1945, he moved to Bombay, and joined [[All India Radio]] (AIR) Bombay as a producer. While in Bombay, he wrote songs for Urdu and Hindi films and even acted in a few of them. He also joined the [[Progressive Writers' Association]] (PWA) and became an integral part of [[Indian People's Theatre Association]] (IPTA) as an actor. Later, when most of the prominent IPTA members were imprisoned for opposing the British rule, he was asked to take over the organisation.

In 1954, he moved to New Delhi, and worked with Qudsia Zaidi's Hindustani Theatre, and also worked with Children's theatre, where he authored many plays. Later in the same year, he produced his first significant play ''Agra Bazar'' based on the works and times of the plebeian 18th-century Urdu poet, [[Nazir Akbarabadi]], an older poet in the generation of [[Mirza Ghalib]]. For this play he brought together local residents and folk artistes from [[Okhla]] village in Delhi and students of [[Jamia Millia Islamia]] creating a palette never seen before in Indian theatre. Additionally, the play was not staged in a confined space, rather a bazaar, a marketplace.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Beyond The Fourth Wall |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?250267 |author=Shama Zaidi |author-link=Shama Zaidi |date=22 June 2009|magazine=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]] }}</ref> After this, he continued to work with non-trained actors and folk artistes like the folk artists of Chhattisgarh.

===Stay in Europe===
In 1955, when he was in his 30s, Habib moved to England. There, he trained in Acting at [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts]] (RADA) <ref name=":0" />(1955) and in Direction at [[Bristol Old Vic Theatre School]] (1956). For the next two years, he travelled through Europe, watching various theatre activities. One of the highlights of this period, was his eight-month stay in [[Berlin]] in 1956, during which he got to see several plays of [[Bertolt Brecht]], produced by [[Berliner Ensemble]], just a few months after Brecht's death.<ref>[http://www.samarmagazine.org/archive/article.php?id=56 Habib Tanvir:samar, 2001] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070730170634/http://www.samarmagazine.org/archive/article.php?id=56 |date=30 July 2007 }}</ref> This proved to have a lasting influence on him, as in the coming years, he started using local idioms in his plays, to express trans-cultural tales and ideologies. This, over the years, gave rise to a "theatre of roots", which was marked by an utter simplicity in style, presentation and technique, yet remaining eloquent and powerfully experiential.

===Return to India===
A deeply inspired Habib returned to India in 1958 and took to directing full-time. He produced ''Mitti ki Gaadi'' a post-London play, based on [[Śudraka|Shudraka]]'s Sanskrit work, [[Mrichakatika]]. It became his first important production in [[Chhattisgarhi]]. This was the result of the work he had been doing since his return – working with six folk actors from Chhattisgarh. He went on to found "Naya Theatre", a theatre company in 1959.

In his exploratory phase, i.e. 1970–73, he broke free from one more theatre restriction – he no longer made the folk artistes, who had been performing in all his plays, speak Hindi. Instead, the artistes switched to Chhattisgarhi, a local language they were more accustomed to. Later, he even started experimenting with "[[Pandavani]]", a folk singing style from the region and temple rituals. This made his plays stand out amidst the gamut of plays which still employed traditional theatre techniques like blocking movements or fixing lights on paper. Spontaneity and improvisation became the hallmark of his new theatre style, where the folk artistes were allowed greater freedom of expression.

His next venture with Chhattisgarhi ''Nach'' style, saw another breakthrough in 1972, with a staging of the play titled ''Gaon Ka Naam Sasural, Mor Naam Damaad''. This was based on a comic folk tale, where an old man falls in love with a young woman, who eventually elopes with another young man.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050407220639/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2005/01/02/stories/2005010200570500.htm The Hindu, 2 January 2005]</ref>

By the time he produced his seminal play, ''[[Charandas Chor]]'' in 1975, the technique became popular. This play immediately established a whole new idiom in modern India theatre; whose highlight was ''Nach'' – a chorus that provided commentary through song. He also brought in [[Govind Ram Nirmalkar]], a noted Nacha artist who would later go on to win [[Padma Shri]] and [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]]s, to play the lead role.<ref name="Govind Ram Nirmalkar — Sangeet Natak Akademi profile">{{cite web|url=http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna-awards-2012/Citation/034-GobindRamNirmalkar.htm |title=Govind Ram Nirmalkar — Sangeet Natak Akademi profile |publisher=Sangeet Natak Akademi |date=2016 |access-date=February 12, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305191608/http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna-awards-2012/Citation/034-GobindRamNirmalkar.htm |archive-date=5 March 2016 }}</ref> Later, he collaborated with [[Shyam Benegal]], when he adapted the play to a feature-length film, by the same name, starring Smita Patil and Lalu Ram. He was awarded the prestigious [[Jawarharlal Nehru Fellowship]] in 1979 for research on ''Relevance of Tribal Performing Arts and their Adaptability to A changing Environment''.<ref>{{cite web| title = Official list of Jawaharlal Nehru Fellows (1969-present)|work = [[Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund]] | url = http://www.jnmf.in/flist.html }}</ref> In 1980, he directed the play ''Moti Ram ka Satyagraha'' for Janam ([[Jan Natya Manch]]) on the request of [[Safdar Hashmi]].

During his career, Habib has acted in over nine feature films, including [[Richard Attenborough]]'s film, ''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]'' (1982), ''Black and White'' and in a yet-to-be-released film on the Bhopal gas tragedy.

His first brush with controversy came about in the 1990s, with his production of a traditional Chhattisgarhi play about religious hypocrisy, ''Ponga Pandit''. The play was based on a folk tale and had been created by Chhattisgarhi theatre artists in the 1930s. Though he had been producing it since the sixties, in the changed social climate after the [[Babri Masjid]] demolition, the play caused quite an uproar amongst Hindu fundamentalists, especially the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), whose supporters disrupted many of its shows, and even emptied the auditoriums, yet he continued to show it all over.<ref>[http://www.countercurrents.org/comm-hariharan031103.htm Ponga Pandit controversy]</ref>

His Chhattisgarhi folk troupe, surprised again, with his rendition of [[Asghar Wajahat]]'s ''Jisne Lahore Nahin Dekhya'' in 1992. Then in 1993 came ''Kamdeo Ka Apna Basant Ritu Ka Sapna'', Tanvir's Hindi adaptation of Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.<ref>[http://sia.stanford.edu/india/tanvir.doc Traveling Shakespeares in India] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626114155/http://sia.stanford.edu/india/tanvir.doc |date=26 June 2007 }}</ref> In 1995, he was invited to the United States by the Chicago Actors Ensemble, where he wrote his only English language play, ''The Broken Bridge''. In 2002, he directed ''Zahareeli Hawa'', a translation of ''[[Bhopal (play)|Bhopal]]'' by the Canadian-Indian playwright Rahul Varma, based on the [[Bhopal disaster|Bhopal Gas Tragedy]]. During his illustrious career he brought works from all genres to stage, from ancient Sanskrit works by Shudraka, Bhasa, Vishakhadatta and Bhavabhuti; to European classics by Shakespeare, Molière and Goldoni; modern masters Brecht, Garcia, Lorca, Gorky, and Oscar Wilde; Tagore, Asghar Wajahat, Shankar Shesh, Safdar Hashmi, Rahul Varma, stories by Premchand, Stefan Zweig and Vijaydan Detha, apart from an array of Chhattisgarhi folk tales.

==Legacy==
In 2010, at the 12th [[Bharat Rang Mahotsav]], the annual theatre festival of [[National School of Drama]], Delhi, a tribute exhibition dedicated to life, works and theatre of Habib Tanvir and [[B.V. Karanth]] was displayed.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/theatre/article87544.ece|title=Saluting stalwarts|date=21 January 2010 |newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=2 April 2010}}</ref> The 13th [[Bharat Rang Mahotsav]] opened with an Assamese adaptation of his classic play ''[[Charandas Chor]]'', directed by Anup Hazarika, a NSD graduate.<ref>{{cite news |title=Chor dons a new colour |url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/theatre/article1089827.ece |newspaper=The Hindu |date=13 January 2011 }}</ref>

== Awards ==
He was the recipient of

# [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award|Sangeet Natak Akademy Award]](1969),
# [[Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship]](1979),
# [[List of Padma Shri award recipients (1980–1989)|Padma Shri]] (1983),
# [[List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1960–1969)|Padma Bhushan]](2002),

among other national and international awards during his lifetime.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hawk|first=Indian|title=Habib tanvir-mpositive.com|url=https://www.mpositive.in/tag/habib-tanvir-padma-shri-1983/}}</ref>

==Plays==
* ''Agra Bazar'' (1954)<ref name=":0" />
* ''Shatranj Ke Mohrey'' (1954)
* ''Lala Shoharat Rai'' (1954)
* ''Mitti Ki Gaadi'' (1958)
* ''Gaon Ke Naon Sasural, Mor Naon Damand'' (1973)
* ''Charandas Chor'' (1975)<ref name=":0" />
* ''Uttar Ram Charitra'' (1977)
* ''Bahadur Kalarin'' (1978)
* ''Ponga Pandit'' (1960s)<ref>[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/nilanjana-s-roy-habib-tanvirs-%3Ci%3Eaadmi-nama%3Ci%3E/360436/ Habib Tanvir's Aadmi Nama] [[Business Standard]], 9 June 2009.</ref>
* ''Ek Aurat Hypathia Bhi Thee'' (1980s)
* ''Jis Lahore Nai Dekhya'' (1990)
* ''Kamdeo ka Apna Basant Ritu ka Sapna'' (1993)
* ''The Broken Bridge'' (1995)
* ''Zahreeli Hawa'' (2002)
* ''Raj Rakt'' (2006)
* ''Kartoos'' (?)<ref name=":0" />
* ''Dekh Rahe Hai Nyan''<ref name=":0" />
* ''Hirma Ki Amar Kahani''<ref name=":0" />
* He also came up with his own versions of ''Basant Retu ka Sapna'', ''Shajapur ki Shanti Bai'', ''Mitti ki Gari'' and ''Mudrarakhsas''.<ref name=":0" />

==Filmography==

* ''[[Rahi (film)|Rahi]]'' (1952) - Ramu
* ''Foot Path'' (1953)
* ''[[Charandas Chor]]'' (1975) (lyrics and script)
* ''Staying On'' (1980) (TV) - Dr. Mitra
* ''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]'' (1982) - Indian barrister
* ''Man-Eaters of Kumaon'' (1986) (TV) - Bahadur
* ''[[Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin]]'' (1987) - Akhtar Baig
* ''[[Hero Hiralal]]'' (1988)
* ''[[Prahaar: The Final Attack]]'' (1991) - Joe D'Souza, father of Peter D'Souza
* ''The Burning Season'' (1993) - Raja Sahib
* ''Sardar'' (1993)
* ''[[Mangal Pandey: The Rising]]'' (2005) - Bahadur Shah Zafar
* ''[[Black & White (2008 Hindi film)|Black & White]]'' (2008)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090615021209/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/1222891/Habib-Tanveer Habib Tanveer] ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref> - Quazi Saab (final film role)

==Bibliography==
* Rang Habib – Critical Appreciation of Habib Tanveer's Works, Written by Shri B. R. Bhargava, Published by National School of Drama, 2006{{ISBN|81-8197-012-8}}
* ''Charandas Chor''. Tr. by Anjum Katyal. Seagull Books, 1996. {{ISBN|81-7046-108-1}}
* Use of Music and Dance in Contemporary Dramatic Performances
* The Buddhist Theatre of Tibet
* The Living Tale of Hirma: Hirma Ki Amar Kahani. ''Calcutta, Seagull Books, 2005''. {{ISBN|81-7046-277-0}}
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=-acDoLv-sigC&pg=RA1-PA63&dq=Habib+Tanvir&as_brr=0 Janam comes of Age by Habib Tanvir, 1988] ''Theatre of the streets: the Jana Natya Manch experience'', by Arjun Ghosh, Jana Naṭya Mancha, edited by Sudhanva Deshpande. Published by Jana Natya Manch, 2007
* Gaon ke Naon Theatre, Mor Naon Habib (documentary film), dirs. Sanjay Maharishi and Sudhanva Deshpande, 2005
* One Day in the Life of Ponga Pandit (documentary film), dirs. Sanjay Maharishi and Sudhanva Deshpande, 2005
* Tanvir ka safarnama (documentary film), dir. Ranjan Kamath. 2008

==Further reading==
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=BoB6jbZqbhgC&pg=PA221&dq=Habib+Tanvir&as_brr=0 On the Theatre of Habib Tanvir] ''The Dramatic touch of difference: theatre, own and foreign'', by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Josephine Riley, Michael Gissenwehrer. Published by Gunter Narr Verlag, 1990 {{ISBN|3-8233-4023-9}}''Page 221-233''

==See also==
* [[Theatre in India]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070730170634/http://www.samarmagazine.org/archive/article.php?id=56 Habib Tanvir: Making of a Legend, Samar, 2001]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090704213146/http://harmonyindia.org/hportal/VirtualPageView.jsp?page_id=2474 Super trouper : Habib Tanvir]
* {{iMDb name|0849872}}
* [http://www.anindianmuslim.com/2009/06/remembering-habib-tanvir-agra-bazar-and.html Remembering Habib Tanvir and his play Agra Bazar]
* [http://www.teesriduniya.com/tanvir.html]{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Rahul Varma's Tribute to Habib Tanvir
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080615135901/http://teesriduniya.com/productions.html] Rahul Varma's newest play mentored by Habib Tanvir
* [http://www.saadigitalarchive.org/search/habib%20tanvir Habib Tanvir materials in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)]

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Vinod Mehra

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{{Infobox person
| name = Vinod Mehra
| image = Vinod Mehra (1945 – 1990).jpg 
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1945|02|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Amritsar]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British Raj|British India]] (present-day [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], [[India]])
| death_date = {{death date and age|1990|10|30|1945|02|13|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Bombay]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]
| occupation = [[Actor]], [[Film producer|Producer]], [[Film director|Director]]
| spouse = {{marriage|Meena Broca |1974|1978|reason=divorce}} {{marriage|[[Bindiya Goswami]] |1980|1984|reason=divorce}} {{marriage|Kiran |1987}} 
| children = [[Soniya Mehra]] Rohan Mehra
| yearsactive = 1958–1960, 1971–1990
}}
'''Vinod Mehra''' (13 February 1945 – 30 October 1990) was an Indian actor in [[Bollywood]] films. He started out as a child actor in the late 1950s before starting his film career as an adult in 1971. He acted in over 100 films from the 1970s through to his death at the age of 45 in 1990. He was also the producer and director of the film ''[[Gurudev (film)|Gurudev]]'' which was released 3 years after his death.

