Rohan Sabharwal
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| Rohan Sabharwal | |
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| Born | Rohan Singh Ajay Sabharwal October 10, 1979 Bombay, Maharashtra, India |
| Occupation | film director, producer, screenwriter |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Website | |
| rohansabharwal.com | |
Rohan Sabharwal (born Rohan Singh Ajay Sabharwal on 10 October 1979) is an Indian filmmaker.
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[edit] Family life and education
Sabharwal was born in the city of Mumbai. He is the elder of two sons born to a Punjabi father and a Catholic mother of mixed Goan-Portuguese and Anglo-Irish descent. He finished his schooling at the Lawrence School, Lovedale in 1996. He is a graduate of the London Film School, London, UK under the guidance of Oscar-nominated Mike Leigh O.B.E.
He is the great grandson and grandson of freedom fighters Laxmi Devi Sharma and Som Kumari Sabharwal and great grandson of Sardar Bahadur Ram Singh Sabharwal, Secretary Military Finance in the British Indian Government. His paternal uncles Vineet Kumar and Sudhir Kumar are both former hockey Olympians.
His mother, Carmen Sabharwal, is a designer in Mumbai.
[edit] Film career
After graduating from film school in 2006, the same year that he edited the award winning commercial 'Sarah and Wendy' which won the Kodak Student Commercial Award in the UK, he left London to pursue a career in film and television in India. Here he shot his 16-minute graduation film Shunyata, which premiered at the ICA cinema in London and generated mixed reviews, though most were favorable. He has been criticized for his views on censorship, especially that in Shunyata, his showing of an amputated leg was unnecessary and served as an attempt to disturb the audience rather than illustrate the film's point. He denies this and says the shot was not in bad taste and was absolutely necessary to illustrate the horrors of unnecessary communal disharmony. He has also refuted claims that the film is anti-Hindu.
He became widely recognized as a filmmaker after the Celebrate Bandra Committee picked his 25-minute short Romson and Juliana to show at their biennial festival Celebrate Bandra in 2007.
His most recent film is the first episode of a television documentary series called India Rediscovered, inspired by Jawaharlal Nehru's book The Discovery of India. The series proposes to cover places of historic importance in India that have been ignored by text books.
[edit] Future projects
Sabharwal has begun working on his comedy feature, There Are No Americans in Taxis, that tells four stories that happen on a day when all cellular networks in Mumbai fail and a whole city is rendered helpless. He is also in the process of producing a feature documentary on the Jewish community in India.
[edit] Filmography
| Director/Producer | ||
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| Year | Film | Other notes |
| 2010 | There are no Americans in Taxis | Currently in Pre Production |
| 2009 | Sons of the Soil | Post Production, A feature documentary that talks about Farmers' suicides in India |
| 2009 | Fearless | Post Production, A political documentary Featuring Mallika Sarabhai |
| 2009 | Happy Birthday Loki | Distributed by Journeyman Pictures |
| 2009 | An Epilogue To A Friendship | Starring Indian radio personality Tarana Kapoor |
| 2008 | India Rediscovered | TV pilot, Screened at the "Cannes Film Festival", 2009 |
| 2007 | Romson and Juliana | Premiered at the Celebrate Bandra festival, 2007 |
| 2006 | Shunyata | US Premiere: Regency Fairfax Cinema, Hollywood UK Premiere: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London |
| 2005 | This Man's Journey | Produced by the London Film School, Nominated at the British Film Festival, LA in the Category of Best UK Short. |
| Writer | ||
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| Year | Film | Other notes |
| 2009 | The Lost Bloodline And Other Related Stories | Feature film, Currently in Pre Production, Quarter Finalist for the Golden Brad Awards |
| Editor | ||
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| Year | Film | Other notes |
| 2009 | The Pact | Starring British actor JC Mac |
| 2006 | Sarah and Wendy | Won the Kodak Student Commercial Award, 2006 in Best Brief category. |
[edit] Social causes
Supporter and Member of Amnesty International
[edit] Sources
- http://freepdfhosting.com/1ac90cfaeb.pdf
- http://hitplay.in/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/x2.240175449.pdf
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3290534/
- http://www.celebratebandra.net/img/PressClips.doc
- http://documentaries.documentaryfilms.net/India-Rediscovered-2008.html
- http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/703/Shunyata
- http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1146/India-Rediscovered/Vm0xMFlWWXhTbkpQVm1SU1lrVndVbFpyVWtKUFVUMDkr
- http://ibnlive.in.com/news/celebrating-bandra-the-past-and-present/53608-19.html
- http://www.macsplace.de/forum1_5/index.php?topic=42.0
- http://www.cleanfunnyvideoclips.com/kodak-commercial-award-winner/BaNJLB5Hf_0/
- http://www.timeoutmumbai.net/client_coverstory/client_coverstory_details.asp?code=536
