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==Films==
==Films==
[[File:AnandPatwardhan at Kollam.jpeg|thumb|300px|Patwardhan during a screening of [[Ram ke Naam]] at Kollam]]
[[File:AnandPatwardhan at Kollam.jpeg|thumb|300px|Patwardhan during a screening of [[Ram ke Naam]] at Kollam]]
Virtually all of Patwardhan's documentary films have faced censorship from the Indian government, eventually being cleared after legal action. His film ''[[Bombay: Our City]]'' was shown on TV after a four-year court case,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main13.asp?filename=In070205Short_is.asp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912213520/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main13.asp?filename=In070205Short_is.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 September 2012 |title=Tehelka - The People's Paper |work=tehelka.com }}</ref> while ''[[Father, Son, and Holy War]]'' (1995) was adjudged in 2004 as one of 50 most memorable international documentaries of all time by DOX, Europe's leading documentary film magazine. Father, Son, and Holy War was shown on India's National Network, [[Doordarshan]], only in the year 2006, 11 years after its making, after a prolonged court battle which lasted ten years and ended with the nation's Supreme Court ordering the network to telecast the film without any cuts.<ref>http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2318/stories/20060922003609900.htm Father, Son and Holy War] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218223241/http://hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2318/stories/20060922003609900.htm |date=18 February 2009 }} [[Frontline (magazine)|The Frontline]], [[The Hindu]], September 2006.</ref>
Virtually all of Patwardhan's documentary films have faced censorship from the Indian government, eventually being cleared after legal action. His film ''[[Bombay: Our City]]'' was shown on TV after a four-year court case,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main13.asp?filename=In070205Short_is.asp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912213520/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main13.asp?filename=In070205Short_is.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 September 2012 |title=Tehelka - The People's Paper |work=tehelka.com }}</ref> while ''[[Father, Son, and Holy War]]'' (1995) was adjudged in 2004 as one of 50 most memorable international documentaries of all time by DOX, Europe's leading documentary film magazine. Father, Son, and Holy War was shown on India's National Network, [[Doordarshan]], only in the year 2006, 11 years after its making, after a prolonged court battle which lasted ten years and ended with the nation's Supreme Court ordering the network to telecast the film without any cuts.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090218223241/http://hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2318/stories/20060922003609900.htm Article Title] Father, Son and Holy War]  [[Frontline (magazine)|The Frontline]], [[The Hindu]], September 2006.</ref>


