Rajan Khosa
Rajan Khosa is an Indian writer-director-producer who has worked between the UK, Europe and India for much of his career.
His most noteworthy film, Dance of the Wind (1997),[1] starring Kitu Gidwani in the lead role, won many national and International film awards, including Audience Award London Film Festival 1997, Public Prize & Best Actress Festival of 3 Continents 1997, Gold Plaque Chicago Festival 1998, Critics Week Venice Film Festival 1997, NETPAC Award Rotterdam Film Festival 1998, and Best Director British Asian Film Festival 1998.[2][3] The film was theatrically released in twenty five countries in 1998-2001 [4][5] However, it was commercially released in India, only in February 2008.[6]
His latest film Gattu, won praise and special mention from the children's jury at the 2012 Berlinale[7] and was named Best film at New York Indian Film Festival 2012 [8]
Biography
Rajan Khosa started his professional education at Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, and Royal College of Art (RCA) London and also spend a few years at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad[9][10]
Awards
- 1985: National Film Award for Best Short Fiction Film: Wisdom Tree[11]
- 1997: London Film Festival: Audience Award: Dance of the Wind.
- 1997: Festival of Three Continents: Audience Award: Dance of the Wind.
- 1998: Chicago International Film Festival: Gold Plaque, Best Music: Dance of the Wind (1997)
- 1998: International Film Festival Rotterdam: Netpac Award: Dance of the Wind (1997)[12]
- 2012: 62nd Berlin International Film Festival- Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk - Special Mention: Gattu [13]
References
- ↑ Filmography Rajan Khosa at nytimes.com.
- ↑ Dance of the wind Awards at IMDB
- ↑ Dance of the Wind at NFDC
- ↑ Dance with the Wind Preview radiosargam.com.
- ↑ Release info imdb.com.
- ↑ award-winning movie hits Indian screens Boolywood News, bollywoodworld.ca, 1 February 2008.
- ↑ Rajan Khosa’s Gattu Awarded at Berlin DearCinema, DearCinema.com, 18 February 2012.
- ↑ DearCinema.com 28 May 2012.
- ↑ Profile rajankhosa.com, Official website.
- ↑ "Gattu". Children's Film Society, India CFSI. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
- ↑ Awards Wisdom Tree at imdb.com.
- ↑ Rajan Khosa Awards imbd.com.
- ↑ IANS. "Indian film Gattu wins special mention at 62nd Berlinale". India Today. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
External links
Further reading
KOCIEJOWSKI, Marius. God's Zoo: Artists, Exiles, Londoners (Carcanet, 2014) contains a biographical chapter "The Burning of a Thread - Rajan Khosa, Film Director".