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{{Short description|Indian film director}}
{{EngvarB|date=September 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Madhur Bhandarkar
| image = FILM DIRECTOR MADHUR BHANDARKAR.JPG
| caption = Madhur Bhandarkar on the Sets of ''[[Heroine (2012 film)|Heroine]]''
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1968|08|26}}
| birth_place = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]
| occupation = Film critic, Film director
| yearsactive = 1995-present
| spouse = {{marriage| Renu Namboodiri | 2003}}
| children = 1
| honours = [[Padma Shri]] (2016)
| homepage = {{URL|www.madhurbhandarkar.in}}
}}

'''Madhur Bhandarkar''' (born 26 August 1968) is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer. He made his directorial debut with [[Trishakti]] and went on to direct several critically and commercially successful films.

The drama film ''[[Chandni Bar]]'' (2001), won him the [[National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues|National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues]]. Bhandarkar received the [[National Film Awards]] for the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|Best Feature Film]] and [[National Film Award for Best Director|Best Director]] for ''[[Page 3 (film)|Page 3]]'' (2005) and ''[[Traffic Signal (film)|Traffic Signal]]'' (2007) respectively. The drama film ''[[Fashion (2008 film)|Fashion]]'' (2008) garnered him several accolades including [[National Film Award]], [[Filmfare Awards]] nominations for [[Filmfare Award for Best Director|Best Director]] and [[Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]].

Madhur was recently invited as the special Guest of Honour for the First International Yoga Day celebrations at the [[United Nations]] in New York on 21 June.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Madhur-Bhandarkar-to-attend-Yoga-Day-at-UN/articleshow/47734094.cms|title=Madhur Bhandarkar to attend Yoga Day at UN - Times of India}}</ref> In 2016, Bhandarkar was honoured with the [[Padma Shri]], the [[Indian honours system|fourth highest civilian]] honour, by the [[Government of India]].<ref name="civilian">{{cite web|title=Rajinikanth gets Padma Vibhushan; Padma Shri for Priyanka Chopra, Ajay Devgn |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/rajinikanth-awarded-padma-vibhushan-padma-shri-for-priyanka-chopra-ajay-devgn/|work=The Indian Express|date=25 January 2016|access-date=25 January 2016}}</ref>

Madhur Bhandarkar has been nominated as society member of the [[Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute]] by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry.<ref>http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/madhur-bhandarkar-to-join-society-of-satyajit-ray-institute-4466663/</ref>
He also received the Bharat Gaurav award at the UN hall in New York.<ref>http://www.deccanchronicle.com/entertainment/bollywood/110617/madhur-bhandarkar-receives-bharat-gaurav-award-dedicates-it-to-indian-armed-forces.html</ref>

In April 2017, Madhur Bhandarkar was invited to represent India at [[BRICS]] Film Festival.<ref>http://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/madhur-bhandarkar-s-short-film-mumbai-mist-gets-standing-ovation-at-brics-film-fest-in-china/story-p758vfqn9tlSMegf7VsthN.html</ref>

Recently, in 2019, Madhur received an award from Filmfare Middle East, [[Muscat]], for his path breaking direction in Indian cinema.<ref>https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/bollywood/bollywood-stars-land-in-oman-for-filmfare-event-1.63012527</ref>

== Biography ==

=== Career ===
Madhur Bhandarkar worked in a video cassette library in [[Khar, Mumbai|Khar]], a suburb of [[Mumbai]]. This gave him access to a large collection of movies and he studied film-making through it.

After trying his skills with small-time filmmakers as an assistant, Bhandarkar landed up as an assistant to [[Ram Gopal Varma]]. He even played his first cameo in his 1995 film ''[[Rangeela (1995 film)|Rangeela]]'' where he was the associate director to Ram Gopal Varma. A couple of years later he made his directorial debut with ''Trishakti'' which took more than three years to make and released in 1999. The film had a relatively low key cast and was largely ignored at the box office. After two years he directed ''[[Chandni Bar]]'' (2001) starring [[Tabu (actress)|Tabu]] and [[Atul Kulkarni (actor born 1965)|Atul Kulkarni]] with a budget of Rs 15 million. The film was critically acclaimed and a box office success, which took Bhandarkar into the top league of filmmakers in Bollywood. He received his first [[National Film Award (India)|National Award]] for this film and thereon won National awards for his films ''Page-3'' and ''Traffic Signal''. His movie ''Fashion'' (2008) also won National Awards for Best Actress ([[Priyanka Chopra]]) and for Best Supporting Actress ([[Kangana Ranaut]]).