The [[Central Board of Film Certification]] (CBFC), refused to certify his next film, ''[[War and Peace (2002 film)|War and Peace]]'', released in 2002. The board demanded 21 cuts before it would be certified.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04E4D6143CF937A15751C1A9649C8B63 Filmmaker's Battle to Tell India's Story in India] [[The New York Times]] 24 December 2002.</ref> Patwardhan took the government to court, leading to the film being banned for over a year.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.patwardhan.com/Censorship/Index_Censorship.htm |title=Censorship and Litigation}}</ref> However, after a court battle, Patwardhan won the right to screen his film without a single cut.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3142039.stm Alone against India's nuclear nationalism] [[BBC News (TV channel)|BBC News]] 12 August 2003.</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/anand-patwardhan.shtml Director Interview] [[BBC Four]], 4 August 2003.</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/war-and-peace.shtml Film Review] [[BBC Four]], 2002.</ref>  As with his previous films, Patwardhan also successfully fought to force a reluctant national broadcaster, [[Doordarshan]], to show this film on their national network. It was commercially released in multiplexes in 2005.<ref name=tehel>[https://archive.today/20120912213520/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main13.asp?filename=In070205Short_is.asp War and Peace hits the box office for the first time in India] [[Tehelka]], 25 June 2005.</ref>
The [[Central Board of Film Certification]] (CBFC), refused to certify his next film, ''[[War and Peace (2002 film)|War and Peace]]'', released in 2002. The board demanded 21 cuts before it would be certified.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04E4D6143CF937A15751C1A9649C8B63 Filmmaker's Battle to Tell India's Story in India] [[The New York Times]] 24 December 2002.</ref> Patwardhan took the government to court, leading to the film being banned for over a year.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.patwardhan.com/Censorship/Index_Censorship.htm |title=Censorship and Litigation}}</ref> However, after a court battle, Patwardhan won the right to screen his film without a single cut.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3142039.stm Alone against India's nuclear nationalism] [[BBC News (TV channel)|BBC News]] 12 August 2003.</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/anand-patwardhan.shtml Director Interview] [[BBC Four]], 4 August 2003.</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/war-and-peace.shtml Film Review] [[BBC Four]], 2002.</ref>  As with his previous films, Patwardhan also successfully fought to force a reluctant national broadcaster, [[Doordarshan]], to show this film on their national network. It was commercially released in multiplexes in 2005.<ref name=tehel>[https://archive.today/20120912213520/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main13.asp?filename=In070205Short_is.asp War and Peace hits the box office for the first time in India] [[Tehelka]], 25 June 2005.</ref>
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** Best Film at [[Mumbai International Film Festival]] in 2002
** Best Film at [[Mumbai International Film Festival]] in 2002
** FIPRESCI International Critics' Award at [[Sydney Film Festival]] in 2002
** FIPRESCI International Critics' Award at [[Sydney Film Festival]] in 2002
** Best Documentary in [[Karachi International Film Festival]] in 2003<ref>[http://www.karafilmfest.com/pastkaras_2003/pastkaras_2003_awardcitations.shtml 3rd KaraFilm Festival] [[Karachi International Film Festival]], website.</ref>
** Best Documentary in [[Karachi International Film Festival]] in 2003<ref>[http://www.karafilmfest.com/pastkaras_2003/pastkaras_2003_awardcitations.shtml 3rd KaraFilm Festival] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828141135/http://www.karafilmfest.com/pastkaras_2003/pastkaras_2003_awardcitations.shtml |date=28 August 2008 }} [[Karachi International Film Festival]], website.</ref>
** [[National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film]], India, 2004,<ref>[http://www.dff.nic.in/51nationalfilmawards.htm 51st National Film Awards - 2004] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501221848/http://www.dff.nic.in/51nationalfilmawards.htm |date=1 May 2008 }} Official listings [[Directorate of Film Festivals]] Official website.</ref> etc.
** [[National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film]], India, 2004,<ref>[http://www.dff.nic.in/51nationalfilmawards.htm 51st National Film Awards - 2004] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501221848/http://www.dff.nic.in/51nationalfilmawards.htm |date=1 May 2008 }} Official listings [[Directorate of Film Festivals]] Official website.</ref> etc.
* 2006: ''Images You Didn't See'' : Music video that interprets images gleaned from the net-images that either never appear in the mainstream media, or images whose import are masked behind a velvet curtain of global infotainment.
* 2006: ''Images You Didn't See'' : Music video that interprets images gleaned from the net-images that either never appear in the mainstream media, or images whose import are masked behind a velvet curtain of global infotainment.
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** Firebird Award for Best documentary, Hong Kong Film Festival, 2012<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000331/2012 |title=Golden Firebird Award, Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2012 |publisher= IMDb |access-date=1 January 2014}}</ref>
** Firebird Award for Best documentary, Hong Kong Film Festival, 2012<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000331/2012 |title=Golden Firebird Award, Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2012 |publisher= IMDb |access-date=1 January 2014}}</ref>
** [[National Film Award – Special Jury Award (Non-Feature Film)|Special Jury Prize]], [[National Film Awards]], India, 2012<ref name="59thaward">{{cite press release|url=http://pib.nic.in/release/rel_print_page.asp?relid=80734|title=59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced|publisher=Press Information Bureau (PIB), India|access-date= 1 January 2014}}</ref>
** [[National Film Award – Special Jury Award (Non-Feature Film)|Special Jury Prize]], [[National Film Awards]], India, 2012<ref name="59thaward">{{cite press release|url=http://pib.nic.in/release/rel_print_page.asp?relid=80734|title=59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced|publisher=Press Information Bureau (PIB), India|access-date= 1 January 2014}}</ref>
** Bartok Prize, Jean Rouch Film International Film Festival, 2012<ref>{{citation|url=http://comitedufilmethnographique.com/palmares-award-winning-films/ |title=Palmarès / Award-winning films 2012 |publisher= Jean Rouch Film International Film Festival |access-date=1 January 2014}}</ref>
** Bartok Prize, Jean Rouch Film International Film Festival, 2012<ref>{{citation|url=http://comitedufilmethnographique.com/palmares-award-winning-films/ |title=Palmarès / Award-winning films 2012 |date=19 November 2012 |publisher= Jean Rouch Film International Film Festival |access-date=1 January 2014}}</ref>
* 2018: ''Reason'' / ''Vivek'': the war between faith and rationality.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://patwardhan.com/|title=Films of Anand Patwardhan|language=en-US|access-date=2 June 2019}}</ref> An eight-part documentary.
