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Manjira Dutta
Manjira Dutta
Born in Kolkata, Manjira Datta was an award winning documentary filmmaker based in New Delhi. Tripti, as she was addressed by her family and friends, grew up in Kolkata as the daughter of a High Court Judge in the 60s. The fourth of the five siblings, she took to studying commerce and went on to study chartered accountancy in Scotland. Subsequently, she spent some seven-and-a-half years in the UK. The turning point in her career came when she was gifted a camera by her uncle in England. Soon, she was engrossed with images and took up admission at the Ealing Art College which had alumni ...
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Filmography
- Raaste Bandh Hain Subh - All Roads Closed (1985)
- The Sacrifice of Babulal Bhuyia (1988)
- Ringmasters (1990)
- The Double Headed Boy of Gurgaon (unfinished)
- Democracy in Crisis? (1991)
- Portraits of a Dream Show (1991)
- Seeds of Plenty
- Seeds of Sorrow (1992)
- Ek Aur Nagma (1993)
- Power of Partnership (1993)
- Relationship (1995)
- The Preferred Sex (1995)
- BKS Iyengar: Sculpting Humankind (1999)
- BKS Iyengar - Light of Iyengar Yoga (1999)
- BKS Iyengar - An Interview with Guruji (1999)
- Present Times (1999)
- Life of the Law (2004)
Awards
- At the 35th National Award, Raaste Bandh Hain Sub... (All Roads Are Closed) won the Best Anthropological/Ethnographic film for best of Indian cinema in 1987. The Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) was given to her for "dealing with an old issue such as caste-ism in a profound cinematic style, wherein the leitmotif it of the exploitation of man by man and its consequences for the present are never lost track of".
Research by: Geety Sahgal
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