==Career==
Mehra made his debut in the 1958 film ''[[Raagini (1958 film)|Raagini]]'' as a child artist playing the younger version of the character played by [[Kishore Kumar]]. After playing a few more minor roles as a child, he started his film career as an adult in 1971 with ''[[Ek Thi Reeta]]'', a smash hit based on the English play, ''A Girl Called Rita'', along with [[Tanuja]].<ref>[http://www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19970725/20650883.html A serious satirist] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050328053542/http://www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19970725/20650883.html |date=28 March 2005 }} [[Subhash Chadda]], [[The Indian Express]], 25 July 1997.</ref><ref>[http://in.movies.yahoo.com/artists/Vinod-Mehra/biography-36540.html Biography]{{Dead link|date=October 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} [[Yahoo! Movies]].</ref> He was one of finalists in the 1965 All India Talent Contest organised by United Producers and Filmfare from more than ten thousand contestants. He lost the contest to Rajesh Khanna and became male runner up of the contest.<ref>{{cite web|title=More facts about Rajesh Khanna|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/More-facts-about-Rajesh-Khanna/articleshow/15030591.cms|website=The Times of India|access-date=25 August 2014|archive-date=26 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150326025120/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/More-facts-about-Rajesh-Khanna/articleshow/15030591.cms|url-status=live}}</ref> He was an executive with Goldfield Mercantile Company till the time he became runner up in the contest. He joined the film industry after being spotted by Roop K Shorey at Bombay’s Gaylord restaurant.<ref>http://m.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/hang/quiz-india-at-70/article9811221.ece{{Dead link|date=October 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

This was followed by the film ''[[Parde Ke Peechey]]'' opposite debutant [[Yogeeta Bali]] followed by ''[[Elaan (1971 film)|Elaan]]'' (with Rekha), ''[[Amar Prem]]'' (1971) and ''[[Lal Patthar]]'', though it was only [[Shakti Samanta]]'s ''[[Anuraag (1971 film)|Anuraag]]'' (1973) with [[Moushumi Chatterjee]], which established him as an actor. He went on to appear in over 100 films in a career spanning over two decades. He played lead roles in his earlier films. Later he mostly acted in multi-starrers as a secondary lead or played strong supporting roles such as a brother, friend, uncle, father and police officer. He worked with all top actors like [[Sunil Dutt]], [[Dharmendra]], [[Sanjeev Kumar]], [[Rajesh Khanna]] and [[Amitabh Bachchan]]. His frequent female co-stars included [[Rekha]], [[Moushumi Chatterjee]], [[Yogeeta Bali]], [[Shabana Azmi]] and [[Bindiya Goswami]].

Some of his prominent films include ''[[Nagin (1976 film)|Nagin]]'', ''[[Jaani Dushman]]'', ''[[Ghar (film)|Ghar]]'', ''[[Swarg Narak]]'', ''[[Kartavya (1979 film)|Kartavya]]'', ''[[Saajan Bina Suhagan]]'', ''[[Jurmana (1979 film)|Jurmana]]'', ''[[Ek Hi Raasta (1977 film)|Ek Hi Raasta]]'', ''[[Ye Kaisa Insaaf]]'' ''[[Sweekar Kiya Maine]]'' and ''[[Khud-Daar]]''. He received [[Filmfare]] Nominations as Best Supporting Actor for ''[[Anurodh]]'' (1977), ''[[Amar Deep (1979 film)|Amar Deep]]'' (1979), and ''[[Bemisal]]'' (1982).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://deep750.googlepages.com/FilmfareAwards.pdf |title=Filmfare Nominess and Winner - 1953-2005 |date=2006-02-26 |access-date=2008-11-23 |archive-date=12 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612065210/http://deep750.googlepages.com/FilmfareAwards.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> He also played the leading role in a [[Punjwood|Punjabi]] film ''[[Maujaan Dubai Diyaan]]'' in 1985.

He turned [[Film producer|producer]] and [[Film director|director]] with ''[[Gurudev (film)|Gurudev]]'' in the late 1980s, starring [[Sridevi]], [[Rishi Kapoor]] and [[Anil Kapoor]] in the lead. He died of a [[heart attack]] before completing the film, at the age of 45 in October 1990. The film was released in 1993 after director [[Raj Sippy]] completed the film. Many of his delayed films were released after his death and dedicated to his memory such as ''[[Patthar Ke Phool]]'' (1991 film), ''[[Insaniyat (1994 film)|Insaniyat]]'' (1994) and ''[[Aurat Aurat Aurat]]'' (1996).

Vinod Mehra's daughter [[Soniya Mehra]] has acted in a couple films and son Rohan Mehra made his debut in Nikhil Advani's ''[[Baazaar]]'' in 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://www.rediff.com/movies/report/meet-vinod-mehras-son-rohan/20170510.htm|title = Meet Vinod Mehra's son, Rohan|date = 10 May 2017|work = Rediff|access-date = 28 June 2017|archive-date = 7 July 2017|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170707010352/http://www.rediff.com/movies/report/meet-vinod-mehras-son-rohan/20170510.htm|url-status = live}}</ref>

==Personal life and family==
Vinod Mehra was born in [[Amritsar]] in 1945. His father's name was Parameshwaridas Mehra and mother's name Kamala Mehra. Family shifted its base to Bombay from Amritsar after independence as Parameshwaridas had business interest in Bombay. He had an elder sister named Sharda who appeared in several films before Mehra started his career in 1970s. Mehra completed his schooling in [[Sacred Heart Boys High School]] Santacruz and later earned a Bachelor's degree from [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai]].

Mehra was close to [[Rekha]] during the mid-70s. Indeed, they were widely believed to have married each other, but in a 2004 television interview with [[Simi Garewal]], Rekha denied having ever been married to him, and referred to him affectionately as a "well-wisher."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Indias-Greta-Garbo-breaks-silence/articleshow/717832.cms|title=India's Greta Garbo breaks silence|last=Mehta|first=Ruchika|date=3 June 2004|access-date=2008-11-23|work=The Times of India|archive-date=25 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825110012/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Indias-Greta-Garbo-breaks-silence/articleshow/717832.cms|url-status=live}}</ref> Mehra's first marriage to Meena Broca was arranged by his mother. The marriage was reportedly not consummated as [[Vinod]] had a [[heart attack]] shortly after the marriage. Once he recovered, he eloped with frequent leading lady of the time, [[Bindiya Goswami]]. Meena was left with no choice but to file for divorce. Mehra's relationship with Bindiya unraveled very quickly, and she soon left him to marry director [[J. P. Dutta]].<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.screenindia.com/20010921/fsalaam.html |title=Salaam Bollywood  |access-date=2008-11-23 |archive-date=3 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203170112/http://www.screenindia.com/20010921/fsalaam.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1988, Mehra married Kiran, daughter of a [[Kenya]]-based transport businessman. The marriage lasted until his death two years later and produced two children: a daughter named [[Soniya Mehra|Soniya]] (born in 1988) and a son named Rohan (born posthumously). Mehra died of a heart attack on 30 October 1990.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/artists/vinod-mehra/biography/|title=Vinod Mehra Bio MTV|access-date=8 February 2014|archive-date=22 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222051650/http://www.mtv.com/artists/vinod-mehra/biography/|url-status=live}}</ref> He was only 45 years of age.

After Mehra's death, his widow moved to [[Kenya]], to live with her parents and sister. The children were raised in [[Mombasa]] and went to the [[UK]] for higher education. Both entered the film industry eventually. Soniya made her Hindi film debut in the 2007 film ''[[Victoria No. 203 (2007 film)|Victoria No. 203]]'', a remake of the 1972 classic film [[Victoria No. 203|of the same name]]. Rohan made his debut in [[Nikhil Advani]]'s ''[[Baazaar]]'' (2018).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Vinod-Mehras-son-Rohan-will-be-launched-shortly/articleshow/48685004.cms |title=Rohan Mehra to make debut |access-date=19 August 2016 |archive-date=14 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161214120330/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Vinod-Mehras-son-Rohan-will-be-launched-shortly/articleshow/48685004.cms |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Filmography==

===Producer & Director===
* ''[[Gurudev (film)|Gurudev]]'' (1993)