* 2018: ''Reason'' / ''Vivek'': the war between faith and rationality.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://patwardhan.com/|title=Films of Anand Patwardhan|language=en-US|access-date=2 June 2019}}</ref> An eight-part documentary.
** IDFA Award for best feature-length documentary, 2018<ref>Damon Wise, [https://variety.com/2018/film/festivals/idfa-awards-2018-the-jury-sees-reason-1203034904/ "IDFA Awards 2018: The Jury Sees 'Reason'"], ''Variety'', 21 November 2018.</ref>
** IDFA Award for best feature-length documentary, 2018<ref>Damon Wise, [https://variety.com/2018/film/festivals/idfa-awards-2018-the-jury-sees-reason-1203034904/ "IDFA Awards 2018: The Jury Sees 'Reason'"], ''Variety'', 21 November 2018.</ref>
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* [https://archive.today/20120913050702/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main34.asp?filename=Ws1361007All_the.asp All the dire predictions of communal carnage made in my film came true]
* [https://archive.today/20120913050702/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main34.asp?filename=Ws1361007All_the.asp All the dire predictions of communal carnage made in my film came true]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100208230215/http://www.cnngo.com/mumbai/play/anand-patwardhan-258893 Interview: Firebrand filmmaker Anand Patwardhan CNNGO Website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100208230215/http://www.cnngo.com/mumbai/play/anand-patwardhan-258893 Interview: Firebrand filmmaker Anand Patwardhan CNNGO Website]
* [http://www.patwardhan.com/interviews/Indian%20Express%2007.htm A voice above the din, Indian Express]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110725183833/http://www.cndpindia.org/e107_plugins/pdf/pdf.php?plugin%3Acontent.31 Firebrand filmmaker Anand Patwardhan - Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace Website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110725183833/http://www.cndpindia.org/e107_plugins/pdf/pdf.php?plugin%3Acontent.31 Firebrand filmmaker Anand Patwardhan - Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace Website]
* [http://www.patwardhan.com/interviews/indymedia.htm It Doesn't Have To Be High Art For It To Be Useful - Indymedia]
* [http://www.patwardhan.com/interviews/pix0297.htm Interview with Anand Patwardhan]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121107205402/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2004/05/16/stories/2004051600410500.htm Filmmaker as activist - The Hindu]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121107205402/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2004/05/16/stories/2004051600410500.htm Filmmaker as activist - The Hindu]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090430141705/http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2001/112201/film5.html Battling the bomb - Montreal Mirror]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090430141705/http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2001/112201/film5.html Battling the bomb - Montreal Mirror]
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===Writings===
===Writings===
* [http://www.countercurrents.org/patwardhan120108.htm Monkey Business: Cross Currents Website]
* [http://www.countercurrents.org/patwardhan120108.htm Monkey Business: Cross Currents Website]
* [http://www.patwardhan.com/writings/gandhi%20film%20as%20theology.htm Gandhi: Film as Theology - Reprinted from Economic and Political Weekly Vol.XVIII (1983)]
* [http://www.patwardhan.com/Terror%20Aftermath.html Terror: The Aftermath]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070812022422/http://publications.aidindia.org/content/view/528/56/ The Good Doctor of Chhattisgarh - Association for India's Development Website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070812022422/http://publications.aidindia.org/content/view/528/56/ The Good Doctor of Chhattisgarh - Association for India's Development Website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110119024033/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=20040227002709400.htm&date=fl2104%2F&prd=fline& Films for freedom]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110119024033/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=20040227002709400.htm&date=fl2104%2F&prd=fline& Films for freedom]
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* [http://indiatogether.org/peace/opinions/censorpeace.htm Censoring peace amid nuclear 'deterrence' - Tehelka]
* [http://indiatogether.org/peace/opinions/censorpeace.htm Censoring peace amid nuclear 'deterrence' - Tehelka]
* [https://archive.today/20120912213520/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main13.asp?filename=In070205Short_is.asp Short is Sweet - Tehelka]
* [https://archive.today/20120912213520/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main13.asp?filename=In070205Short_is.asp Short is Sweet - Tehelka]
* [http://www.patwardhan.com/reviews/wp_timeout.htm On War and Peace - Time Out, Mumbai]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090215040823/http://www.hinduonnet.com/folio/fo0104/01040320.htm Netting the conscience - The Hindu]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090215040823/http://www.hinduonnet.com/folio/fo0104/01040320.htm Netting the conscience - The Hindu]
* [https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B00EFDB103BF935A15755C0A9659C8B63&pagewanted=print Weapons of Mass Pride: India's Nuclear Embrace, New York Times]
* [https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B00EFDB103BF935A15755C0A9659C8B63&pagewanted=print Weapons of Mass Pride: India's Nuclear Embrace, New York Times]