Madhur was conferred PL Deshpande Award a.k.a. Zenith Asia Award for significantly shaping the film making culture in his unique works and he has been described as 'the Film Maker of the First Decade of the 21st Century'. On the Silver Jubilee Year of Aashay Film Club, award ceremony took place on 16 Nov at National Film Archive Theatre during the eighth Pulotsav – An Art Festival in Pune. PL Deshpande was a renowned writer, stage and film actor and his literary works are still revered in Maharashtra and others parts of the world. In his honour, Zenith Asia Award was given to Madhur Bhandarkar and his film [[Chandni Bar]] was also screened during the fest amongst landmark 25 films from world cinema.

In Nov, 2010 National Film Archive of India (NFAI) announced to preserve all the films of Madhur Bhandarkar. Chandni Bar, Page-3, Corporate, Traffic Signal, Fashion and Jail found space in Government's Archival data for Indian films.

===Personal life===
Bhandarkar hails from a Konkani speaking [[Gaud Saraswat Brahmin]] family. He is a school drop-out. He came from a middle-class family. As a result, Madhur had to take up various jobs. He worked at a video store as an errand boy and dropped off cassettes to people from many walks of life including dance bar girls and film stars. He also sold chewing gum at traffic signals and worked as an assistant to small-time directors for a salary of {{INR}} 1000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-09-27/news-interviews/28112113_1_local-train-dance-bar-girls-movies |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103125540/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-09-27/news-interviews/28112113_1_local-train-dance-bar-girls-movies |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 January 2013 |title=I've no friends in Bollywood: Madhur |date=27 September 2009 |work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=5 November 2012}}</ref>

He is a great devotee of the Hindu God [[Siddhivinayak Temple, Mumbai|Siddhivinayak]] and has been walking from his house in Khar, Mumbai to the temple for the past 18 years on every Tuesday. Madhur also regularly visits Vaishno Devi temple in Jammu & Kashmir and the Golden Temple in Amritsar. According to him, the film ''[[Corporate (2006 film)|Corporate]]'' was his most difficult film as people in corporate world would shun him after he bared [[Page 3 culture]] in his earlier film. He took inspiration for ''Corporate'' from the Coke – Pepsi controversy. He has been invited to deliver lectures on corporate issues to management students after the release of ''Corporate''. (Interview to TV channel IBN Lokmat on 26 November 2008) Bhandarkar married his girlfriend Renu Namboodiri on 15 December 2003 in [[Mumbai]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/madhur-bhandarkar-wife-renu-namboodiri-hates-dark-films/1/204768.html |title=Madhur Bhandarkar's wife Renu Namboodiri hates dark films : EYECATCHERS|work=India Today |date=29 December 2003 |access-date=5 November 2012}}</ref> They have a daughter named Siddhi.

===Controversy===
<ref>http://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/bollywood/preeti-jain-madhur-bhandarkar-rape-charges-to-conspiracy-to-kill-how-the-case-unfolded-3413096.html</ref>
While in 2012, Supreme Court justices H L Dattu and C K Prasad passed an order quashing the ongoing criminal proceedings, noting that Preeti Jain did not want to pursue the case against Bhandarkar and that the Mumbai police had earlier called the claim false and thus given him a clean chit. Initially, in 2004, Preeti Jain, a model and actress, accused Madhur Bhandarkar of rape and lodged a complaint with the Versova Police where she alleged that the filmmaker had raped her 16 times between 1999 and 2004 with the promise of casting her in his films. She also alleged that he promised to marry her and produced SMS texts, where he had reportedly asked for sexual favours, as evidence.
Bhandarkar claimed that the complaint was cheating-related, not about rape. In 2011, a Mumbai court found substance in her complaint and asked Bhandarkar to face the trial. He challenged the lower court's order before the higher court, which too rejected his plea.
In 2011, the police filed a report where it stated that the claim against the filmmaker was 'maliciously false'. The court rejected this report and held there was prima facie a case against Bhandarkar.
The Bombay High Court confirmed the magisterial court's decision to continue with Bhandarkar's prosecution. In 2011, the Bombay high court asked the filmmaker to face the trial in the case. He challenged the court's order, which was later set aside by the Supreme Court.

