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{{short description|Indian film director}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Anand Patwardhan
| native_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1950|02|18}}
| birth_place = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]
| occupation = Filmmaker
| caption = Anand Patwardhan
| image = AnandPatwardhan.JPG
| imagesize = 160px
| known_for = Documentary filmmaking
| alma_mater = [[University of Mumbai]], [[Brandeis University]], [[McGill University]]
}}
'''Anand Patwardhan''' (born 18 February 1950) is an Indian documentary filmmaker known for his socio-political, human rights-oriented films. Some of his films explore the rise of religious fundamentalism, sectarianism and casteism in India, while others investigate nuclear nationalism and unsustainable development.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120913050702/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main34.asp?filename=Ws1361007All_the.asp Interview] [[Tehelka]] 13 October 2007.</ref><ref>[http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/10/13_patwardhan.shtml '[[Michael Moore]]' of India, screening and Interview] [[University of California, Berkeley]] 13 October 2004.</ref><ref>[http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/artists/the_messengers_of_bad_news/ Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726181714/http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/artists/the_messengers_of_bad_news/ |date=26 July 2008 }} [[American University School of Communication]] 16 June 2004.</ref><ref name="ucla.edu">{{cite web|url=http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Culture/Cinema/AnandP.html|title=Manas: Culture, Indian Cinema-Anand Patwardhan|work=ucla.edu}}</ref> Notable films include ''Bombay: Our City'' (''Hamara Shahar'') (1985), ''In Memory of Friends'' (1990), ''[[Ram ke Naam|In the Name of God]]'' (''Ram ke Nam'') (1992), ''[[Father, Son, and Holy War]]'' (1995), ''A Narmada Diary'' (1995), ''[[War and Peace (2002 film)|War and Peace]]'' (2002) and ''[[Jai Bhim Comrade]]'' (2011), which have won national and international awards.

==Biography==
[[File:Anand Patwardhan.jpg|thumb|Anand Patwardhan speaking in [[ViBGYOR Film Festival]] 2011]]
Patwardhan was born on 18 February 1950, in [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]].<ref>[http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9ee5fbd3 Interview with Indian director Anand Patwardhan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924193321/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9ee5fbd3 |date=24 September 2015 }}, [[British Film Institute|BFI]], 5 May 2015.</ref> He completed a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in English literature at [[University of Mumbai|Mumbai University]] in 1970, a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology at [[Brandeis University]] in 1972, and a Master of Arts in Communication Studies at [[McGill University]] in 1982.<ref name="ucla.edu"/><ref>[http://www.frif.com/subjects/patw.html Films of Anand Patwardhan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509093244/http://www.frif.com/subjects/patw.html |date=9 May 2008 }} Icarus Films, New York.</ref><ref>[http://www.patwardhan.com/about/index.htm About Anand] Official website.</ref><ref>[http://ektaonline.org/events/patwardhan/PFA/index.htm Documentary Voices- Anand Patwardhan].</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.patwardhan.com/about/index.htm|title=About Anand|work=patwardhan.com}}</ref> He is a member of the [[Academy Award|Oscar]] Academy<ref>{{cite web | title =Academy invites record 774 new members; 39 percent female, 30 percent people color |publisher=Hollywood Reporter| url = http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/academy-invites-record-774-new-members-39-percent-female-30-percent-people-color-1017318 |date=29 June 2017|access-date = 29 June 2017}}</ref>

==Films==
[[File:AnandPatwardhan at Kollam.jpeg|thumb|300px|Patwardhan during a screening of [[Ram ke Naam]] at Kollam]]
Virtually all of Patwardhan's documentary films have faced censorship from the Indian government, eventually being cleared after legal action. His film ''[[Bombay: Our City]]'' was shown on TV after a four-year court case,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main13.asp?filename=In070205Short_is.asp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912213520/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main13.asp?filename=In070205Short_is.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 September 2012 |title=Tehelka - The People's Paper |work=tehelka.com }}</ref> while ''[[Father, Son, and Holy War]]'' (1995) was adjudged in 2004 as one of 50 most memorable international documentaries of all time by DOX, Europe's leading documentary film magazine. Father, Son, and Holy War was shown on India's National Network, [[Doordarshan]], only in the year 2006, 11 years after its making, after a prolonged court battle which lasted ten years and ended with the nation's Supreme Court ordering the network to telecast the film without any cuts.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090218223241/http://hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2318/stories/20060922003609900.htm Article Title] Father, Son and Holy War] [[Frontline (magazine)|The Frontline]], [[The Hindu]], September 2006.</ref>