===Actor===
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* ''[[Adl-e-Jehangir|Adl-E-Jehangir]]'' (1955) as Child Artist (Uncredited)
* ''Patit Pawan'' (1955)
* ''[[Sharada (1957 film)|Sharada]]'' (1957) as Chiranjeev's Brother
* ''[[Duniya Rang Rangeeli]]'' (1957) as Street Singer
* ''[[Balyogi Upmanyu]]'' (1958)
* ''[[Raagini (1958 film)|Raagini]]'' (1958) as Young Rajan (Uncredited)
* ''[[Bewaqoof]]'' (1960) as Young Kishore Kumar
* ''[[Angulimaal (film)|Angulimaal]]'' (1960) as Young Ahinsak
* ''[[Ek Thi Reeta]]'' (1971)
* ''[[Parde Ke Peechey]]'' (1971) as Rajan
* ''[[Elaan (1971 film)|Elaan]]'' (1971) as Naresh Kumar Saxena
* ''[[Lal Patthar]]'' (1971) as Shekhar
* ''[[Amar Prem]]'' (1971) as Nandkishore Sharma "Nandu"
* ''[[Anuraag (1972 film)|Anuraag]]'' (1972) as Rajesh
* ''[[Maalik Tere Bande Hum]]'' (1972)
* ''[[Rani Mera Naam|Rani Mera Nam]]'' (1972) as CID Inspector Anand (Special Appearance)
* ''[[Bees Saal Pehle|Bees Saal Pahele]]'' (1972) as Story Listener (Guest Appearance)
* ''[[Bandagi|Bandgi]]'' (1972) as Darpan
* ''[[Kahani Hum Sab Ki]]'' (1973) as Prabhat
* ''[[Do Phool]]'' (1973) as Charitra Kumar Rai "Chuttan"
* ''[[Teen Chor]]'' (1973) as Mohan
* ''[[Nirdosh (1973 film)|Nirdosh]]'' (1973) as Ravi
* ''[[Hifazat (1973 film)|Hifazat]]'' (1973) as Kishore
* ''[[Jurm Aur Sazaa]]'' (1974) as Ratan
* ''[[Aarop]]'' (1974) as Ravi
* ''[[Kunwara Baap (1974 film)|Kunwara Baap]]'' (1974) as Vinod (Special Appearance)
* ''[[Vada Tera Vada]]'' (1974) as Vinod
* ''[[Ujala Hi Ujala]]'' (1974) as Vikram
* ''[[Us Paar]]'' (1974) as Mohan
* ''[[Shaandaar (1974 film)|Shaandaar]]'' (1974) as Chander
* ''[[Hawas]]'' (1974) as Dr. Bali
* ''[[Faslah]]'' (1974) as Vinod (Gautam's Friend)
* ''[[Chattan Singh]]'' (1974) as Vishal
* ''[[Albeli]]'' (1974) as Vikas Chandra Verma
* ''[[Vardaan]]'' (1975) as Mahesh Sharma
* ''[[Mazaaq]]'' (1975) as Vinod
* ''[[Umar Qaid]]'' (1975) as Vinod
* ''[[Raftaar (1975 film)|Raftaar]]'' (1975) as Vikram
* ''[[Do Jhoot]]'' (1975) as Sanjay
* ''[[Neelima (1975 film)|Neelima]]'' (1975)
* ''[[Zindagi (1976 film)|Zindagi]]'' (1976) as Ajay
* ''[[Arjun Pandit (1976 film)|Arjun Pandit]]'' (1976) as Tinu - Tina Shukla
* ''[[Nagin (1976 film)|Nagin]]'' (1976) as Rajesh
* ''[[Sabse Bada Rupaiya (1976 film)|Sabse Bada Rupaiya]]'' (1976) as Amit Rai
* ''[[Ginny Aur Johnny]]'' (1976) as Mechanic
* ''[[Do Khiladi]]'' (1976) as Sawan
* ''[[Saal Solvan Chadya]]'' (1977) as Tony's Uncle
* ''[[Tinku (1977 film)|Tinku]]'' (1977) as Rajendra Shah
* ''[[Jagriti (1977 film)|Jagriti]]'' (1977)
* ''[[Duniyadari (1977 film)|Duniyadari]]'' (1977) as Prakash
* ''[[Khel Kismat Ka]]'' (1977) as Vinod
* ''[[Chaalu Mera Naam]]'' (1977) as CBI Officer Chandrashekhar / Raju
* ''[[Ooparwala Jaane|Ooparwala Jane]]'' (1977)
* ''[[Kali Raat]]'' (1977)
* ''[[Ek Hi Raasta (1977 film)|Ek Hi Raasta]]'' (1977) as Nirmal
* ''[[Safed Jhooth]]'' (1977) as Vinod Thakur
* ''[[Anurodh]]'' (1977) as Shrikant
* ''[[Ab Kya Hoga]]'' (1977) as Kaka's Son (Uncredited)
* ''[[Saajan Bina Suhagan]]'' (1978) as Anand
* ''[[Ghar (film)|Ghar]]'' (1978) as Vikas Chandra
* ''[[Swarg Narak|Swarag Narak]]'' (1978) as Vinod
* ''[[Chowki No.11]]'' (1978) as Vijay
* ''[[Chakravyuha]]'' (1978) as Raman
* ''[[Aakhri Kasam]]'' (1979) as Inspector Ram
* ''[[Kartavya (1979 film)|Kartavya]]'' (1979) as Ajay Rai / Dushyant
* ''[[Jurmana (1979 film)|Jurmana]]'' (1979) as Prem Prakash Trivedi
* ''[[Jaani Dushman]]'' (1979) as Police Inspector / Madman
* ''[[Bin Phere Hum Tere]]'' (1979) as Raju Sharma / Debu Sharma (Double Role)
* ''[[Raakhi Ki Saugandh]]'' (1979) as CID Inspector Shankar Verma
* ''[[Love in Canada]]'' (1979) as Dr. Amit
* ''[[Jaandaar|Jaandar]]'' (1979) as Inspector Raj Kumar Verma "Raju"
* ''[[Dada]]'' (1979) as Moti / Jeetu
* ''[[Amar Deep (1979 film)|Amar Deep]]'' (1979) as Kishan
* ''[[Atmaram (film)|Atmaram]]'' (1979) as Madan
* ''[[Naya Bakra]]'' (1979) as Vinod
* ''[[Premikaa]]'' (1980) as Vinod
* ''[[Kashish (1980 film)|Kashish]]'' (1980) as Mohan
* ''[[Badla Aur Balidan]]'' (1980) as Deepak
* ''[[Saboot]]'' (1980) as Vikas
* ''[[The Burning Train]]'' (1980) as Rakesh
* ''[[Takkar (1980 film)|Takkar]]'' (1980) as Vinod / Boss (Double Role)
* ''[[Jyoti Bane Jwala]]'' (1980) as Inspector Arjun Bakshi
* ''[[Jwalamukhi (1980 film)|Jwalamukhi]]'' (1980) as Vikram
* ''[[Pyaara Dushman]]'' (1980) as Inspector Amar
* ''[[Zakhmon Ke Nishan]]'' (1980)
* ''[[Yeh Kaisa Insaf]]'' (1980) as Ramnath Malhotra "Ram"
* ''[[Khoon Kharaba]]'' (1980) as Raju
* ''[[Saajan Ki Saheli]]'' (1981) as Anand
* ''[[Ye Rishta Na Tootay]]'' (1981) as Ram Kapoor
* ''[[Shama (1981 film)|Shama]]'' (1981) as Dargah Devotee
* ''[[Chehre Pe Chehra]]'' (1981) as David
* ''[[Sannata]]'' (1981) as CBI Officer (Special Appearance)
* ''[[Pyaasa Sawan]]'' (1981) as Jagannath (Monorama's Father)
* ''[[Gehra Zakhm|Gehra Zakham]]'' (1981) as Vijay
* ''[[Kahani Ek Chor Ki]]'' (1981) as Shyam / Vilaiti
* ''[[Sansani: The Sensation|Sansani]]'' (1981) as Ajay Sachdev
* ''[[Professor Pyarelal]]'' (1981) as Professor Pyarelal
* ''[[Khoon Ki Takkar]]'' (1981) as Rajan
* ''[[Ustadi Ustad Se]]'' (1982) as Sanjay "Sonu"
* ''[[Bemisal]]'' (1982) as Dr. Prashant Chaturvedi
* ''[[Dial 100 (1982 film)|Dial 100]]'' (1982) as Gautam
* ''[[Khud-Daar|Khud-daar]]'' (1982) as Rajesh Shrivastav "Raja"
* ''[[Lakshmi (1982 film)|Lakshmi]]'' (1982) as Mohan Saxena
* ''[[Shiv Charan]]'' (1982) as Charan
* ''[[Gopichand Jasoos]]'' (1982) as Jeetendra Verma (Special Appearance)
* ''[[Sumbandh]]'' (1982) as Prakash Khanna
* ''[[Raakh Aur Chingari]]'' (1982) as Ashok
* ''[[Khush Naseeb (1982 film)|Khush Naseeb]]'' (1982) as Vijay Sharma
* ''[[Dil Hi Dil Mein (1982 film)|Dil Hi Dil Mein]]'' (1982) as Vijay Kumar Anand
* ''[[Sweekar Kiya Maine]]'' (1983) as Kishan Kumar Shukla
* ''Mehndi'' (1983) as Gautam
* ''[[Kanku Ni Kimat]]'' (1983)
* ''[[Prem Tapasya]]'' (1983) as Ashok
* ''[[Naukar Biwi Ka]]'' (1983) as Inspector Amarnath
* ''[[Shubh Kaamna]]'' (1983) as Mr. Mehra
* ''[[Lalach|Laalach]]'' (1983) as Kishore
* ''[[Chor Police]]'' (1983) as Inspector Rohan Sinha (Special Appearance)
* ''[[Yeh Desh]]'' (1984) as Salim
* ''[[Bindiya Chamkegi]]'' (1984) as Shyam Kapoor
* ''[[Dharm Aur Qanoon]]'' (1984) as Dr. Bashir Khan
* ''[[Jeene Nahi Doonga]]'' (1984) as Police Inspector
* ''[[Zakhmi Sher]]'' (1984) as Police Inspector
* ''[[All Rounder (1984 film)|All Rounder]]'' (1984) as Birju
* ''[[Aurat Ka Inteqam]]'' (1984) as Dinesh
* ''[[Pet Pyar Aur Paap]]'' (1984) as Vinod
* ''[[Mujhe Shaktee Do]]'' (1984) as Suraj
* ''[[Ek Naya Itihas]]'' (1984)
* ''[[Ram Tere Kitne Naam|Ram Tere Kitne Nam]]'' (1985) as Aloknath Gupta
* ''[[Pyari Behna]]'' (1985) as Vinay Verma
* ''[[Sanjog (1985 film)|Sanjog]]'' (1985) as Narayan's Brother
* ''[[Shiva Ka Insaaf]]'' (1985) as Ram
* ''[[Maujaan Dubai Diyaan]]'' (1985) as Chandraprakash
* ''[[Ankahee (1985 film)|Ankahee]]'' (1985) as Doctor
* ''[[Jaal (1986 film)|Jaal]]'' (1986) as Satpal Verma
* ''[[Aap Ke Saath|Aap Ke Sath]]'' (1986) as Ashok
* ''[[Mohabbat Ki Kasam]]'' (1986) as Dancer / Singer (Special Appearance)
* ''[[Locket (1986 film)|Locket]]'' (1986) as Rajkumar Anil Pratap Singh / Raja
* ''[[Swati (1986 film)|Swati]]'' (1986) as Satyaprakash
* ''[[Aisa Pyaar Kahan|Aisa Pyar Kahan]]'' (1986) as Advocate Deepak Khanna
* ''[[Patton Ki Bazi]]'' (1986) as Inspector Vinod Saxena
* ''[[Inteqam Ki Aag]]'' (1986) as Inspector Kishan
* ''[[Preeti (1986 film)|Preeti]]'' (1986)
* ''[[Maqaar]]'' (1986)
* ''[[Samay Ki Dhaara]]'' (1986) as Dr. Vinod Kapoor
* ''[[Vishal (1987 film)|Vishal]]'' (1987) as Dr. Tarak
* ''[[Aag Hi Aag]]'' (1987) as Dr. Raghuveer Singh
* ''[[Pyar Ki Jeet (1987 film)|Pyar Ki Jeet]]'' (1987) as Dr. Anand
* ''[[Satyamev Jayate (film)|Satyamev Jayate]]'' (1987) as Inspector Mirza
* ''[[Aulad (1987 film)|Aulad]]'' (1987) as Vicky
* ''[[Woh Milie Thi]]'' (1988) as Amar
* ''[[Waqt Ki Awaz]]'' (1988) as Dr. Shrikant
* ''[[Aakhri Adaalat]]'' (1988) as Barrister Shrikant Sharma
* ''[[Faisla]]'' (1988) as CID Inspector Ashok Verma / Bansi
* ''[[Mahaveera (film)|Mahaveera]]'' (1988) as Dharam (Farmer)
* ''[[Namumkin]]'' (1988) as Shakti Kaul
* ''[[Saazish (1988 film)|Saazish]]'' (1988) as Inspector Saxena
* ''[[Mar Mitenge]]'' (1988) as Inspector Thakur
* ''[[Bees Saal Baad (1988 film)|Bees Saal Baad]]'' (1988) as Inspector Verma
* ''[[Vardi (film)|Vardi]]'' (1989) as Police Commissioner Verma
* ''[[Meri Zabaan]]'' (1989) as Vikram Singh
* ''[[Eeshwar (1989 film)|Eeshwar]]'' (1989) as Ramesh (Lalita's Brother)
* ''[[Prem Pratigyaa]]'' (1989) as Professor
* ''[[Shehzaade]]'' (1989) as Inspector Shankar Shrivastav (Gauri's Brother)
* ''[[Mitti Aur Sona]]'' (1989) as Inspector Sunil
* ''[[Hum Intezaar Karenge]]'' (1989) as Ravi
* ''[[Zimmedaaar]]'' (1990) as Inspector Prakash Verma
* ''[[Pyar Ka Karz]]'' (1990) as Police Commissioner Arun Kumar
* ''[[Patthar Ke Phool]]'' (1991) as Inspector Vijay Verma
* ''[[Shikari (1991 film)|Shikari]]'' (1991)
* ''[[Kohraam]]'' (1991) as Masterji (Arjun's Elder Brother)
* ''[[Sarphira]]'' (1992) as Advocate Raj Kishan Sinha
* ''[[Police Wala|Policewala]]'' (1993) as Inspector Prabhakar
* ''[[Prateeksha]]'' (1993) as Tom D'Costa
* ''[[Insaniyat (1994 film)|Insaniyat]]'' (1994) as Nandu
* ''[[Aurat Aurat Aurat]]'' (1996) as Vijay
* ''[[Aatank]]'' (1996) as Peter
* ''[[Aahat – Ek Ajib Kahani|Aahat]]'' (2010)
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===Unreleased Films===
* ''Dam Maro Dam'' (1980)
* ''Barrister'' (1982)
* ''Chakma'' (1984)
* ''Kasme Rasme'' (1986)
* ''Bonny'' (1993)

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|id=0576495|name=Vinod Mehra}}

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Sandip Ray

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| occupation = Film director, composer and music director
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'''Sandip Ray''' ({{indic|lang=bn|indic=সন্দীপ রায়|trans=Shôndip Rae}}; born 8 September 1953) is an Indian film director and music director who mainly works in [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali cinema]]. He is the only child of the famous Bengali director [[Satyajit Ray]] and [[Bijoya Ray]].

==Life and education==
Sandip Ray was born in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]]. Initially schooled at the [[South Point School (India)|South Point School]] and the [[Patha Bhavan, Kolkata]], he subsequently attended the [[University of Calcutta]].<ref name=Kolkata_Bengal_Info>{{cite web|url=http://www.kolkatabengalinfo.com/2011/08/sandip-roy-profile-family-education.html|title=Sandip Roy Profile Family Education Film Career - Bengali Film Director Sandip Roy - Kolkata Bengal Information|first=S|last=Kumar}}</ref>

==Career==
Ray started his professional career in film at the age of 24 as [[assistant director]] on the sets of his father's film ''[[Shatranj Ke Khilari (film)|Shatranj Ke Khilari]]'' (''The Chess Players'', 1977). Prior to this, he had aided his father in various capacities including still photographer on [[Set construction|set]]. His own directorial debut was ''Phatik Chand'' (1983) based on [[Satyajit Ray]]'s [[Literary works of Satyajit Ray#Fatik Chand|Fatik Chand]] – the film received an award in the International Children's Film Festival in Vancouver.

Sandip Ray is also a noted photographer. He was the director of photography on Satyajit Ray's last three films, ''[[Ganashatru]]'' (''An Enemy of the People'', 1989), ''[[Shakha Proshakha]]'' (''The Branches of the Tree'', 1990) and ''[[Agantuk]]'' (''The Stranger'', 1991).

Sandip Ray also guided the children's magazine ''[[Sandesh (magazine)|Sandesh]]'', which was founded by his great-grandfather [[Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury]], and continued by his grandfather [[Sukumar Ray]] and his father [[Satyajit Ray]]. From 1992, after the death of Satyajit, Sandip was the Joint Editor of the [[Sandesh (magazine)|Sandesh]]. Since 2003 he has been the editor of the magazine.

Sandip Ray has recently come up with his account of the time he has had with [[Feluda]], the famous Bengali detective created by his father, in a book named ''Aami aar Feluda'', published by Deep Prakashan. ''Aami aar Feluda'' was one of the best sellers in the last Kolkata Book Fair. First published in the magazine ''Sukhi Grihokon'' as a short series, ''Aami aar Feluda'' retains the flavour of ''Ekei Bole Shooting'', written by Satyajit Ray. Sandip's book deals with the background stories of all [[Feluda]] movies and [[Television film|telefilms]]. ''Aami aar Feluda'' is ghost-written by author Sebabrata Banerjee. Sebabrata has tried to follow the smart and fluent style of writing introduced by Satyajit Ray which has made the new Feluda number a good reading experience. He has made a video-documentary film on the late [[Kishore Kumar]] in the year 1989.