However, prior to this, in 2005, in a bizarre turn of events, Preeti was arrested for hiring a contract killer to murder Bhandarkar. She was to pay Rs 75,000 to Naresh Pardeshi, the associate of infamous Mumbai don Arun Gawli to kill the filmmaker. Reports suggest that the model demanded her money back because the execution failed to take place. When Gawli was made aware of this, he instructed his lawyer to file a complaint against her at the Agripada police station. The rape case was cited as one of the reasons why she wanted the filmmaker dead. After a week long probe, the police arrested her while she was on her way to the Versova Police station.
The initial trial began at a fast-track court in Sewri, which shut down, and consequently, the case was transferred to the sessions court. She was awarded a three-year imprisonment and found guilty of conspiracy, aiding and abetting crime.

==Directorial style==
In most of his films, Bhandarkar's protagonist are females. ([[Tabu (actress)|Tabu]] in ''Chandni Bar'', [[Raveena Tandon]] in ''Satta'', [[Konkona Sen Sharma]] in ''Page 3'', [[Bipasha Basu]] in ''Corporate'', [[Neetu Chandra]] in ''Traffic Signal'', [[Priyanka Chopra]] in ''Fashion'' and [[Kareena Kapoor]] in ''Heroine''.) The exception here being [[Neil Nitin Mukesh]], who was cast as the protagonist in the movie Jail. He has also depicted gay characters in his movies like ''Page 3'',''Traffic Signal'' and ''Fashion''.

In an interview, he said: "My movies are not exposes, maybe they just hold up a mirror to society. My movies are not judgmental; I just show what happens in our society, sometimes there could be a solution and sometimes there may be none. Life goes on.".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://businessofcinema.com/bollywood-news/my-films-just-hold-up-a-mirror-to-society-madhur-bhandarkar/17030|title=My films just hold up a mirror to society' - Madhur Bhandarkar}}</ref> Madhur is known for his hard-hitting and realistic films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bollywood.com/celebrities/madhur-bhandarkar/news/madhur-hard-hitting-movie-again|title=Madhur: Hard-hitting movie again! - Bollywood.com News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://in.news.yahoo.com/6-unforgettable-hard-hitting-films-madhur-bhandarkar-134022937.html|title=6 unforgettable hard-hitting films of Madhur Bhandarkar}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;"
|-
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes
|-
| 2021
| ''India Lockdown''
|Director
|Filming<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.republicworld.com/amp/entertainment-news/bollywood-news/madhur-bhandarkars-new-film-india-lockdown-goes-on-floors.html|date=23 January 2021|title=Madhur Bhandarkar's new film 'India Lockdown' goes on floors|access-date=23 January 2021|work=Republic World|language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| 2017
| ''[[Indu Sarkar]]''
|Director
|
|-
| 2015
| ''[[Calendar Girls (2015 film)|Calendar Girls]]''
|Director
|
|-
| 2012
| ''[[Heroine (2012 film)|Heroine]]''
|Director
|
|-
| 2011
| ''[[Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji]]''
|Director
|
|-
| 2009
| ''[[Jail (2009 film)|Jail]]''
|Director, co-Writer
|
|-
| 2008
| ''[[Fashion (2008 film)|Fashion]]''
| Director, Writer (Story & Screenplay), producer
| Nominated-[[Filmfare Award for Best Director]] Nominated-[[Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay]] Nominated-[[Screen Award for Best Story]] Nominated-[[IIFA Award for Best Director]] Nominated-[[IIFA Award for Best Story]] Nominated-[[Stardust Award for Film of the Year|Stardust Award for Best Film]] Nominated-[[Stardust Award for Dream Director|Stardust Award for Best Director]]
|-
| 2007
| ''[[Traffic Signal (film)|Traffic Signal]]''
|Director, Writer (Dialogue, Screenplay & Story)
|[[National Film Award for Best Director]]
|-
| 2006
| ''[[Corporate (2006 film)|Corporate]]''
|Director, Writer (Screenplay)
|Case Study for ''[[IIM Ahmedabad]]''
|-
| 2005
| ''[[Page 3 (film)|Page 3]]''
|Director, Writer (Dialogue)
|[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film]] Nominated-Filmfare Award for Best Director
|-
| 2004
| ''[[Aan: Men at Work]]''
|Director, Writer (Dialogue & Story)
|
|-
| 2003
| ''[[Satta (film)|Satta]]''
|Director, Writer (Dialogue & Story)
|Won '''All India Human Rights Association Award'''
|-
| 2001
| ''[[Chandni Bar]]''
|Director, writer
|[[National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues]]
|-
| 1999
| ''[[Trishakti]]''
|Director
|
|-
| 1995
|''[[Rangeela (1995 film)|Rangeela]]''
|Actor
|
|}

==Television==
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Serial !!Channel
|-
|[[Specials @ 10]]||[[Sony Entertainment Television (India)|Sony TV]]
|}