The [[Central Board of Film Certification]] (CBFC), refused to certify his next film, ''[[War and Peace (2002 film)|War and Peace]]'', released in 2002. The board demanded 21 cuts before it would be certified.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04E4D6143CF937A15751C1A9649C8B63 Filmmaker's Battle to Tell India's Story in India] [[The New York Times]] 24 December 2002.</ref> Patwardhan took the government to court, leading to the film being banned for over a year.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.patwardhan.com/Censorship/Index_Censorship.htm |title=Censorship and Litigation}}</ref> However, after a court battle, Patwardhan won the right to screen his film without a single cut.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3142039.stm Alone against India's nuclear nationalism] [[BBC News (TV channel)|BBC News]] 12 August 2003.</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/anand-patwardhan.shtml Director Interview] [[BBC Four]], 4 August 2003.</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/war-and-peace.shtml Film Review] [[BBC Four]], 2002.</ref> As with his previous films, Patwardhan also successfully fought to force a reluctant national broadcaster, [[Doordarshan]], to show this film on their national network. It was commercially released in multiplexes in 2005.<ref name=tehel>[https://archive.today/20120912213520/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main13.asp?filename=In070205Short_is.asp War and Peace hits the box office for the first time in India] [[Tehelka]], 25 June 2005.</ref>

His 2011 documentary, [[Jai Bhim Comrade]], was based on a police firing [[1997 Ramabai Ambedkar Incident|incident against Dalits at Ramabai Colony in Mumbai in 1997]]. The film, which took 14 years to complete, is considered by many to be a watershed in Patwardhan's long career.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dubaifilmfest.com/index.php/en/movie_details/jai-bhim-comrade/15445/2011|title=Dubai International Film Festival|access-date=28 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323021722/http://www.dubaifilmfest.com/index.php/en/movie_details/jai-bhim-comrade/15445/2011|archive-date=23 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2013 the Sheffield International Film Festival honoured Patwardhan with an Inspiration Award.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sheffield Doc/Fest: Sheffield International Documentary Festival |url=https://www.sheffdocfest.com/articles/97-sheffield-docfest-inspiration-award-winners |access-date=14 January 2020 |date=6 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206081320/https://www.sheffdocfest.com/articles/97-sheffield-docfest-inspiration-award-winners |archive-date=6 February 2015 }}</ref> In 2014 the Mumbai International Film Festival honoured him with the V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anand wins Lifetime Achievement Award at the Mumbai International Film Festival, 2014 {{!}} Films of Anand Patwardhan |url=http://patwardhan.com/?page_id=1294 |access-date=14 January 2020}}</ref>

Upon being asked in a BFI interview to deliver a message for future documentary filmmakers, Patwardhan famously replied, ''"No message really. Do it only if it burns when you don't."''<ref>[http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/bfi-news/earth-vision-interview-anand-patwardhan Earth vision: interview with Anand Patwardhan] [[British Film Institute|BFI]] 5 May 2015. </ref>