In 2003, Sandip Ray began working on adapting his father [[Satyajit Ray]]'s original 1962 story ''[[The Alien (unproduced film)|Bankhubabur Bandhu]]'' into a Bengali television film of the same name.<ref>{{cite news|title=Close encounters with native E.T. finally real|date=5 April 2003|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/42443247.cms|access-date=24 March 2009}}</ref> The film, directed by [[Kaushik Sen]], was eventually shown on [[Television in India|Indian television]] in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|title=BANKUBABUR BANDHU & SAMUDRER MOUNA at Rangashankara|publisher=Events Bangalore|date=11 October 2006|url=http://eventsbengaluru.com/2006/10/11/bankubabur-bandhu-samudrer-mouna-at-rangashankara|access-date=24 March 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710205633/http://eventsbengaluru.com/2006/10/11/bankubabur-bandhu-samudrer-mouna-at-rangashankara/|archive-date=10 July 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> He started to score background music for Feluda from the film ''[[Bombaiyer Bombete (film)|Bombaiyer Bombete]]'' (2003). Sandip Ray used his first written thriller story for his own directed film ''Hitlist'', 2009. In 2016, he directed a new [[Feluda in film|Feluda film]] titled ''[[Double Feluda]]'' which is the sequel to ''[[Royal Bengal Rahashya (film)|Royal Bengal Rohosso]]'' (2011). During the shooting of ''Double Feluda'', produced by [[Eros International]], Sandip Ray filmed his father's famous library.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://asiatimes.com/inside-rays-famous-study/|title=Inside Satyajit Ray's famous study|last=Mukherjee|first=Amrita|date=22 November 2016|website=www.atimes.com|access-date=2 December 2016}}</ref>

Currently he is directing a new film titled ''Professor Shonku O El Dorado'',<ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/satyajit-rays-prof-shonku-is-ready-for-the-big-screen/article21382154.ece Professor Shonku O El Dorado]</ref> based on a story of [[Satyajit Ray]]'s [[Professor Shonku]] series called ''Nakur Babu O El Dorado''. The film will star veteran actor [[Dhritiman Chatterjee]] as Professor Shonku. The film is being produced by [[Shree Venkatesh Films|SVF Entertainment]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Singh|first=Shiv Sahay|date=2020-11-22|title=Satyajit Ray's Feluda and Professor Shanku to share screen|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/satyajit-rays-feluda-and-professor-shanku-to-share-screen/article33155514.ece|access-date=2021-03-09|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

==Filmography==
Sandip Ray has directed the following TV films and movies:
# ''Shanku aar Feluda'' (2021) - To be released in December 2021. <ref>{{Cite news|title=Satyajit Ray's Feluda and Professor Shanku to share screen|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/satyajit-rays-feluda-and-professor-shanku-to-share-screen/article33155514.ece}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Satyajit Ray's director son Sandip Ray to bring Feluda, Professor Shanku in same film|work=The Economic Times|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/satyajit-rays-director-son-sandip-ray-to-bring-feluda-professor-shanku-in-same-film/articleshow/78806415.cms|access-date=2021-03-09}}</ref>
# ''[[Professor Shonku O El Dorado]]'' (2019)
# ''[[Double Feluda]]'' ([[Feluda in film|Feluda movie]], 2016)<ref>[http://abpananda.abplive.in/entertainment/who-will-be-next-feluda-181191]. ''ABP Ananda''</ref><ref>[http://www.anandabazar.com/supplementary/anandaplus/who-will-be-the-next-feluda-mystery-sloved-1.368758]. ''Anandabazar''</ref><ref>[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/Shaheb-makes-a-comeback-as-Topshe/articleshow/52238564.cms]. ''The Times of India''</ref><ref>[http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-sandip-ray-s-next-feluda-film-to-be-made-from-two-stories-2208523]. ''dnaindia''</ref><ref>[https://www.absoluteweddingstudio.com/]''absoluteweddingstudio.com''</ref>
# ''[[Monchora]]'' (2016)
# ''[[Badshahi Angti (film)|Badshahi Angti]]'' ([[Feluda in film|A stand-alone Feluda reboot]], 2014)
# ''[[Chaar (film)|Chaar]]'' (2014)
# ''[[Jekhane Bhooter Bhoy]]'' (2012)
# ''[[Royal Bengal Rohosso]]'' ([[Feluda in film|Feluda movie]], 2011)
# ''[[Gorosthaney Sabdhan (film)|Gorosthaney Sabdhan]]'' ([[Feluda in film|Feluda movie]], 2010)
# ''Hitlist'' (2009)
# ''[[Tintorettor Jishu (film)|Tintorettor Jishu]]'' ([[Feluda in film|Feluda movie]], 2008)
# ''[[Kailashey Kelenkari (film)|Kailashey Kelenkari]]'' ([[Feluda in film|Feluda movie]], 2007)
# ''[[Nishijapon]]'' (2005)
# ''[[Bombaiyer Bombete (film)|Bombaiyer Bombete]]'' ([[Feluda in film|Feluda movie]], 2003)
# ''[[Feluda in film|Satyajiter Priyo Galpo]]'' (A series of seven TV films including one [[Feluda]] [[Feluda in film|film]], 2000)
#'' [[Feluda in film|Dr. Munshir Diary]]'' (A TV film of ''Satyajiter Priyo Golpo'' TV film series, 2000)
# ''Eker Pithe Dui'' (unreleased series of 12 short films made for television, 2000)
# ''[[Feluda in film|Satyajiter Goppo]]'' (A series of [[Feluda in film|four TV films]] based on four [[Feluda]] mysteries and six short films based on six different stories of [[Satyajit Ray]], 1999)<ref>[http://www.screenindia.com/old/20010518/rbengali.html Sandip Ray presents Satyajiter Gappo] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090323151153/http://www.screenindia.com/old/20010518/rbengali.html |date=23 March 2009 }}</ref>
# ''My Mother: A Freudian introspection'' (Documentary, 1997)
# ''[[Feluda in film|Feluda 30]]'' (A series of five TV films based on [[Feluda]], 1996)
# ''[[Baksho Rahashya (film)|Baksho Rahashya]] (first TV film of ''Feluda 30'', 1996)
# ''[[Target (1995 film)|Target]]'' (1995)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.pardo.ch/filmdetails.do?oc=238593|title=TARGET}}</ref>
# ''[[The Broken Journey|Uttoran]]'' (1994)
# ''[[Goopy Bagha Phire Elo]]'' (1992)
# ''Pregnant Silence: Conception of a Genius (A Documentary on a rather surprising personal triumph, 1991)
# ''Zindagi Ek Safar'' (A Homevideo Documentary on Kishore Kumar, 1989)
# ''Satyajit Ray Presents II'' ( Hindi TV film series, 1987)
# ''[[Kissa Kathmandu Ka]]'' ''Satyajit Ray Presents'' (Hindi TV film series, 1986)
# ''[[Phatik Chand (film)]]'' (Based on a story by [[Satyajit Ray]], 1983), Directorial debut
# ''[[Hirak Rajar Deshe]]'' (Based on a story of [[Satyajit Ray]], 1980) as Assistant Director and Still Photographer
# ''Trailer for [[Satyajit Ray]]'s [[Shatranj Ke Khilari]] (1978)

==Books==
*''Aami Aar Feluda'' (2006, ghost written by Sebabrata Banerjee)

== Remarks ==
* Satyajit Ray felt Sandip was the best assistant (director) he ever had. (Satyajit) Ray told–<ref name="Ray on Sandip">{{cite web|title=Ray on Sandip|url=http://www.satyajitrayworld.com/family_son.php#1|access-date=29 October 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107001008/http://www.satyajitrayworld.com/family_son.php#1|archive-date=7 November 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref><blockquote>Sandip is handicapped by the additional weight of being my son. His latest work – The Return of Goopy & Bagha is hundred percent his own work. Only the plot and a few songs were mine. But the direction, the photography, the script were all Sandip's. In his handling of the camera, he is a master. His skill is better than mine. The bravura work of his cinematography is incomparable...</blockquote>

==See also==
* [[Cinema of West Bengal]]
* [[Literary creations of Satyajit Ray|Literary works of Satyajit Ray]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|712994}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121107001008/http://www.satyajitrayworld.com/family_son.php#1 Sandip Ray's biography at SatyajitRay.org]
* [https://archive.today/20130118015339/http://www.banglafilmsonline.com/item5 Watch Phatik Chand on your phone, tablet or computer]

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Mira Nair

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1957|10|15}}
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| occupation = {{hlist|Film director|Film producer}}
| years_active = 1986– present
| spouse = {{ubl|{{Marriage|[[Mitch Epstein]]||1987|reason=divorce}}|{{Marriage|[[Mahmood Mamdani]]|1991}}}}
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'''Mira Nair''' (born 15 October 1957) is an [[Indian Americans|Indian-American]] filmmaker based in [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Spelling|first=Ian|title=Director likes to do her own thing|newspaper=Waterloo Region Record|date=1 September 2004|pages=C4}}</ref> Her production company, [[Mirabai Films]], specializes in films for international audiences on Indian society, whether in the economic, social or cultural spheres. Among her best known films are ''[[Mississippi Masala]]'', ''[[Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love]]'', ''[[The Namesake (film)|The Namesake]]'', the [[Golden Lion]] winning ''[[Monsoon Wedding]]'', and ''[[Salaam Bombay!]]'', which received nominations for the [[Academy Award for Best International Feature Film|Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]] and the [[BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language]].

==Early life and education==
Mira Nair was born on 15 October 1957 in [[Rourkela]], [[Odisha|Orissa]], and grew up with her two older brothers and parents in [[Bhubaneswar]].<ref name="Applause Theater & Cinema Books">{{cite book|last1=Muir|first1=John Kenneth|title=Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair|date=1 June 2006|publisher=Applause Theater & Cinema Books|isbn=1557836493}}</ref> Her father, Amrit Lal Nair, was an officer of the [[Indian Administrative Service]] and her mother, Parveen Nayyar, is a social worker who often focused on children.<ref name="Mira Nair">{{cite web|title=Mira Nair|url=http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2007-Li-Pr/Nair-Mira.html|website=Encyclopedia of World Biography|publisher=Encyclopedia of World Biography|access-date=29 April 2015}}</ref>

She lived in Bhubaneswar till age 18, and attended a convent, following which she left to attend [[Loreto Convent, Tara Hall, Shimla]],<ref>{{cite news |title=I'd eat onions before kissing Shashi Tharoor: Mira Nair |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Id-eat-onions-before-kissing-Shashi-Tharoor-Mira-Nair/articleshow/16235108.cms |work=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref> an Irish-Catholic missionary school, where she developed an infatuation with English literature. Following Tara Hall, Nair went on to study at [[Miranda House]] at [[Delhi University]], where she majored in [[sociology]]. In order to gain the best education available, Nair applied for transfer to Western schools and, at 19, she was offered a full scholarship to [[Cambridge University]], but ultimately turned it down and instead accepted a full scholarship to [[Harvard University]].<ref name="voices.cla.umn.edu">{{cite web|last1=Blenski|first1=Simon|last2=Debreyne|first2=Adrien Maurice|last3=Hegewisch|first3=Martha Eugina|last4=Trivedi|first4=Avani Anant|title=Mira Nair|url=http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/nairMira.php|publisher=University of Minnesota|access-date=30 April 2015}}{{Failed verification|date=July 2015}}</ref>

==Career==
Before she became a filmmaker, Nair was originally interested in acting, and at one point she performed plays written by [[Badal Sarkar]], a [[Bengali theatre|Bengali performer]]. While she studied at Harvard University, Nair became involved in the theater program and won a Boylston Prize for her performance of [[Jocasta]]'s speech from [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]]'s ''[[Oedipus (Seneca)|Oedipus]]''.<ref name="Applause Theater & Cinema Books"/>

Nair commented on film-making in a 2004 interview with FF2 Media's Jan Huttner:<blockquote>It’s all in how I do it. Keeping the buns on the seats is very important to me. It requires that ineffable thing called rhythm and balance in movie-making. Foils have to be created, counter-weights. From the intimacy, let’s say, of a love scene to the visceral, jugular quality of war. That shift is something in the editing, how one cuts from the intimate to the epic that keeps you there waiting. The energy propels you.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jan Chats with Internationally-Acclaimed Director Mira Nair About Her New Film 'Vanity Fair'|url=http://www.films42.com/chats/mira_nair.asp|last=Huttner|first=Jan|date=15 August 2004|website=FF2 Media|access-date=18 May 2020}}</ref></blockquote>Nair said to ''Image Journal'' in 2017 that she chose directing over any other art form because it was collaborative. "That’s why I am neither a photographer nor writer," she said. "I like to work with people, and my strength, if any, is that. Working with life."<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Conversation with Mira Nair|url=https://imagejournal.org/article/conversation-mira-nair/|website=Image Journal|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-18}}</ref>

===Documentaries===

At the start of her film-making career, Nair primarily made documentaries in which she explored Indian cultural tradition. For her film thesis at Harvard between 1978 and 1979, Nair produced a black-and-white film titled ''Jama Masjid Street Journal''. In the eighteen-minute film, Nair explored the streets of [[Old Delhi]] and had casual conversations with Indian locals.<ref name="voices.cla.umn.edu"/>

In 1982, she made her second documentary titled ''So Far from India'', which is a fifty-two-minute film that followed an Indian newspaper dealer living in the subways of New York, while his pregnant wife waited for him to return home.<ref name="Mira Nair"/> This film was recognized as a Best Documentary winner at the [[American Film Festival]] and New York's Global Village Film Festival.<ref name="voices.cla.umn.edu"/>

Her third documentary, ''India Cabaret'', released in 1984, revealed the exploitation of female strippers in [[Mumbai|Bombay]], and followed a customer who regularly visited a local strip club while his wife stayed at home.<ref name="voices.cla.umn.edu"/> Nair raised roughly $130,000 for the project. The 59-minute film was shot over a span of two months. It was criticized by Nair's family.<ref name="Applause Theater & Cinema Books"/><ref name="Mira Nair"/> Her fourth and last documentary, made for [[Canadian television]], explored how [[amniocentesis]] was being used to determine the sex of fetuses. Released in 1987, ''Children of a Desired Sex'' exposed the aborting of female fetuses due to society's favoring male offspring.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

In 2001, with The Laughing Club of India, she explored [[Laughter yoga|laughter based on yoga]]. Founder Dr. Madan Kararia spoke of the club's history and the growth of laughing clubs across the country, and subsequently the world. The documentary included testimonials from members of the laughter clubs who described how the practice had improved or changed their lives. Its featured segments included a group of workers in an electrical products factory in Bombay who took time off to laugh during their coffee break.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HEte5ilhCTcC&q=mira+nair+++documentary&pg=PR9|title=Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair|last=Muir|first=John Kenneth|date=2006|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9781557836496|pages=156–158|language=en}}</ref>

===Feature films===
In 1983 with her friend, [[Sooni Taraporevala]], Nair co-wrote ''[[Salaam Bombay!]]''. Using her documentary film-making and acting experience, Nair sought out for real "street children" to more authentically portray the lives of children who survived in the streets and were deprived of a real childhood.<ref name="Applause Theater & Cinema Books"/> Though the film did not do well at the box office, it won 23 international awards, including the Camera D’or and Prix du Public at the [[Cannes Film Festival]] in 1988. ''Salaam Bombay!'' was nominated at the [[Academy Awards]] for [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] in 1989.<ref>{{cite news |last=Crossette |first=Barabara |date=23 December 1990 |title=Homeless and Hungry Youths of India |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0DA1531F930A15751C1A966958260 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 October 2008 }}</ref>