==Awards==
* 2016: [[Padma Shri]], the [[Indian honours system|fourth highest civilian]] award, by the [[Government of India]].<ref name="civilian"/>
* [[National Film Awards]]
** 2007: [[National Film Award for Best Directing|Best Direction]]: ''[[Traffic Signal (film)|Traffic Signal]]''<ref>[http://hindu.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2008061159891100.htm&date=2008/06/11/&prd=th& ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’ best popular film]</ref>
* [[Sophia Awards]] at Syracuse International Film Festival 2014.<ref>{{cite news|title=Madhur Bhandarkar honoured with Sophia Award in New York|url=http://news.biharprabha.com/2014/10/madhur-bhandarkar-honoured-with-sophia-award-in-new-york/|access-date=12 October 2014|agency=Indo-Asian News Service|publisher=news.biharprabha.com|date=12 October 2014}}</ref>
* Conferred with the prestigious British honour - the Creative Spirit and Visionary Director's Award for 2013-14 - at the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]], London, UK<ref>{{cite news|title=Bhandarkar honoured at the House of Commons|url=http://htnews.in/htsportal/article/Bhandarkar-honoured-at-the-House-of-Commons/5956227/|access-date=12 October 2014|work=Hindustan Times|date=8 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216152700/http://htnews.in/htsportal/article/Bhandarkar-honoured-at-the-House-of-Commons/5956227/|archive-date=16 February 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* State of Maharashtra conferred Bhandarkar with the Raj Kapoor Smriti Award for contribution to Indian cinema.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/madhur-bhandarkar-to-receive-raj-kapoor-smriti-awards/|title=Madhur Bhandarkar to receive Raj Kapoor Smriti Awards|date=2014-08-05|website=The Indian Express|access-date=2016-03-11}}</ref>

==Achievements==

===International awards===

* ''[[Chandni Bar]]'', Best Film at ''[[Zimbabwe]]'' International Film Festival 2003 and Technical Award for Best Background Music Score at ''Moscow'' International Film Festival 2003.
* ''[[Page 3 (film)|Page 3]]'', Official Selection at the Raindance Film Festival, ''London'' 2006 and IFFLA Los Angeles 2006. ''[[Corporate (2006 film)|Corporate]]'', Official Selection at the ''[[Berlin]]'' Asia-Pacific Film Festival 2006.
* ''Fashion'', Official Selection at the 31st Moscow International Film Festival 2009, Festival de Festivals, St.Petersburg 2009 and ''[[Norway]]'' Bollywood Festival 2009.
* Retrospective of Page 3, Traffic Signal and Fashion with Russian Sub-Titles held by the Ministry of Culture, Russia and SOVEXPORTFILM in Moscow 2009.
* Retrospective of Chandni Bar, Page 3, Corporate, Traffic Signal, Fashion and Jail at the 33rd Cairo International Film Festival 2009.
* In 2009 he was awarded the Best Director for his Outstanding Contribution to Indian Cinema by the Ministry of Culture, Russia.
* A retrospective of five films made by the filmmaker were showcased at the 33rd Cairo International Film Festival in Egypt from 10–20 November 2009. The films included Chandni Bar, Page3, Corporate, Traffic Signal and Fashion. Bhandarkar was present for the International event.

===Other awards===

* Bhandarkar received the Society Leading Lights Leadership Award in March 2017.<ref>[https://www.bizasialive.com/star-studded-society-leadership-awards-2017/]</ref>
* Mayor of Mumbai – Excellency Award (2006)
* Kalaranjani Awards – (2005)
* Kalakar Awards for Best Director (2007) for [[Corporate (2006 film)|''Corporate'']]<ref name=kalakar>{{cite web|url=http://kalakarawards.co/images/listofawardees.pdf |title=About The Kalakar Awards - Kalakarawards |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425155216/http://kalakarawards.co/images/listofawardees.pdf |archive-date=25 April 2012 }}</ref>
* Pride of Nation Award
* Kesari Gaurav Sanman
* Lions Gold Award (2005–06) (2008–09)
* IMPPA Awards
* Asian Film Foundation Award (2008)
* Farsa Award (2009)
* Jury Special Salute - Mirchi Music Awards (2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bollywoodhelpline.com/gallery/events/madhur-bhandarkar-at-mirchi-music-award-jury/0|title=Madhur Bhandarkar at Mirchi Music Award Jury Bollywood Helpline|website=bollywoodhelpline.com|access-date=2016-03-11}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{IMDb name|id=1055105|name=Madhur Bhandarkar}}

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