Chandita Mukherjee
Chandita Mukherjee (1952-2023) was an Indian documentary film maker and activist. She was the recipient of two National Film Awards. She also directed the TV series Bharat Ki Chhap on the history of science and technology in India.
Early life and education
Chandita Mukherjee was born in 1952. She studied Sociology at Miranda House, University of Delhi. After graduation, she enrolled for a film direction course at Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).I. She was among the first women graduates of FTII's direction course. She braved family opposition and worked her way through the course, supporting herself by doing a number of odd jobs.[1]
Career
After graduating from FTII in 1975, she started her career making TV programmes for children with the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE), . Right from the outset, Mukherjee worked on science and technology in India. When the SITE project ended in 1976, she moved to Bombay (now Mumbai), where she would live and work for the rest of her life.
In 1985, she set up Comet Media Foundation, a non-profit organisation that situates itself at the juncture of science, technology and society.
During the mid-1980s, Mukherjee was engaged in an ambitious project - the making of Bharat Ki Chhap, a TV series on the history of science and technology in India. She and her team travelled extensively across the country for the shooting of the series. The series was aired on Doordarshan in 1987.
In 1991, her film Totanama won the National Film Award for the best short fiction film. In 1994 she received a second National Award for Another Way of Learning.
References
- ^ "WCC pays tributes to documentary filmmaker Chandita Mukherjee". The Times of India. 19 April 2023. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
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