Nair and Taraporevala continued to challenge audiences with the 1991 film ''[[Mississippi Masala]],'' which told the story of Ugandan-born Indians displaced in [[Mississippi]].<ref name="Mira Nair"/> The film, featuring [[Denzel Washington]], [[Roshan Seth]], and [[Sarita Choudhury]], centers on a carpet-cleaner business owner (Washington) who falls in love with the daughter (Choudhury) of one of his Indian clients. The film revealed the evident prejudice in African-American and Indian communities. Like ''Salaam Bombay!'', the film was well received by critics, earned a standing ovation at the [[Sundance Film Festival]] in 1992, and won three awards at the [[Venice Film Festival]].<ref name="voices.cla.umn.edu"/>

Nair went on to direct four more films before she produced one of her most notable films, ''[[Monsoon Wedding]]''. Released in 2001, the film told the story of a [[Punjabi people|Punjabi]] Indian wedding, written by [[Sabrina Dhawan]]. Employing a small crew and casting some of Nair's acquaintances and relatives, the film grossed over $30 million worldwide. The film was awarded the [[Golden Lion]] award at the [[Venice Film Festival]], making Nair the first female recipient of the award.<ref>{{cite news |last=Whitney |first=Anna |date=10 September 2001 |title=Indian director is first woman to win Golden Lion |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/indian-director-is-first-woman-to-win-golden-lion-9225222.html |newspaper=The Independent |location=London |access-date=8 December 2009}}</ref>

Nair then directed the Golden Globe winning ''Hysterical Blindness'' (2002), followed by making [[William Makepeace Thackeray]]'s epic ''[[Vanity Fair (2004 film)|Vanity Fair]]'' (2004).{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

In 2007, Nair was asked to direct ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'', but turned it down to work on ''[[The Namesake (film)|The Namesake]]''.<ref name="Mira Nair"/> Based on the book by [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winner [[Jhumpa Lahiri]], Sooni Taraporevala's screenplay follows the son of Indian immigrants who wants to fit in with [[New York City|New York]] society, but struggles to get away from his family's traditional ways. The film was presented with the Dartmouth Film Award and was also honored with the Pride of India award at the [[Bollywood Movie Awards]].<ref>{{cite news |date=23 April 2007 |title=Bollywood to honour Mira Nair with 'Pride of India' award |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=a8b47023-270e-47f0-a6c2-399a750ab572& |newspaper=[[Hindustan Times]]|agency=Press Trust of India (PTI) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930055840/http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=a8b47023-270e-47f0-a6c2-399a750ab572& |archive-date=30 September 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=28 May 2007 |title=Mira Nair, Asha Parekh honoured at Bollywood awards in New York |url=http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/f825b92e19df636a/id/252152/cs/1/ |newspaper=Malaysia Sun |agency=Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207004720/http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/f825b92e19df636a/id/252152/cs/1/ |archive-date=7 February 2012 |access-date=8 December 2009}}</ref> This was followed by the [[Amelia Earhart]] biopic ''[[Amelia (2009 film)|Amelia]]'' (2009), starring [[Hilary Swank]] and [[Richard Gere]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

In 2012, Nair directed ''[[The Reluctant Fundamentalist (film)|The Reluctant Fundamentalist]]'', a thriller based on the best-selling novel by Mohsin Hamid. It opened the 2012 Venice Film Festival to critical acclaim and was released worldwide in early 2013. For the academic reception of Nair's adaptation of ''[[The Reluctant Fundamentalist]]'', ''The Journal of Commonwealth Literature'' questions "how the ambivalence and provocativeness of the 'source' text translates into the film adaptation, and the extent to which the film format makes the narrative more palatable and appealing to wider audiences as compared to the novel’s target readership."<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Lau|first1=Lisa|last2=Mendes|first2=Ana Cristina|year=2018|title=Post-9/11 re-orientalism: Confrontation and conciliation in Mohsin Hamid's and Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist|journal=The Journal of Commonwealth Literature|language=en|volume=53|issue=1|pages=80|doi=10.1177/0021989416631791|s2cid=148197670|issn=0021-9894|url=http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/1559/8/lau_jcl_2016.pdf}}</ref>

Nair's 2016 film ''[[Queen of Katwe]]'', a [[Walt Disney Pictures]] production, starred [[Lupita Nyong'o]] and [[David Oyelowo]] and was based on the story of Ugandan chess prodigy [[Phiona Mutesi]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

Nair's short films include ''A Fork, a Spoon and a Knight,'' inspired by the [[Nelson Mandela]] quote, ″Difficulties break some men but make others.″ She contributed to ''[[11'09"01 September 11]]'' (2002) in which 11 filmmakers reacted to the events of 11 September 2001. Other titles include ''How Can It Be?'' (2008), ''Migration'' (2008), ''New York, I Love You'' (2009) and her collaboration with, among others, [[Emir Kusturica]] and [[Guillermo Arriaga]] on the compilation feature ''[[Words with Gods]]''.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

===Other work===
A longtime activist, Nair set up an annual film-makers' laboratory, [[Maisha Film Lab]] in Kampala, Uganda. Since 2005, young directors in East Africa have been trained at this non-profit facility with the belief that "''If we don’t tell our stories, no one else will''".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dailyo.in/arts/mira-nair-films-monsoon-wedding-riz-ahmed-lupita-nyongo-fawad-khan-hollywood/story/1/13059.html |title=If we don't tell our stories no one else will: Mira Nair |last=Bamzai |first=Kaveree |publisher=DailyO |date=2016-09-22 |access-date=2018-09-24 }}</ref> Maisha is currently building a school with Architect Raul Pantaleo, winner of Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and his company Studio Tamassociati.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.autodesk.com/redshift/tamassociati-humanitarian-architecture/ |title=TAMassociati's Humanitarian Architecture |last=Sisson |first=Patrick |publisher=Autodesk |date=2015-04-09 |access-date=2018-09-24 }}</ref>

In 1998, she used the profits from ''Salaam Bombay!'' to create the [[Salaam Baalak Trust]] which works with street children in India.<ref>{{cite web|title=mira Nair|url=https://amakula.org/mira-nair/|website=Amakul International Film Festival|access-date=12 September 2017}}</ref>

A musical adaptation of ''[[Monsoon Wedding]]'', directed by Nair, premiered at the [[Berkeley Repertory Theatre]], running from 5 May to 16 July 2017.<ref>[http://www.playbill.com/article/monsoon-wedding-kicks-off-developmental-lab-today ″Monsoon Wedding Kicks Off Developmental Lab Today″], ''Playbill'', 30 May 2016</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Monsoon Wedding|url=https://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1617/10662.asp|website=berkeleyrep.org|access-date=19 September 2017}}</ref>

As of 2015, she lives in [[New York City]], where she is an adjunct professor in the Film Division of the School of Arts for [[Columbia University]]. The university has a collaboration with Nair's Maisha Film Lab, and offers opportunities for international students to work together and share their interests in film-making.<ref>{{cite web|title=Global Programs|url=http://arts.columbia.edu/global-programs?&home=1865|website=Columbia University School of the Arts|publisher=Columbia University|access-date=30 April 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150624181018/http://arts.columbia.edu/global-programs?&home=1865|archive-date=24 June 2015}}</ref>

In July 2020, journalist [[Ellen Barry (journalist)|Ellen Barry]] announced that her [[Pulitzer Prize]]-nominated story "The Jungle Prince of Delhi" about the "[[royal family of Oudh]]", published in ''[[The New York Times]]'', would be adapted into a web series for [[Amazon Studios]] by Nair.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Krishnankutty|first=Pia|date=2020-07-10|title=Mira Nair to adapt New York Times story 'The Jungle Prince of Delhi' into Amazon series|url=https://theprint.in/world/mira-nair-to-adapt-new-york-times-story-the-jungle-prince-of-delhi-into-amazon-series/458158/|access-date=2020-07-11|website=ThePrint}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-10|title=Mira Nair to adapt New York Times article The Jungle Prince of Delhi into a series|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/web-series/mira-nair-to-adapt-the-jungle-prince-of-delhi-amazon-series-6498783/|access-date=2020-07-11|website=The Indian Express}}</ref>

In March 2021 it was announced Nair would direct a ten episode TV series for [[Disney+]] reimagining the [[National Treasure (film series)|''National Treasure'' series]] with a new cast.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|date=2021-03-24|title=‘National Treasure’ TV Series With Latina Lead Greenlighted By Disney+; Mira Nair To Direct|url=https://deadline.com/2021/03/national-treasure-tv-series-reimagening-latina-lead-disney-plus-mira-nair-1234720950/|access-date=2021-03-24|website=Deadline|language=en-US}}</ref>

==Personal life==
In 1977, Nair met her first husband, [[Mitch Epstein]], when taking photography classes at Harvard University.<ref name="Applause Theater & Cinema Books"/> They divorced by 1987, and in 1988 Nair met her second husband, the [[Indians in Uganda|Indo-Ugandan]] political scientist [[Mahmood Mamdani]], while in [[Uganda]] doing research for the film ''Mississippi Masala''. Their son, [[Zohran Mamdani]], was born in 1991. Like his wife, Mamdani also teaches at [[Columbia University]].<ref name="Mira Nair"/> Zohran won the election for New York State Assembly in 2020. He was the Democratic nominee for the 36th Assembly District, ran unopposed in the general election after defeating incumbent Assembly Member [[Aravella Simotas]] in the Democratic primary election in June earlier.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Singh |first1=Yoshita |title=Mira Nair's son wins election to New York State assembly |url=https://www.rediff.com/news/report/mira-nairs-son-wins-election-to-ny-state-assembly/20201104.htm |publisher=[[Rediff.com]] |access-date=4 November 2020}}</ref>

Nair has been an enthusiastic [[yoga]] practitioner for decades; when making a film, she has the cast and crew start the day with a yoga session.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dupont |first=Joan |date=21 September 2001 |title=Mira Nair Peels Back Layers of Punjabi Society |url=http://mirabaifilms.com/wordpress/?page_id=32 |newspaper=International Herald Tribune |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091228182413/http://mirabaifilms.com/wordpress/?page_id=32 |archive-date=28 December 2009}}</ref>

==Political views==
In July 2013, Nair declined an invitation to the [[Haifa International Film Festival]] as a "guest of honor" to protest [[Israel]]'s policies toward [[State of Palestine|Palestine]]. In postings on her Twitter account, Nair stated "I will go to Israel when the walls come down. I will go to Israel when occupation is gone...I will go to Israel when the state does not privilege one religion over another. I will go to Israel when Apartheid is over. I will go to Israel, soon. I stand w/ [[Academic boycotts of Israel#The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel|Palestine for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]] (PACBI) & the larger [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions|Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions]] (BDS) Mov’t." Nair was subsequently praised by PACBI, which stated that her decision to boycott Israel "helps to highlight the struggle against colonialism and apartheid." She subsequently tweeted "I will go to Israel, soon."<ref>{{cite news |date=21 July 2013 |title=Film director Mira Nair boycotting Haifa festival |url=http://www.jta.org/2013/07/21/arts-entertainment/indian-film-director-boycotts-haifa-film-festival |publisher=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=23 July 2013 |title=Mira Nair turns down invite to Israel film festival |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hollywood/news-interviews/Mira-Nair-turns-down-invite-to-Israel-film-festival/articleshow/21240349.cms |newspaper=The Times of India|agency=Press Trust of India (PTI)}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Sherwood |first=Harriet |date=21 July 2013 |title=Mira Nair boycotts Haifa film festival |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/21/director-mira-nair-boycotts-haifa-festival |newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Anderman |first=Nirit |date=21 July 2013 |title=Prominent filmmaker boycotts Haifa festival to protest Israeli 'apartheid' |url=http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/.premium-1.537005 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=20 July 2013 |title=Mira Nair boycotts Israel Film Festival in Palestine's support |url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/579618/mira-nair-boycotts-israel-film-festival-in-palestines-support/ |newspaper=[[The Express Tribune]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=21 July 2013 |title=Award-winning director boycotts Haifa Film Festival to protest 'Apartheid'|url=http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Award-winning-director-boycotts-Haifa-Film-Festival-to-protest-Apartheid-320514 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable"
|+As A Director
!Year
!Title
!Notes
|-
|1979
|''Jama Street Masjid Journal''
|documentary
|-
|1982
|''So Far From India''
|documentary
|-
|1985
|''India Cabaret''
|TV Movie documentary
|-
|1987
|''Children of a Desired Sex''
|documentary
|-
|1988
|''[[Salaam Bombay!]]''
|Nominated - [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]
Nominated - [[BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language]]

Nominated - [[Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]
|-
|1991
|''[[Mississippi Masala]]''
|Nominated - Independent Spirit Award for Best Film
|-
|1993
|''The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat''
|Short
|-
|1995
|''[[The Perez Family]]''
|
|-
|1996
|''[[Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love]]''
|
|-
|1998
|''[[My Own Country]]''
|TV Movie for [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]]
|-
|2001
|''[[Monsoon Wedding]]''
|[[Golden Lion]]
Nominated - [[BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language]]

Nominated - [[Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]
|-
|2002
|''[[11'9"01 September 11]]''
|Segment - India
|-
|2002
|''[[Hysterical Blindness (film)|Hysterical Blindness]]''
|TV Movie
|-
|2004
|''[[Vanity Fair (2004 film)|Vanity Fair]]''
|
|-
|2006
|''[[The Namesake (film)|The Namesake]]''
|
|-
|2007
|''Migration..''
|Short
|-
|2008
|''[[New York, I Love You]]''
|Segment - "Kosher Vegetarian"
|-
|2008
|''[[8 (2008 film)|8]]''
|Segment - "How can it be?"
|-
|2009
|''[[Amelia (film)|Amelia]]''
|
|-
|2012
|''[[The Reluctant Fundamentalist (film)|The Reluctant Fundamentalist]]''
|
|-
|2014
|''[[Words With Gods]]''
|Segment - "God Room"
|-
|2016
|''[[Queen of Katwe]]''
|
|-
|2020
|''[[A Suitable Boy (series)|A Suitable Boy]]''
|Director, [[BBC One]] TV series.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/a-suitable-boy-cast|title=BBC - Cast announced for BBC One's A Suitable Boy, the first screen adaptation of Vikram Seth's classic novel - Media Centre|publisher=BBC}}</ref>
|}

