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
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
- Oruththi (2003)
- Manusangada (2017)
References
- ↑ Archived copy. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
- ↑ Documentary maker from Chennai bags national award. Times of India(30 March 2016).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Thavil Doyen's Lost Beats Come Alive(2 April 2016).
- ↑ Thavil recitals from across the Palk Strait. The Hindu(3 April 2016).
- ↑ AMSHAN KUMAR - Public Service Broadcasting Trust.Template:Dead link
- ↑ IFFI. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- ↑ International Film Festival of India-2003.
- ↑ About 'Oruthi'(2003-07-30).Template:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore
- ↑ 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(2001-11-11).Template:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore
- ↑ Charmed by celluloid. The Hindu(3 March 2011).
- ↑ The thavil that united Tamils. The Hindu(3 April 2016).
- ↑ Manusangada screened at IFFI. The Hindu(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(29 November 2017).