Gul Bahar Singh
Born
Pakur, Jharkhand
NationalityIndian
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active1980–present

Gul Bahar Singh is a six time national award winning Indian film-maker. He received first national award in 1986 for his documentary film, Anukaran.[1][2][3][4][5]

Early life

Singh was born in Pakur, Jharkhand in a Sikh family and he is the youngest child of his parents. He studied in Pakur, Kolkata, and Faridabad, after completing his graduation Singh self-trained himself to become a filmmaker.

Career

Gul Bahar Singh with actor Amitabh Bachchan

He started his career in 1980 with his first documentary "Weeds" on street children, which received very good response. He received first national award in 1986 for his documentary film Anukaran,[6] a film on status of women in India. In 1991 he received national award for film Biotechnology; Some possibilities.

He made a long documentary for Doordarshan on life of noted Hindi writer Munshi Premchand starred Irrfan Khan as Premchand. In 1999 Hindi feature film Sundari produced by N.F.D.C. was screened in Calcutta film festivals and Participated in Vith, International film festivals in Sochi, Moscow and received Diploma for participation. He also won National award in 44th National Film Awards as best film on Family welfare for Bengali short film Bheet and won National award in 45th National Film Awards for Gotipua. The Goal feature Irfan Khan in main lead won Golden Lotus at 47th National Film Awards as best children film and received special Jury award at 11th, Cairo International Children's Film Festival held in Egypt, received special mention by the jury of International Federation of Film Societies in 2001 in Czech Republic. The film was also selected in India Panorama in 2001, and also participated in Golden Elephant Children's Film Festival in the same year. His feature film Dattak starring Rajit Kapoor and A. K. Hangal as main lead was the only Indian film which participated in the 5th Shanghai International Film Festival, China. In 2016, he made a feature-length biopic Ek Thi Rani Aisi Bhi starring Hema Malini and Vinod Khanna on the life of Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scendia of Gwalior.

Awards

Year Film Gener Award Source
1986 Anukaran Documentary 33rd National Film Awards [6][7]
1992 Biotechnology :Some possibility Documentary 38th National Film Awards
1997 Bheet Short Film National Award
1999 Gotipua Documentary 45th National Film Awards [8]
1999 Sundari Feature Film Certificate of Participation.
2000 The Goal Feature Film National & International award [1]
2003 Dhatri Panna Short Film 50th National Film Awards
2003 Abaidha Feature Film Best Actor (BFJA)
Certificate of Participations
Montreal film festival
2003 Dalma Wild Life Sanctuary Documentary Certificate of Participation (Vatavaran)

Filmography

Year Film Note
1980 Weeds Documentary
1982 The third hand Documentary
1986 Anukaran Documentary
1988 Ujjala Telefilm
1991 Biotechnology :Some possibility Documentary
1993 Bayen Telefilm
1994 Sawa ser Gehoon Telefilm
1995 Sikhs & Five takhts Serial
1996 Melody Man Documentary
1996 Premchand Serial
1996 Jyon Mehndi ko Rang Serial
1996 Seemant Telefilm
1997 Bheet Bengali short film
1998 Bansuriwala Short film
1999 Gotipua Documentary
1999 Sundari Feature film
1999 The Goal Feature film
2001 Dattak Feature film
2002 Sixer Feature film
2002 Tandav Feature film
2003 Dhatripanna Short film
2003 Abaidha Bengali feature film
2004 Dalma wild Life Sanctuary Documentary
2004 Saranda Documentary
2004 Shravani Mela Documentary
2005 Do Behne Serial
2006 Jogajog Bengali Telefilm
2007 Nishi Kutumb Bengali serial
2008 Bhola Bhai Patel Documentary
2010 Shahmal jat Documentary
2013 Dalip Kaur Tiwana Documentary
2015 Sarbat da Bhala Documentary
2017 Ek Thi Rani Aisi Bhi Feature film

References

  1. 1 2 "Hema to play Rajmata Vijaya Raja Scindia". The Times of India. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  2. ↑ "Regal role". Thehindu.com. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Picking themes close to reality – Deccan Herald". M.deccanherald.com. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "Shefali to Paoli". Telegraphindia.com. Archived from the original on 16 November 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  5. ↑ "Kalanidhi – Cultural Archive — Film / Video Documentation by IGNCA". Ignca.nic.in. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  6. 1 2 "Cabaret queen!". Telegraphindia.com. Archived from the original on 21 July 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  7. ↑ "33rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Dff.nic.in. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  8. ↑ "45th National Film Awards" (PDF). Dff.nic.in. Retrieved 12 July 2017.

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