Amshan Kumar
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| Born | Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu |
| Occupation(s) | Film director and Writer |
| Years active | 1995 – present |
Amshan Kumar is an Indian filmmaker and writer. He has won a National Film Award for his documentary film Yazhpanan Thedchanamoorthy - Music beyond boundaries in the year 2015.[1][2][3] This is a lone Tamil non-fiction film to win a National Award in the past 17 years prior to this award [4] He is also a writer on films, his book Cinema Rasanai on film appreciation is being used as a textbook in many universities.[5] His debut feature film Oruththi was selected for the 2003 International Film Festival of India and was screened in the Indian Panorama section.[6][7][8] His second feature film Manusangada was screened in the 39th Cairo International Film Festival and also in the 48th International Film Festival of India (2017) in the Indian Panorama section.[9][10] He lives in Chennai.
Career
[edit]Amshan Kumar has made more than twenty five documentaries including Badal Sircar`s Third Theatre, Modern Art in Tamil Nadu,[11] Mangrove Forests, Nobel Laureate C.V.Raman, U.Ve.Saminatha Iyer, Tamil Poet Subramania Bharati[12] and Manakkal S.Rangarajan. His first directorial feature film in Tamil Oruththi selected for was shown in Indian Panorama based on a short novel by the renowned writer Ki. Rajanarayanan . It won the best film awards from Government of Pondicherry and Tamil Association of New Jersey.[13] His documentary on the Tavil Maestro Yazhpanam Thedchanmoorthy won the national award for the best arts/ cultural film in 2015.[3] It is the first Tamil non-feature film to win a National Award in 17 years.[14]
His second feature film Manusangada was selected in the Indian Panorama section of International Film Festival of India , Goa and was the only Tamil film to be selected that year.[15] The film had its world priemere in Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival[16] and its International Premiere at the Cairo International Film Festival.[17][18]
Filmography
[edit]- Oruththi (2003)
- Manusangada (2017)
References
[edit]- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Documentary maker from Chennai bags national award". Times of India. 30 March 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ^ a b "Thavil Doyen's Lost Beats Come Alive". 2 April 2016.
- ^ Menon, Vishal (3 April 2016). "Thavil recitals from across the Palk Strait". The Hindu.
- ^ "AMSHAN KUMAR - Public Service Broadcasting Trust".[permanent dead link]
- ^ "IFFI". Archived from the original on 1 June 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- ^ "International Film Festival of India-2003".
- ^ "About 'Oruthi'". The Hindu. 30 July 2003.[dead link]
- ^ "IFFI Goa 2017: Tamil film 'Manusangada' to be screened in Indian Panorama of international film festival in Goa | Chennai News - Times of India". The Times of India. 10 November 2017.
- ^ "Manusangada screened at IFFI". The Hindu. 27 November 2017.
- ^ "Evolution of modern art". The Hindu. 7 May 2010.
- ^ "A maker of truthful cinema". The Hindu. 11 November 2001.[dead link]
- ^ GERALD, OLYMPIA SHILPA (3 March 2011). "Charmed by celluloid". The Hindu.
- ^ menon, vishal (3 April 2016). "The thavil that united Tamils". The Hindu.
- ^ "Manusangada screened at IFFI". The Hindu. Goa, India. 27 November 2017.
- ^ "Mumbai Academy of Moving Image - ProgrammeDetail Site". Mumbai Film Fest.
- ^ "மனுசங்கடா (Manusangada) is going to Egypt!". Tamil Information Centre. 11 November 2017.
- ^ "Cairo Film Festival: Tamil Film Manusangada Highlights a Grave Social Injustice - News18". News18. Cairo,Egypt. 29 November 2017.
External links
[edit]- Amshan Kumar at IMDb
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