==Awards==
[[File:Mira Nair at ZIFF 2013.jpg|thumb|Nair at the [[Zanzibar International Film Festival]], 2013]]{{More citations needed section|date=June 2020}}
She was awarded the [[India Abroad]] Person of the Year-2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/mar/29iapoy.htm |title=Mira Nair is India Abroad Person of the Year 2007 |date=29 March 2008 |publisher=[[Rediff.com]]}}</ref> In 2012 she was awarded India's third highest civilian award the [[Padma Bhushan]] by President of India, [[Pratibha Patil]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Jamkhandikar |first=Shilpa |date=25 January 2012 |title=Dharmendra, Shabana Azmi, Mira Nair to get Padma Bhushan |url=http://in.reuters.com/article/padma-bhushan-awards-idINDEE80O0IY20120125 |agency=Reuters}}</ref>

===Wins===
* 1985: Best Documentary Film, Global Village Film Festival: ''India Cabaret''
* 1986: Golden Athena, Athens International Film Festival: ''India Cabaret''
* 1986: Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival: ''India Cabaret''
* 1988: Audience Award, [[Cannes Film Festival]]: ''[[Salaam Bombay!]]''
* 1988: [[Caméra d'Or|Golden Camera]] (Best First Film), [[Cannes Film Festival]]: ''[[Salaam Bombay!]]''
* 1988: [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi]]: ''[[Salaam Bombay!]]''<ref>{{cite book|last=Taraporevala|first=Sooni|title=Salaam Bombay!|year=1989|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=0-14-012724-0|author2=Mira Nair}}</ref>
* 1988: [[National Board of Review Awards 1988|National Board of Review Award]] for Top Foreign Films: ''[[Salaam Bombay!]]''
* 1988: "Jury Prize", "Most Popular Film" and "[[Prize of the Ecumenical Jury]]" at [[Montreal World Film Festival]]: ''[[Salaam Bombay!]]''
* 1988: New Generation Award, [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1988|Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards]]
* 1988: Lilian Gish Award (Excellence in Feature Film), Los Angeles Women in Film Festival: ''[[Salaam Bombay!]]''
* 1991: [[Golden Osella]] (Best Original Screenplay), [[Venice Film Festival]]: ''[[Mississippi Masala]]'' (with [[Sooni Taraporevala]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Sloan|first=Jane|title=Reel women|year=2007|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-5738-4}}</ref>
* 1991: Critics Special Award, [[São Paulo International Film Festival]]: ''[[Mississippi Masala]]''
* 1992: Best Director (Foreign Film), [[Nastro d'Argento|Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists]]: ''[[Mississippi Masala]]''
* 1992: Asian Media Award, Asian American International Film Festival{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}
* 1993: [[Independent Spirit Award]] for Best Feature: ''[[Mississippi Masala]]''
* 2000: Special Mention (Documentary and Essay), Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming: ''The Laughing Club of India''
* 2001: [[Golden Lion]] (Best Film), [[Venice Film Festival]]: ''[[Monsoon Wedding]]''
* 2001: Laterna Magica Prize, [[Venice Film Festival]]: ''[[Monsoon Wedding]]''
* 2002: Audience Award, [[Canberra International Film Festival]]: ''[[Monsoon Wedding]]''
* 2002: Special Award for International Cinema, [[Zee Cine Awards]]: ''[[Monsoon Wedding]]''
* 2002: UNESCO Award, [[Venice Film Festival]]: ''[[11'9"01 September 11]]''
* 2003: [[Provincetown International Film Festival|Faith Hubley Memorial Award]], [[Provincetown International Film Festival]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=McKeenmckee@capecodonline.com|first=Natalie|title=Connie White to step down as fest's artistic director|url=https://www.capecodtimes.com/entertainmentlife/20160612/connie-white-to-step-down-as-fests-artistic-director|access-date=2020-12-29|website=capecodtimes.com|language=en}}</ref>
*2003: [[Arts First|Harvard Arts Medal]]<ref>{{cite web |title=History of the Harvard Arts Medal |url=https://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/harvard-arts-medal |publisher=Harvard University Office for the Arts |access-date=23 February 2019}}</ref>
* 2004: Faith Hubley Web of Life Award, [[Rochester-High Falls International Film Festival]]
* 2007: "Golden Aphrodite", Love is Folly International Film Festival ([[Bulgaria]]): ''[[The Namesake (film)|The Namesake]]''
* 2012 ; Padma Bhushan by Govt. of India<ref>{{cite web |date=27 January 2013 |title= Padma Awards Announced |url=http://www.pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=79881 |publisher=Press Information Bureau |access-date=27 January 2013}}</ref>

===Nominations===
* 1989: [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]: ''[[Salaam Bombay!]]''
* 1989: [[César Award for Best Foreign Film]] (''Meilleur film étranger''): ''[[Salaam Bombay!]]''
* 1989: [[Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]: ''[[Salaam Bombay!]]''
* 1990: [[BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language]]: ''[[Salaam Bombay!]]''
* 1990: [[Filmfare Best Director Award]]: ''[[Salaam Bombay!]]''
* 1990: [[Filmfare Best Movie Award]]: ''[[Salaam Bombay!]]''
* 1991: [[Golden Lion]] (Best Film), [[Venice Film Festival]]: ''[[Mississippi Masala]]''
* 1996: Golden Seashell, [[San Sebastián International Film Festival]]: ''[[Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love]]''
* 1999: Best Film, Verzaubert International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival: ''[[My Own Country]]''
* 2001: Screen International Award (Best Non-European Film), [[European Film Awards]]: ''[[Monsoon Wedding]]''
* 2001: [[Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]: ''[[Monsoon Wedding]]''
* 2002: [[BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language]]: ''[[Monsoon Wedding]]''
* 2003: Golden Star, [[International Film Festival of Marrakech]]: ''[[Hysterical Blindness (film)|Hysterical Blindness]]''
* 2003: [[César Award for Best Film from the European Union]]: ''[[11'9"01 September 11]]''
* 2004: [[Golden Lion]] (Best Film), [[Venice Film Festival]]: ''[[Vanity Fair (2004 film)|Vanity Fair]]''
* 2007: [[Gotham Awards 2007|Gotham Award]] for Best Film: ''[[The Namesake (film)|The Namesake]]''

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==Further reading==
*Jigna Desai: ''[https://archive.org/details/beyondbollywoodc0000desa Beyond Bollywood: The cultural politics of South Asian diasporic film]''. New York: Routledge, 2004, 280 pp. ill. {{ISBN|0-415-96684-1}} (inb.) / {{ISBN|0-415-96685-X}} (hft.)
*Gita Rajan: ''Pliant and compliant: colonial Indian art and postcolonial cinema''. ''Women''. Oxford (Print), ISSN 0957-4042 ; 13(2002):1, pp. 48–69.
*Alpana Sharma: ''Body matters: the politics of provocation in Mira Nair's films''. ''QRFV : Quarterly review of film and video'', ISSN 1050-9208 ; 18(2001):1, pp. 91–103.
*Pratibha Parmar: ''Mira Nair: filmmaking in the streets of Bombay''. ''Spare rib'', ISSN 0306-7971; 198, 1989, pp. 28–29.
*Gwendolyn Audrey Foster: ''[https://archive.org/details/womenfilmmakerso0000fost Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity]''. Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 1997. {{ISBN|0-8093-2120-3}}
* John Kenneth Muir: ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=HEte5ilhCTcC Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair]''. Hal Leonard, 2006. {{ISBN|1-55783-649-3}}, {{ISBN|978-1-55783-649-6}}.

==External links==
{{Commons category|Mira Nair}}
* [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/nair.html Mira Nair Bibliography] (via UC Media Resources Center Berkeley)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090226021949/http://www.sawnet.org/cinema/?Nair+Mira SAWNET biography]
* [http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Nair.html Biography]
* {{IMDb name|619762|Mira Nair}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051026191348/http://www.maishafilmlab.com/ Maisha Film Lab] in Kampala, Uganda
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828025202/http://lx.com/drinks/2007/03/01/mira-nair-award-winning-director-writer-producer/ Video Interview on LX.TV]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050405093558/http://athome.harvard.edu/dh/cmn.html A Conversation with Mira Nair] - Harvard @ Home program
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071128152521/http://www.mirabaifilms.com/bio.html Profile of Mira Nair] - on MirabaiFilms.com
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070926230236/http://sidewalkstv.com/specialfeatures/movies/namesake.html Video interview] with ''The Namesake'' director on ''[[Sidewalks Entertainment]]''
* [http://asiasociety.org/video/arts-culture/mira-nair-art-and-activism-complete Video: Mira Nair at the Asia Society], 10 Dec 2009
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120514033855/http://guru.bafta.org/mira-nair-interview-video Mira Nair: A Life in Pictures], [[BAFTA]] event video
*''The Fabulous Picture Show'' ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzoziVwT2uo part 1], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMZxvuyBdRo part 2]) - Master Class with Mira Nair at the Doha film festival, Al Jazeera English, Dec 2009
* {{IMDb title|id=0432361|title=Still, The Children Are Here}}

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Sajjad Zaheer

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'''Syed Sajjad Zaheer''' ({{lang-ur|{{Nastaliq|سید سجاد ظہیر}}}}) (5 November 1899 – 13 September 1973) was an [[Urdu language|Urdu]] writer, [[Marxist]] ideologue and radical [[revolutionary]] who worked in both India and Pakistan. In the pre-independence era, he was a member of the [[Communist Party of India]] and the [[Progressive Writers' Movement]]. Upon [[Independence of Pakistan|independence]] and [[Partition of India|partition]], he moved to the newly created [[Pakistan]] and became a founding member of the [[Communist Party of Pakistan]].

==Early life and education==
He was born in [[Lucknow]] and was the fourth son of [[Syed Wazir Hasan]], chief judge at the Lucknow Chief Court.<ref name=DawnSajjad>{{Cite web|last=InpaperMagazine|first=From|date=2010-11-07|title=Column: Voice of the poor|url=https://www.dawn.com/2010/11/07/column-voice-of-the-poor/|access-date=2020-12-26|website=DAWN.COM|language=en}}</ref> In 1927 he left for Oxford to complete his undergraduate studies but contracted tuberculosis in London and was sent to a sanatorium in Switzerland.<ref name=AngareyRupa>{{Cite book|last=Ẓahīr|first=Sajjād|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=41mPoAEACAAJ|title=Angarey: 9 Stories and a Play|date=2014|publisher=Rupa Publications India|isbn=978-81-291-3108-9|language=en}}</ref> On returning to England, he was influenced by the communist leader [[Shapurji Saklatvala]] and joined the Oxford Majlis. He attended the second Congress of the League against Imperialism held in Frankfurt, where he met Viren Chattopadhyay, [[Saumyendranath Tagore]], N.M. Jaisoorya and [[Raja Mahendra Pratap|Raja Pahendra Pratap]].<ref name=TheWire>{{Cite web|title=Sajjad Zaheer's Progressive Ideas Live on in Writers' Dissent|url=https://thewire.in/books/sajjad-zaheer-progressive-writers-association-urdu-literature|access-date=2020-12-26|website=The Wire}}</ref> He graduated from [[Oxford University]] with a degree in law. He started the newspaper ''Bharat'' in 1930. After finishing his studies at Oxford he travelled through Germany, Italy, Denmark and Austria on his journey back to India in 1932. In 1933 he returned to London to finish studying law at Lincoln's Inn.<ref name=AngareyRupa />

==Political career==
In 1935, he and novelist [[Mulk Raj Anand]] went to Paris to attend the International Congress for Defense of Culture organised by [[André Gide]]. Influenced by the conference he established the Indian Progressive Writers' Association in London.<ref name=AngareyRupa /> The first conference of the association was held on 9 and 10 April 1936. After returning to India, he organised the first conference of the Progressive Writers’ Association in Lucknow on April 9, 1936, and started working as its general secretary. He along with [[Sohan Singh Josh]] started the first Marxist journal in Urdu, ''Chingari'', in Saharanpur.<ref name=TheWire />

He became Uttar Pradesh state secretary of the [[Communist Party of India|Communist Party of India (CPI)]] as well as a member of the working committee of the [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1936. He was nominated in-charge of the Delhi branch of the CPI in 1939 and was jailed for two years during the Second World War for opposing Indian participation in it. After his release in
1942, he became the editor of the CPI newspaper ''Qaumi Jung'' (People's War) and ''Naya Zamana'' (New Age) in Bombay.<ref name=AngareyRupa/><ref name=TheHinduNoorani /> He also helped to organize the [[Indian People's Theatre Association|Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA)]] and the [[All India Kisan Sabha]].<ref name=AngareyPenguin>{{Cite book|last=Shingavi|first=Snehal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ffxsAwAAQBAJ&q=sajjad+zaheer|title=Angaaray|date=2018-06-05|publisher=Penguin UK|isbn=978-93-5118-695-3|language=en}}</ref><ref name=TheHinduNoorani>{{Cite web|last=NOORANI|first=A. G.|title=A versatile communist|url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/article30166829.ece|access-date=2020-12-27|website=Frontline|language=en}}</ref>

After [[Partition of India|partition]], Sajjad Zaheer along with [[Sibte Hassan|Sibte Hasan]] and [[Mian Iftikharuddin|Mian Iftekhar-ud-Din]] started the [[Communist Party of Pakistan]] and was appointed Secretary General of the party.<ref name=AngareyPenguin /> In 1951, he was arrested in the [[Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case]] along with [[Faiz Ahmad Faiz|Faiz Ahmed Faiz]]. He remained in jail for four years and upon release was given Indian citizenship by [[Jawaharlal Nehru]].<ref name=DawnSajjad/>