== Filmography==
* 1971: "Waves of Revolution" (''Kraanti Ki Tarangein''): This film was on government repression in [[Bihar Movement]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.patwardhan.com/reviews/Waves_indiatoday.htm|title=Articles and Reviews|work=patwardhan.com}}</ref>
* 1978: "Prisoners of Conscience" (''Zameer ke Bandi''): a film on political prisoners in [[The Emergency (India)]]
** The Tyne Award, Tyneside Festival, UK, 1982.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120912054102/http://www.patwardhan.com/films/index.htm Films Index] Official website.</ref>
* 1981: "A Time to Rise" (''Uthan da Vela'')]: Concerns Indian immigrant farm workers' efforts to unionise in Canada.
** Grand Prize: Tyneside International Film Festival, UK in 1982
** Silver Dove: [[International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film|Leipzig International Film Festival]] in 1982.
* 1985: "Bombay: Our City" (''Hamara Shahar''): Everyday survival issues of slum dwellers in Bombay.
** [[National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film]] 1986
** Special Jury Award, Cinema du reel, France, 1986
** Filmfare Award for Best Documentary, 1986
* 1990: 'In Memory of Friends' (''Una Mitran Di Yaad Pyaari''): On rebuilding communal harmony in [[Punjab, India|Punjab]].
** [[National Film Award for Best Investigative Film]], 1990
** Silver Conch, [[Mumbai International Film Festival]] in 1990 Anand Patwardhan Films.
** Special Jury Award, [[International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg|Mannheim International Film festival]], 1990
* 1992: "In the Name of God" (''Ram ke Nam''): On the rise of Hindu Nationalism and the demolition of the [[Babri Mosque]].
** [[National Film Award for Best Investigative Film]], 1992
** Filmfare Award for Best Documentary 1996
** Best Documentary Film at [[Fribourg International Film Festival]],<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0666674/awards Awards] imdb.com.</ref> 1993
** Citizen's Prize, [[Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival]], 1993.
* 1993: ''We are not your Monkeys'': A Dalit critique of the epic [[Ramayana]] through a music video.
* 1995: ''[[Father, Son, and Holy War]]''
** [[National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues]] and [[National Film Award for Best Investigative Film]], 1996
** Toronto Film Festival, 1994<ref>[http://im.rediff.com/us/2001/oct/06us1.htm Screening of screen Patwardhan's films at Stanford University] Rediff.com, October 2001</ref>
** Special Jury Prize, Vancouver Film Festival, 1994<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.frif.com/cat97/f-j/father__.html|title=FRIF|access-date=14 June 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513090257/http://www.frif.com/cat97/f-j/father__.html|archive-date=13 May 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** Special Jury Award, [[Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival]], 1995
** Grand Prize, [[Jerusalem International Film Festival]], 1996.
** Audience Award, Sheffield International Film Festival, 2010
* 1996: ''A Narmada Diary'' : Introduces the [[Narmada Bachao Andolan]] of Gujarat.
** Grand Prize at the Earth Vision Film Festival in 1996.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.earth-vision.jp/top-e.htm|date=6 February 2007|access-date=15 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070206200347/http://www.earth-vision.jp/top-e.htm|archive-date=6 February 2007}}</ref>
** Filmfare Award for Best Documentary 1996.
* 1996: ''Occupation: Mill Worker'' : Chronicles the actions of mill workers who, after a four-year lock-out, forcibly occupied The New Great Eastern Mill in India.
* 1998: ''Fishing: In the Sea of Greed'': Response of fishing communities in India and Bangladesh, to industrial-scale fishing.
* 1998: ''Ribbons for Peace'': An anti-nuke music video.
* 2002: ''[[War and Peace (2002 film)|War and Peace]]''
** Grand Prize at the Earth Vision Film Festival in 2002
** Best Film at [[Mumbai International Film Festival]] in 2002
** FIPRESCI International Critics' Award at [[Sydney Film Festival]] in 2002
** Best Documentary in [[Karachi International Film Festival]] in 2003<ref>[http://www.karafilmfest.com/pastkaras_2003/pastkaras_2003_awardcitations.shtml 3rd KaraFilm Festival] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828141135/http://www.karafilmfest.com/pastkaras_2003/pastkaras_2003_awardcitations.shtml |date=28 August 2008 }} [[Karachi International Film Festival]], website.</ref>
** [[National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film]], India, 2004,<ref>[http://www.dff.nic.in/51nationalfilmawards.htm 51st National Film Awards - 2004] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501221848/http://www.dff.nic.in/51nationalfilmawards.htm |date=1 May 2008 }} Official listings [[Directorate of Film Festivals]] Official website.</ref> etc.
* 2006: ''Images You Didn't See'' : Music video that interprets images gleaned from the net-images that either never appear in the mainstream media, or images whose import are masked behind a velvet curtain of global infotainment.
* 2009: ''Children of Mandala'': A message from the economically displaced children of a slum colony in Mumbai.
* 2011: ''Jai Bhim Comrade'': a documentary film based on a real incident – the killing of 10 [[Dalit|Dalits]] by police in Mumbai, 1997.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kafila.org/2012/03/21/jai-bhim-comrade-patwardhan/|title=Jai Bhim, Comrade Patwardhan « Kafila|last=Kumar|first=Sunalini|date=21 March 2012|website=kafila.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324082339/https://kafila.org/2012/03/21/jai-bhim-comrade-patwardhan/|archive-date=24 March 2012}}</ref><ref>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Inheriting-injustice-A-chilling-film-on-Indias-Dalits/articleshow/11459368.cms</ref>
** Ram Bahadur Grand Prize, Film South Asia, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2011<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.filmsouthasia.org/film/jai-bhim-comrade/ |title=Ram Bahadur Trophy for Best Film, Festival of South-Asian Documentaries, 2011 |publisher= Film South Asia |access-date=1 January 2014}}</ref>
** Best Film/Video, Mumbai International Film Festival, India, 2012
** Firebird Award for Best documentary, Hong Kong Film Festival, 2012<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000331/2012 |title=Golden Firebird Award, Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2012 |publisher= IMDb |access-date=1 January 2014}}</ref>
** [[National Film Award – Special Jury Award (Non-Feature Film)|Special Jury Prize]], [[National Film Awards]], India, 2012<ref name="59thaward">{{cite press release|url=http://pib.nic.in/release/rel_print_page.asp?relid=80734|title=59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced|publisher=Press Information Bureau (PIB), India|access-date= 1 January 2014}}</ref>
** Bartok Prize, Jean Rouch Film International Film Festival, 2012<ref>{{citation|url=http://comitedufilmethnographique.com/palmares-award-winning-films/ |title=Palmarès / Award-winning films 2012 |date=19 November 2012 |publisher= Jean Rouch Film International Film Festival |access-date=1 January 2014}}</ref>
* 2018: ''Reason'' / ''Vivek'': the war between faith and rationality.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://patwardhan.com/|title=Films of Anand Patwardhan|language=en-US|access-date=2 June 2019}}</ref> An eight-part documentary.
** IDFA Award for best feature-length documentary, 2018<ref>Damon Wise, [https://variety.com/2018/film/festivals/idfa-awards-2018-the-jury-sees-reason-1203034904/ "IDFA Awards 2018: The Jury Sees 'Reason'"], ''Variety'', 21 November 2018.</ref>
**Audience Award at the [[Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles]], 2019<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://latfusa.com/article/2019/4/17th-indian-film-festival-of-los-angeles-winners/|title=17th Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles Winners Announced {{!}} LATF USA|website=latfusa.com|access-date=2 June 2019}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
{{Wikiquote|Anand Patwardhan}}
{{Commons category|Anand Patwardhan}}