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Anand Patwardhan
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Anand Patwardhan
Born (1950-02-18) 18 February 1950 (age 75)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Alma materUniversity of Mumbai, Brandeis University, McGill University
OccupationFilmmaker
Known forDocumentary filmmaking

Anand Patwardhan (born 18 February 1950) is an Indian documentary filmmaker known for his socio-political, human rights-oriented films. Some of his films explore the rise of religious fundamentalism, sectarianism and casteism in India, while others investigate nuclear nationalism and unsustainable development.[1][2][3][4] Notable films include Bombay: Our City (Hamara Shahar) (1985), In Memory of Friends (1990), In the Name of God (Ram ke Nam) (1992), Father, Son, and Holy War (1995), A Narmada Diary (1995), War and Peace (2002) and Jai Bhim Comrade (2011), which have won national and international awards.

Biography[edit]

Anand Patwardhan speaking in ViBGYOR Film Festival 2011

Patwardhan was born on 18 February 1950, in Mumbai, Maharashtra.[5] He completed a B.A. in English literature at Mumbai University in 1970, a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology at Brandeis University in 1972, and a Master of Arts in Communication Studies at McGill University in 1982.[4][6][7][8][9] He is a member of the Oscar Academy[10]

Films[edit]

Patwardhan during a screening of Ram ke Naam at Kollam

Virtually all of Patwardhan's documentary films have faced censorship from the Indian government, eventually being cleared after legal action. His film Bombay: Our City was shown on TV after a four-year court case,[11] while Father, Son, and Holy War (1995) was adjudged in 2004 as one of 50 most memorable international documentaries of all time by DOX, Europe's leading documentary film magazine. Father, Son, and Holy War was shown on India's National Network, Doordarshan, only in the year 2006, 11 years after its making, after a prolonged court battle which lasted ten years and ended with the nation's Supreme Court ordering the network to telecast the film without any cuts.[12]

The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), refused to certify his next film, War and Peace, released in 2002. The board demanded 21 cuts before it would be certified.[13] Patwardhan took the government to court, leading to the film being banned for over a year.[14] However, after a court battle, Patwardhan won the right to screen his film without a single cut.[15][16][17] As with his previous films, Patwardhan also successfully fought to force a reluctant national broadcaster, Doordarshan, to show this film on their national network. It was commercially released in multiplexes in 2005.[18]

His 2011 documentary, Jai Bhim Comrade, was based on a police firing incident against Dalits at Ramabai Colony in Mumbai in 1997. The film, which took 14 years to complete, is considered by many to be a watershed in Patwardhan's long career.[19] In 2013 the Sheffield International Film Festival honoured Patwardhan with an Inspiration Award.[20] In 2014 the Mumbai International Film Festival honoured him with the V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award.[21]