While in India he continued to work in cultural activities organized by the [[Communist Party of India]].<ref name=AngareyPenguin /> He revived the All India Progressive Writers’ Association, became secretary of the Indian chapter of the Afro-Asian Writers' Association, and also worked as editor of ''Awami Daur'' (People's Era)<ref name=AngareyPenguin /> and the daily ''Hayat''<ref name=DawnSajjad/>

He died in 1973 while attending a literary conference in [[Alma Ata]], Kazakhstan.<ref name=AngareyPenguin />

==Literary career==
Zaheer stated his literary career with a collection of short stories, ''[[Angarey]]'' (embers) in 1932. It had stories by Sajjad Zaheer, [[Ahmed Ali (writer)|Ahmed Ali]], [[Rashid Jahan]] and Mahmud-uz-Zafar and was banned in 1933 by the [[British Raj|British Government of India]] "for hurting the religious susceptibilities of a section of the community."<ref>{{cite web|title=Angaaray|url=http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/en/content/angaaray|publisher=Penguin Books India}}</ref> This gave rise to the [[Progressive Writers' Movement|All-India Progressive Writers' Movement]] & Association of which both Sajjad Zaheer and Ahmed Ali were co-founders.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Communism in Pakistan : politics and class activism 1947-1972|last=1961-|first=Ali, Kamran Asdar|isbn=9781784532000|location=London|pages=83|oclc=913850929|date = 30 June 2015}}</ref> In 1935 he wrote a novel called ''London ki Ek Raat'' based on his experience of London. In 1944 a collection of letters to his wife from the prisons of Lucknow and Allahabad was published as ''Nuqush-e-Zindan''. He also wrote ''Roshnai'', a history-cum-memoir of the early days of the progressive movement (1956), ''Zikr-e-Hafiz'', a critical look at the works of the legendary Persian poet [[Hafez (poet)|Hafiz]] (1956), and a collection of poems in ''[[vers libre]]'' called ''Pighla Neelam ''(1964).<ref name=TheWire />

In addition Zaheer also served as the editor of a number of papers and magazines throughout his career including ''Bharat'', ''Chingari'', ''Qaumi Jung'', ''Naya Zamana'', ''Awami Daur'' and ''Hayat''.<ref name=AngareyPenguin /><ref name=AngareyRupa/> He was also an avid translator, producing Urdu versions of Tagore's Gora, Voltaire's Candide and Shakespeare's Othello.<ref name=AngareyPenguin /><ref name=TheHinduNoorani />

==Personal life==
Sajjad and his wife [[Razia Sajjad Zaheer]] had four daughters, including Naseem Bhatia, who holds a PhD in history (ancient history) from a Russian university.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9KirgUTvXXcC&q=naseem+bhatia&pg=PA45 |title = Empowerment of the Indian Muslim Women|isbn = 9788175330634|last1 = Ruhela|first1 = Satya Pal|year = 1998}}</ref>

==Published writings==
The published works of Zaheer include.<ref name=AngareyRupa/>
* ''[[Angarey]]'' (Nizami Press, Lucknow, 1932)
* ''Beemaar'' (Jamia Press, Delhi)
* ''London Ki Ek Raat'' لندن کی ایک رات - (Halqaye-e-adab, Lucknow, 1942)
* ''Urdu, Hindi, Hindustani'' (Kutab Publishers, Bombay, 1947)
* ''Letters: Naquoosh-e-Zindaan'' (Maktaba Shahrah, Delhi, 1951)
* ''Zikr-e-Hafiz'' زکرِخافظ (Anjuman Tarraqui-e Urdu, Aligarh, 1956)
* ''Roshnai'' روشنائی Roshnai (Maktaba Urdu, Lahore, 1956)
* ''Pighla Nilam''پِگھلا نیلم (Nai Roshani Prakashan, Delhi, 1964)
* ''Meri Suno'' (Star Publishers, Delhi, 1967)
* ''Mazzamein-e-Sajjad Zaheer'' (published posthumously by the UP Urdu Academy, Lucknow, 1979)
* A translation of Shakespeare's ''[[Othello]]''
* A translation of ''[[Candide]]''
* A translation of ''[[Gora (novel)|Gora]]'' (novel written by [[Rabindranath Tagore|Tagore]])
* A translation of ''[[The Prophet (book)|The Prophet]]'' (written by [[Khalil Gibran]])

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book
| last = Zaheer
| first = Sajjad
| author-link = Sajjad Zaheer
| title = The Light: The History of the Movement for Progressive Literature in the Indo-Pakistan Sub Continent
| publisher =[[Oxford University Press]]
| year = 2006
| isbn = 0-19-547155-5}}
*[http://pd.cpim.org/2005/1218/12182005_sajjad%20zaheer.htm Naresh Nadeem, 'Sajjad Zaheer: A Life of Struggle & Creativity', ''People's Democracy'' 29:51 (18 December 2005)]
* ''Bose, Hiren K. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100216143947/http://chowk.com/articles/10111 Sajjad Zahir: The Voice of the Common Man]'' in [[Chowk.com|Chowk]]
* https://web.archive.org/web/20090424062127/http://jang.com.pk/thenews/feb2007-weekly/books%26people-01-02-2007/ Mughanni-I-Aatish Nafas: Sajjad Zaheer
* [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0B13FA3458177B93C4A9178AD85F478585F9&scp=1&sq=Sajjad%20Zaheer&st=cse] 6 jan-1953- New York Times Sajjad Zaheer is secretary of the Communist party in Pakistan
*[http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10817F8345E10728DDDA00A94DC405B8189F1D3&scp=3&sq=Sajjad%20Zaheer&st=cse] 29 Apr 1951-New York Times, Pakistani Red Chief Seized
* Urdu & secularism by A.G. Noorani [[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]] Volume 23 – Issue 17 :: 26 Aug. – 8 Sep 2006

==External links==
*[http://www.londonfictions.com/sajjad-zaheer-a-night-in-london.html Madhu Singh's article about Sajjad Zaheer's novel ''London ki ek raat'']

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Bhaskar Pillai

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{{short description|Indian cricketer}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=September 2016}}

{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Bhaskar Pillai
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| country = India
| fullname = Krishnan Bhaskar Pillai
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|2|27|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Thiruvananthapuram]], [[Kerala]], [[India]]
| batting = Right-handed batsman
| bowling = Right-arm off-break
| role = [[Batsman]]
| club1 = [[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]]
| year1 = 1982-1994
| columns = 2
| column1 = [[first-class cricket|FC]]
| matches1 = 95
| runs1 = 5443
| bat avg1 = 52.84
| 100s/50s1 = 18/21
| top score1 = 222*
| deliveries1 = 238
| wickets1 = 2
| bowl avg1 = 68.50
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 1/20
| catches/stumpings1 = 100/1
| column2 = [[List A cricket|List A]]
| matches2 = 37
| runs2 = 926
| bat avg2 = 38.58
| 100s/50s2 = 1/6
| top score2 = 104
| deliveries2 = 9
| wickets2 = 0
| bowl avg2 = -
| fivefor2 = 0
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = -
| catches/stumpings2 = 9/0
| date = 10 December
| year = 1994
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/17/17904/17904.html CricketArchive
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'''Krishnan Bhaskar Pillai''' (born 27 February 1963) is a former [[India]]n cricketer who was a prolific run scorer for [[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]] and [[North Zone cricket team|North Zone]].

A right-handed batsman, he had particular success between 1983 and 1989 in the [[Ranji Trophy]] where he averaged about 70. Although he never got to play international cricket for [[India national cricket team|India]], he was once a standby for India's tour of Sri Lanka in 1985. He also once represented the [[Rest of India cricket team|Rest of India]] to play against Bombay at Nagpur and he scored a century in the second innings. On September 2016, he was appointed as Delhi senior team coach.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/bhaskar-pillari-appointed-new-delhi-senior-team-coach-vijay-dahiya-u-23-3023061/ | title = KP Bhaskar appointed new Delhi senior team coach, Vijay Dahiya U-23 coach | work = [[Indian Express]] |date =September 10, 2016| access-date = June 18, 2017}}</ref>

In August 2018, he was appointed as the coach of [[Uttarakhand cricket team]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/24532976/bcci-eases-entry-new-domestic-teams-logistical-challenges-emerge |title=BCCI eases entry for new domestic teams as logistical challenges emerge |work=ESPN Cricinfo |accessdate=31 August 2018}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{cricinfo|ref=india/content/player/27192.html}}

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Vivek Razdan

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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Vivek Razdan
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|8|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Delhi]], [[India]]
| country = India
| batting = Right-hand bat
| bowling = Right-arm fast-medium
| columns = 2
| column1 = [[Test cricket|Tests]]
| matches1 = 2
| runs1 = 6
| bat avg1 = -
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 6*
| deliveries1 = 290
| wickets1 = 5
| bowl avg1 = 28.20
| fivefor1 = 1
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 5/79
| catches/stumpings1 = -/-
| column2 = [[One Day International|ODIs]]
| matches2 = 3
| runs2 = 23
| bat avg2 = 11.50
| 100s/50s2 = 0/0
| top score2 = 18
| deliveries2 = 84
| wickets2 = 1
| bowl avg2 = 77.00
| fivefor2 = 0
| tenfor2 = n/a
| best bowling2 = 1/37
| catches/stumpings2 = 4/-
| date = 4 February
| year = 2006
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'''Vivek Razdan''' ({{Audio|Vivek_Razdan.ogg|pronunciation}}) (born 25 August 1969) is a former [[India]]n [[cricketer]] who played in two [[Test cricket|Tests]] and 3 [[One Day International|ODIs]] between 1989 and 1990.<ref name=cricinfo1>{{cite web|title=India / Players / Vivek Razdan|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/33151.html|website=www.espncricinfo.com|publisher=ESPN CricInfo|access-date=27 July 2014}}</ref><ref>http://www.mid-day.com/articles/remembering-sachin-tendulkar-s-first-test/237407</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110222052610/http://www.hindustantimes.com/photos-news/Photos-Sport/Sachin50thCentury/Article4-640501.aspx Hindustan Times]</ref> After his retirement, he became a [[Delhi]]-based cricket coach and commentator.

He attended [[St. Columba's School, Delhi]] and completed his Class 12 in 1987 from the [[Sardar Patel Vidyalaya]], Delhi.<ref>{{cite web | title =Vivek Razdan | work =Achievers | publisher =Old Columbans' Association | url =http://www.oldcolumban.net/achievers.html | access-date =9 April 2012 | url-status =dead | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20120226125705/http://www.oldcolumban.net/achievers.html | archive-date =26 February 2012 | df =dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last =Santhanam | first =S. | title =The best colts have come from this stable | newspaper =The Indian Express | publisher =The Indian Express | date =20 July 1998 | url =http://www.indianexpress.com/Storyold/42766/ | access-date =9 April 2012 }}</ref>
In an extremely brief Test career, Vivek Razdan bowled in just two innings for India on the 1989 tour of Pakistan, taking five wickets in the second of them in a fairytale beginning but he faded away just as swiftly as he had risen into the limelight. Having cut his teeth at the MRF Pace Foundation, Razdan, then 20, was selected for the trip to Pakistan on the basis of just two first class appearances, one each in the Duleep and Irani Trophies. After making his Test debut in virtual anonymity in the second Test at Faislabad, Razdan came roaring back, using some disconcerting movement off the wicket to claim 5-79 in the final Test at Sialkot and help India to a 74-run first innings lead.

That was to be the extent of Razdan's Test opportunities and although going on the subsequent trip to New Zealand, he was not played in the Tests and took just one first class wicket on the entire tour. His third and last ODI against Sri Lanka was at home in the 90-91 season during which, based in Madras as an MRF trainee, he represented Tamil Nadu in the Ranji Trophy. Razdan was a key member of the Delhi squad that lifted the Ranji Trophy in 1991-92, making two hundreds, against Services off only 96 balls, and in the quarterfinal against Bengal, besides a crucial 93 in the final against his former team, Tamil Nadu. Apart from his exploits with the bat, he also grabbed 23 wickets at 25.82. But he soon slipped backstage and into anonymity, with his first-class career coming to a full stop two seasons later. He has since taken up television commentary.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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Indrani Haldar

2021-08-26T13:58:50Z

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{{short description|Indian actress}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2014}}
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{{BLP sources|date=October 2013}}
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| image = Indrani Haldar.jpg
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| caption = Indrani Halder
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1971|01|6}}
| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| years_active = 1986–present
| height = 168 cm
| occupation = Actress
| spouse = Bhaskar Roy Amarendraa Ghosh
| partner = Sanjeeb Dasgupta
| birth_name = Mamoni
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| alma_mater = [[Jogamaya Devi College]]
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'''Indrani Haldar''' (born 6 January 1971) is an Indian actress who is mostly known for her work in [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali cinema]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinestaan.com/people/indrani-haldar-20729|title=Indrani Haldar movies, filmography, biography and songs - Cinestaan.com|website=Cinestaan|access-date=2019-04-07|archive-date=2 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402184831/https://www.cinestaan.com/people/indrani-haldar-20729|url-status=live}}</ref> She was conferred with a [[National Film Award|National Award]], three [[Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards|BFJA Awards]] and two [[Anandalok Puraskar|Anandalok Awards]].

