Lalit Vachani

Lalit Vachani is an Indian documentary filmmaker.

Lalit Vachani
OccupationFilmmaker
WebsiteIMDb

Life

Vachani studied at the St. Stephen's College, Delhi University and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

He was a visiting lecturer at the Mass Communication Research Centre in Delhi from 1990 to 1998. He also taught courses on film production at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the Amherst College. He has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Media, Culture and History at the New York University in 1999,[1] and a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute and the Lichtenberg-Kolleg in 2011–12.[2][3]

Vachani's films have received support from the Soros/Sundance Documentary Foundation, the Jan Vrijman Fund and the India Foundation for the Arts.[1]

Works
  • Recasting Selves (2019, 80 minutes).[4]
  • An Ordinary Election (2015, 125 minutes).[5]
  • Tales from Napa (2010, 26 minutes).[6]
  • The Salt Stories (2008, 84 minutes), Winner of the Best documentary film, MIAAC 2009 and the 2nd prize in Film South Asia Kathmandu, 2009.[7][8][9]
  • In Search of Gandhi (2007, 52 minutes), Winner of the EBU Special Golden Link award, 2008.[10][11]
  • Rebuilding with Richie (2006, 27 minutes)[12]
  • Natak Jari Hai (The Play Goes on, 2005, 83min.).[13][14]
  • The Chhara Projects (2003, 63 minutes).[12]
  • The Men in the Tree (2002, 98 minutes).[15][16][17][18][19]
  • The Starmaker (1997, 74 minutes)[20][21]
  • The Academy (1995, 52 minutes).[12]
  • The Boy in the Branch (1993, 27 minutes), produced for the Channel 4 television, U. K.[22][23][18]

References
  1. "Lalit Vachani: About". lalitvachani.com. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  2. "Lalit Vachani". Max Planck Institute. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  3. "Lalit Vachani". Lichtenberg-Kolleg. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  4. ′Recasting Selves′, The Seventh Art
  5. ′Not an Ordinary Film′, The Hindu
  6. Tales from Napa, lalitvachani.com
  7. The Salt Stories, lalitvachani.com
  8. Sharma, Kalpana (26 December 2009). "The Other Half: Will anything change?". The Hindu. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  9. Tiwari, Pragya (16 October 2010). "That Land that Forgot Mahatma". Tehelka. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  10. In Search of Gandhi, lalitvachani.com
  11. Punjabi, Dimple. "In Search of Gandhi (documentary) - review". culturazzi.org. Archived from the original on 5 November 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  12. Other films, lalitvachani.com
  13. The Play Goes on, lalitvachani.com
  14. Malik, Bela (16 September 2006). "The Show Must Go On" (PDF). Economic and Political Weekly: 3926–3927. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  15. The Men in the Tree, lalitvachani.com
  16. Deshpande, Sudhanva (26 October 2002). "Breeding little fascists". Frontline. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  17. "The Men in the Tree - review". Ekta: South Asian progressive network. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  18. Kumar 2004, p. 184.
  19. Nussbaum 2008, p. 182.
  20. The Starmaker, lalitvachani.com
  21. Jain, Madhu (29 September 1997). "Behind the Curtains". India Today. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  22. The Boy in the Branch, lalitvachani.com
  23. The Boy in the Branch - Excerpts from Press reviews, lalitvachani.com

Bibliography
  • Kumar, Amitava (2004). Husband of a Fanatic. Penguin Books India. ISBN 0143031899.
  • Nussbaum, Martha Craven (2008). The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-03059-6.


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