Upon being asked in a BFI interview to deliver a message for future documentary filmmakers, Patwardhan famously replied, "No message really. Do it only if it burns when you don't."[22]

Filmography[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Interview Tehelka 13 October 2007.
  2. ↑ 'Michael Moore' of India, screening and Interview University of California, Berkeley 13 October 2004.
  3. ↑ Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival Archived 26 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine American University School of Communication 16 June 2004.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Manas: Culture, Indian Cinema-Anand Patwardhan". ucla.edu.
  5. ↑ Interview with Indian director Anand Patwardhan Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, BFI, 5 May 2015.
  6. ↑ Films of Anand Patwardhan Archived 9 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Icarus Films, New York.
  7. ↑ About Anand Official website.
  8. ↑ Documentary Voices- Anand Patwardhan.
  9. ↑ "About Anand". patwardhan.com.
  10. ↑ "Academy invites record 774 new members; 39 percent female, 30 percent people color". Hollywood Reporter. 29 June 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  11. ↑ "Tehelka - The People's Paper". tehelka.com. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012.
  12. ↑ Article Title Father, Son and Holy War] The Frontline, The Hindu, September 2006.
  13. ↑ Filmmaker's Battle to Tell India's Story in India The New York Times 24 December 2002.
  14. ↑ Censorship and Litigation
  15. ↑ Alone against India's nuclear nationalism BBC News 12 August 2003.
  16. ↑ Director Interview BBC Four, 4 August 2003.
  17. ↑ Film Review BBC Four, 2002.
  18. ↑ War and Peace hits the box office for the first time in India Tehelka, 25 June 2005.
  19. ↑ "Dubai International Film Festival". Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
  20. ↑ "Sheffield Doc/Fest: Sheffield International Documentary Festival". 6 February 2015. Archived from the original on 6 February 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  21. ↑ "Anand wins Lifetime Achievement Award at the Mumbai International Film Festival, 2014 | Films of Anand Patwardhan". Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  22. ↑ Earth vision: interview with Anand Patwardhan BFI 5 May 2015.
  23. ↑ "Articles and Reviews". patwardhan.com.
  24. ↑ Films Index Official website.
  25. ↑ Awards imdb.com.
  26. ↑ Screening of screen Patwardhan's films at Stanford University Rediff.com, October 2001
  27. ↑ "FRIF". Archived from the original on 13 May 2008. Retrieved 14 June 2008.
  28. ↑ . 6 February 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070206200347/http://www.earth-vision.jp/top-e.htm. Archived from the original on 6 February 2007. Retrieved 15 February 2020. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  29. ↑ 3rd KaraFilm Festival Archived 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine Karachi International Film Festival, website.
  30. ↑ 51st National Film Awards - 2004 Archived 1 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Official listings Directorate of Film Festivals Official website.
  31. ↑ Kumar, Sunalini (21 March 2012). "Jai Bhim, Comrade Patwardhan « Kafila". kafila.org. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012.
  32. ↑ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Inheriting-injustice-A-chilling-film-on-Indias-Dalits/articleshow/11459368.cms
  33. ↑ Ram Bahadur Trophy for Best Film, Festival of South-Asian Documentaries, 2011, Film South Asia, retrieved 1 January 2014
  34. ↑ Golden Firebird Award, Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2012, IMDb, retrieved 1 January 2014
  35. ↑ "59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced" (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  36. ↑ Palmarès / Award-winning films 2012, Jean Rouch Film International Film Festival, 19 November 2012, retrieved 1 January 2014
  37. ↑ "Films of Anand Patwardhan". Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  38. ↑ Damon Wise, "IDFA Awards 2018: The Jury Sees 'Reason'", Variety, 21 November 2018.
  39. ↑ "17th Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles Winners Announced | LATF USA". latfusa.com. Retrieved 2 June 2019.

External links[edit]

Websites on Anand Patwardhan's work[edit]

Interviews[edit]

Writings[edit]

Reviews[edit]

Video clips[edit]

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