Halder made her debut in 1986 with the Bengali TV series ''Tero Parbon'' directed by Jochon Dastidar.<ref>{{Cite web|title=বাংলার ঘরে ঘরে 'তেরো পার্বণ' - Anandabazar|url=https://www.anandabazar.com/supplementary/rabibashoriyo/ব-ল-র-ঘর-ঘর-ত-র-প-র-বণ-1.121643|access-date=2021-01-06|website=anandabazar.com|language=bn}}</ref> She made her big screen debut opposite [[Prosenjit Chatterjee]] in ''Mandira'' (1990).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Four much fun|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/four-much-fun/cid/1424338|access-date=2021-01-06|website=www.telegraphindia.com}}</ref> She has appeared in numerous films, telefilms and TV series and hit the pinnacle of her career with the Bengali TV series ''[[Goyenda Ginni]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title='শাশুড়িদের ট্যাঁকে পুরতে হলে রসে-বশে রাখ'|url=https://www.anandabazar.com/entertainment/interview-of-goyenda-ginni-actress-indrani-haldar-dgtl-1.315465|access-date=2021-01-06|website=anandabazar.com|language=bn}}</ref> She appeared in critically acclaimed films such as ''Charachar'', ''Dahan'', ''Anu'', ''Sajhbatir Rupkathara'', ''Faltu'', ''Tokhon Teish'', ''Mayurakshi'' to name a few.<ref>{{Cite web|title=সামাজিক বার্তাতেই এখনও রাজেন্দ্রাণী|url=https://eisamay.indiatimes.com/entertainment/cinema/actress-indrani-halder-still-ruling-the-industry-at-her-own-terms/articleshow/78168590.cms|access-date=2021-01-06|website=EI Samay|language=bn}}</ref> She has also worked at [[Maa Shakti]] by BR Chopra

==Early life==
Indrani was born in the city of [[Kolkata]]. Her father is Sanjoy Haldar. She finished her schooling from the Multipurpose Girls' School and graduated from [[Jogamaya Devi College]], an affiliated women's college of [[University of Calcutta]]. She was trained in classical dance by Guru Thankamani Kutty.

==Career==
Indrani made her acting debut in the television serial ''Tero Parban'' (1986).<ref name="website">{{cite web | title = Star, Artist | publisher = Rediff | author = Chatterji, Shoma A. | url = http://www.rediff.com/entertai/1999/aug/11ind.htm | access-date = 2007-03-20 | archive-date = 19 November 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071119131451/http://www.rediff.com/entertai/1999/aug/11ind.htm | url-status = live }}</ref> She lived in [[Mumbai]] during 2008 to 2013 to act in [[Hindi]] TV serials.<ref name="star">{{cite web|url=http://thedailystar.net/showbiz/indrani-haldar-bengal-and-beyond-58959|title=INDRANI HALDAR BENGAL AND BEYOND|author=Rafi Hossain|date=2015-01-13|publisher=[[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|The Daily Star]]|access-date=2015-01-13|archive-date=13 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113064321/http://www.thedailystar.net/showbiz/indrani-haldar-bengal-and-beyond-58959|url-status=live}}</ref>
 Her most notable work includes ''[[Biyer Phool]]'', cast along with [[Rani Mukherjee]]. Currently, she is acting in the [[Star Jalsha]] serial ''Shrimoyee'' as the lead actress.She is known for her work in 'Jara brishtite bhijechilo'directed by Anjan das,"Angshumaner Chobi", directed by Atanu ghosh,"Dahan", directed by Rituparno ghosh,"Sanjhbatir Rupkathara", directed by Anjan das,"Anu", directed by Satarupa Sannyal, "Takhan Teish" directed by Atanu Ghosh,"Faltu", directed by Anjan das,"Dekha" directed by Gautam Ghosh,"Debdas" directed by Shakti samanta,Lal darja directed by Budhyadeb dasgupta,nilimay nil directed by Biresh chaterjee,Swet pathorer Thala directedby Prabhat Roy.Her commercial success included Bier fool,Prem sanghat,Antortomo,Barkone,Chowdhuri Paribar,Jay bijay,Apon holo por,Gharer laxmi,Noyoner alo,Satyam sibam sundaram,Mandira,Biswas obiswas,Saikat sangeet,sagar banya,Jamaibabu,Sesh Asroy etc. She shared screen mostly with Prasenjit chatterjee,Tapash paul,Chiranjit chakraborty,Abhishek chaterjee,Bhaskar banerjee,Sanjib dasgupta.Her one of the Hindi film is 'Bhairav' with Bollywood star Mithun Chakrabarty .She is often compared with Rituparna sengupta and Debosree Roy for her work in Bengali film.She is the only leading actress of Bengal industry who is working in film as well as
in television very smoothly. She is often called "Queen of Bengali television industry'.Her television serials included Sujata in Sony TV,somoy in Ruposhi bangla,Goyenda ginni & Sima Rekha in Zbangla, Srimoyee in Star jalsa,Tero Parbon in DD bangla etc.

==Filmography==
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* ''[[Biswas Abiswas]]'' (with [[Prosenjit Chatterjee]])
* ''[[Saptami]]'' (with [[Prosenjit Chatterjee]])
* ''[[Gouri (film)|Gouri]]'' (with [[Tapas Pal]])
* ''[[Nilimay Nil]]'' (with [[Tapas Pal]])
* ''[[Antortomo]]'' (with [[Tapas Pal]])
* ''[[Jaybijay]]'' (with [[Chiranjit Chakraborty]])
* ''[[Prem Sanghat]]'' (with [[Chiranjit Chakraborty]])
* ''[[Debor]]'' (with Tapash Paul)
* ''[[Bhalobasha]]'' (with Prasenjit Chatterjee, Savitri Chatterjee, Manaj Mitra, Bharat Kaul)
* ''[[Antarbash]]'' (with Debosree Roy, Chiranjeet Chakrabarty, Firdaus Ahmed)
* ''[[Tin Bhuboner Paare]]''
* ''[[Sesh Ashray]]'' (with Arjun Chakraborty)
* ''[[Saikat Sangeet]]''
* ''[[Sagar Banya]]'' (with Prasenjit Chatterjee, Abhisek Chatterjee)
* ''[[Chakravyuha]]''
* ''[[Atltaayi]]'' (with [[Chiranjit Chakraborty|Chiranjeet Chakrabarty]])
* ''[[Jeebon Pakhi]]''
* ''[[Ebong Tumi Aar Aami]]'' (with Sanjib Dasgupta, Soumitra Chatterjee)
* ''[[Daydayikta]]'' (with Prasenjit Chatterjee, Ranjit Mallick, Rituparna Sengupta)
* ''[[Apon Holo Par]]'' (with Prasenjit Chatterjee)
* ''[[Sampradaan]]'' (Directed by Bappaditya Banerjee, with Anusuya Majumdar, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty)
* ''[[Shwet Patharer Thala]]'' (Directed by Prabhat Roy, with Aparna Sen, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Dipankar Dey)
* ''[[Kaancher Prithibi]]'' (with Ayan Banerjee, Labani Sarkar)
* ''[[Daan Protidan]]'' (with Tapash Paul, Sukhen Das, Koushik Banerjee, Rachana Banerjee)
* ''[[Charachar]]'' (1993) (Directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta)
* ''[[Biyer Phool]]'' (1996) (with Prasenjit Chatterjee, Rani Mukherjee)
* ''[[Jamaibabu]]'' (with Tapash Paul, Abhisek Chatterjee)
* ''[[Lal Darja]]'' (1997) (Directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta)
* ''[[Dahan (1997 film)|Dahan]]'' (1997) (with Rituparna Sengupta)
* ''[[Anu (1998 film)|Anu]]'' (Directed by Satarupa Sanyal)
* ''[[Paromitar Ek Din]]'' (2000)
* ''[[Dekha]]'' (2001) (with Soumitra Chatterjee)
* ''[[Bhairav (film)|Bhairav]]'' (2001)
* ''[[Bor Kone]]'' (with Prasenjit Chatterjee)
* ''[[Saanjhbatir Roopkathara]]''
* ''[[Devdas (2002 Bengali film)|Debdas]]'' (2002)
* ''[[Anandalok]]''
* ''[[Assassin]]''
* ''[[Faltu]]'' (2006)
* ''[[Asamapto]]''
* ''[[Aankush]]''
* ''[[Jara Brishtitey Bhijechhilo]]'' (2007)
* ''[[Raatporir Rupkatha]]'' (with Jackie Shroff)
* ''[[Chowdhary Paribar]]''
* ''[[Angshumaner Chhobi]]'' (2009)
* ''[[Noyoner Alo]]''
* ''[[Antim Swash Sundar]]''
* ''[[Takhan Teish]]'' (2010)
* ''[[Mistake (2013 film)|Mistake]]'' (2013)
* ''[[Strings of Passion]]'' (2014)
* ''[[Aro Akbar]]'' (2015) (with rituparna,rupa ganguli)
* ''Drishyantar'' (with srabanti chatterjee)
* ''[[Mayurakshi]]''
*Banshiwala(Directed by Anjan das ,co artist Paoli dam,sayan munshi )
*buk bhora bhalobasa (with arun govil)
*sagor banya(with prasenjit,abhishek)
*dabidar(with tapash paul)
*dadabhai(with chiranjit)
*Thikana rajpath(with debosree,Ferdouse)
*Antorbas(with chiranjit)

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==Television and short films==
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* ''[[Seemarekha]]'' as Seema and Rekha-Dual role ([[Zee Bangla]])
* ''[[Goyenda Ginni]]' as Poroma ([[Zee Bangla]])
* ''[[Sreemoyee]]'' (Star Jalsha)
* [[Savitri - EK Prem Kahani]] as Leena Roy Choudhary (2013)
* ''[[Maryada: Lekin Kab Tak?]]''
* ''Fakir''
* ''Tithir Atithi''
* ''Kuasha Jakhan'' (with soumitra chaterjee)
* ''Bahanno Episode''(Directed by Rituporno ghosh)
* ''Tamasharekha''
* ''Purbo Purush''
* ''Bhool Thikana''
* ''Jeebon Rekha''
* ''Hamaari Shaadi''(Directed by Basu chatterjee)
* ''Tero Parban''
* ''Prashchito (NTV Bengali Telefilm) ''
* ''Pinzor (NTV Bengali Telefilm)''
* ''[[Sujata (TV series)|Sujata]]'' produced by BR chopra
*''[[Maa Shakti]]'' by BR Chopra
* ''Somoy''(with Abir chatterjee,Parno mitra)
* ''Savitri''
*"sanai(Akash bangla,co artist Arunima ghosh)
*Rajmahal(DD bangla)
* ''Bahnishikha''
* ''Khonik Bosonto'' (BTV Telefilm 2002)
* ''Sange Indrani'' - a weekly interview on ''Tara TV'' featuring celebrity guests, hosted by Haldar
{{div col end}}
==Mahalaya==
{| class="wikitable"
! Year !! Channel !! Show Name !! Role !! Notes
|-
| 2003 || [[DD Bangla]] || Maa Elo Oi || Devi Mahisasurmardini ||
|-
| 2016 || [[Zee Bangla]] || [[Zee_Bangla#Mahalaya|Matrirupeno]] || Devi Mahisasurmardini || <ref>{{Cite web|title=Zee Bangla to feature Mahalaya special programme 'Matrirupeno'|url=https://www.tellychakkar.com/tv/tv-news/zee-bangla-feature-mahalaya-special-programme-matrirupeno-160920|date=20 September 2016}}</ref>
|-
| 2017 || [[Zee Bangla]] || [[Zee_Bangla#Mahalaya|Rupang Dehi Jayang Dehi]] || Devi Jayanti,Maangala,Kali,Bhadrakali,Kapalini and Mahisasurmardini || <ref>{{Cite web|title=Indrani Halder plays six Devi Durga avatars in Zee Bangla's Mahalaya|url=https://www.tellychakkar.com/tv/tv-news/indrani-halder-plays-six-devi-durga-avatars-zee-banglas-mahalaya-170909|date=22 September 2017}}</ref>
|-
| 2019 || [[Star Jalsha]] || Mahisasurmardini || Dance Performance ||
|}

==Awards==
*Best actress award at the Madrid International Film Festival for ''[[Jara Bristite Bhijechhilo]]'' (2008).<ref>[http://www.screenindia.com/news/indrani-haldar-bags-best-actress-award-in-spain/321912/ Indrani Haldar bags best actress award in Spain] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109125331/http://www.screenindia.com/news/Indrani-Haldar-bags-best-actress-award-in-Spain/321912/ |date=9 January 2009 }}</ref>
* [[National Film Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] (1998), for ''[[Dahan (1997 film)|Dahan]]'' with [[Rituparna Sengupta]], (co-star), 42nd [[National Film Awards|National Film Festival of India]].
* Kalakar Awards Best Actress [Television] for Aroti in 1997
* Kalakar Awards Best Actress [Television] for ''Kuasha Jakhan'' (1998)
* Kalakar Awards Best Actress [Television] for ''Kuasha Jakhan'' (1998)
* Kalakar Awards Best Actress [Film] for ''Ma Shakti'' (2002)
*Bharat Nirman Award - Best Actress Award (2004)
* Kalakar Awards Best Actress [Television] for ''Pinjor'' (2005)
* Kalakar Awards Best Actress [Television] for ''Bonnishikha'' (2006)
* BFJA - Best Actress Award for ''[[Charachar]]'' (1995)
* BFJA - Best Actress Award for ''Sanjhbatir Rupkathara'' (2003)
* BFJA - Best Supporting Actress Award for ''Faltu'' (2007)
* Anondalok Award - Best Actress Award for ''Dahan'' (1999)
* Anondalok Award - Best Actress Award for ''Anu'' (2000)
* Kalakar Awards - Best Actress Award for TV Serial ''Sujjata'' (2009)
* Zee Bangla Sonar Sansar Awards - Sara Bouma Award for ''Poroma'' (2016)
*Paschimbanga Tele Academy Award - Best Actress Award for ''Paroma'' (2017)
* Zee Bangla Sonar Sansar Awards - Best Villain (female) Award for ''Seemantini'' (2018)
* Zee Bangla Sonar Sansar Awards - Versatile Actress (2018)
* Paschimbanga Tele Academy Awards - Best Actress Award for ''Sreemoyee'' (2019)
*Star Jalsha Parivar Awards - Sera Maa Award for ''Sreemoyee'' (2021)
*Star Jalsha Parivar Awards - Sera Bouma Award for ''Sreemoyee'' (2021)

==Politics==
Halder joined [[All India Trinamool Congress]] on 21 July 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://abpananda.abplive.in/video/21st-july-actress-indrani-halder-joins-tmc-party-363444 |title=তৃণমূলে যোগ দিলেন অভিনেত্রী ইন্দ্রাণী হালদার |date=21 July 2017 |access-date=10 October 2019 |archive-date=10 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191010062151/https://abpananda.abplive.in/video/21st-july-actress-indrani-halder-joins-tmc-party-363444 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0354795}}
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