===Websites on Anand Patwardhan's work===
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100101151623/http://dearcinema.com/shoppe/dvd/war-and-peace-jung-aur-aman Opinion: Anand Patwardhan – Nation's Conscience-Keeper]
* [http://www.patwardhan.com/ Anand Patwardhan Website]
* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0666674/ Anand Patwardhan] at the [[Internet Movie Database]]
* [http://theseventhart.info/2010/10/09/the-films-of-anand-patwardhan/ The Films of Anand Patwardhan]
* [http://www.saadigitalarchive.org/search/Anand%20Patwardhan Anand Patwardhan materials in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)]

===Interviews===
* [http://www.saadigitalarchive.org/item/20130117-1226 Anand Patwardhan interviewed by Chandana Mathur for SAMAR Magazine, Winter 1992]
* [http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/10/13_patwardhan.shtml Anand Patwardhan, the 'Michael Moore of India,' brings his hard-hitting documentary films to campus - UB Berkeley News]
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/anand-patwardhan.shtml Director's Interview- BBC interview]
* [https://archive.today/20120913050702/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main34.asp?filename=Ws1361007All_the.asp All the dire predictions of communal carnage made in my film came true]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100208230215/http://www.cnngo.com/mumbai/play/anand-patwardhan-258893 Interview: Firebrand filmmaker Anand Patwardhan CNNGO Website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110725183833/http://www.cndpindia.org/e107_plugins/pdf/pdf.php?plugin%3Acontent.31 Firebrand filmmaker Anand Patwardhan - Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace Website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121107205402/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2004/05/16/stories/2004051600410500.htm Filmmaker as activist - The Hindu]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090430141705/http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2001/112201/film5.html Battling the bomb - Montreal Mirror]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090104093530/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Ne131208ap_terror.asp Of The 200 Killed In Mumbai, A High Number Were Muslims - Tehelka Interview, 2008]

===Writings===
* [http://www.countercurrents.org/patwardhan120108.htm Monkey Business: Cross Currents Website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070812022422/http://publications.aidindia.org/content/view/528/56/ The Good Doctor of Chhattisgarh - Association for India's Development Website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110119024033/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=20040227002709400.htm&date=fl2104%2F&prd=fline& Films for freedom]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100616081819/http://pucl.org/reports/National/2001/buddhist.htm Destruction of Buddhist monuments in Afghanistan and the Babri Masjid]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20210314174154/http://www.hinduonnet.com/mag/2004/01/18/stories/2004011800120500.htm Festivals in contrast - The Hindu]

===Reviews===
* [http://indiatogether.org/peace/opinions/censorpeace.htm Censoring peace amid nuclear 'deterrence' - Tehelka]
* [https://archive.today/20120912213520/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main13.asp?filename=In070205Short_is.asp Short is Sweet - Tehelka]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090215040823/http://www.hinduonnet.com/folio/fo0104/01040320.htm Netting the conscience - The Hindu]
* [https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B00EFDB103BF935A15755C0A9659C8B63&pagewanted=print Weapons of Mass Pride: India's Nuclear Embrace, New York Times]

===Video clips===
* [http://ektaonline.org/events/patwardhan/PFA/warpeaceclip.htm War and Peace Video Clip - Ekta Online]
*[[War and Peace (2002 film)|War and Peace]] on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSieC-Qbeb8 YouTube]
* {{YouTube|crnNRguZKXE|Bombay: Our City, 1985}}
* {{YouTube|rbnxyNHp-6c|Ribbon for Peace}}
* {{YouTube|Y4jE5KA91a4|Patwardhan on how he avoided arrest during emergency}}
* {{YouTube|OO-VaJBHiik|Ram Ke Naam (In the Name of God), 1991, 75 minutes, complete Hindi version on director's channel)}}
*Vivek-Reason on [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiQKtIOcha69CDZucPo8oYw/playlists YouTube]

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