Kamal Swaroop Trailers
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Swaroop was born in Kashmir, India. His father was a teacher and palmist, and his mother was a homemaker. The family moved to Ajmer in the Rajasthan state. There he studied biology before moving to Pune in the Maharashtra state, where he studied film directing. He had a brief stint at the Indian Space Research Organisation, where he used Russian fairytales to teach science to children. Following this, he attended filmmaking classes in a remote village in Maharashtra.
Swaroop is best known for directing Om-Dar-Ba-Dar (1988) and Rangbhoomi, for which he has received several awards.
In 1974, Swaroop graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India. His student work met with unusual international acclaim. He continued with postgraduate studies at the Institute.
Swaroop assisted the director Richard Attenborough in the filming of Gandhi (1982).
Most Popular Kamal Swaroop Trailers
Total trailers found: 17
01 December 1982
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence.
01 January 1997
An urban contemporary film about adultery, murder and betrayal in the film noir style. A simple story to which the director imparts a feeling of unrest and disquiet, catching the city in its various moods.
01 January 1976
A stylized version of Vijay Tendulkar’s radical Marathi play chronicling the Peshwa regime in western India, a collective effort of direction and cinematography made by an independent group of young filmmakers.
22 October 2019
At Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest congregation of religious pilgrims, a troupe of theatre actors stage a play based on an origin myth of Hinduism – the churning of the cosmic ocean.
10 August 2012
An old man ventures into the virtual world.
23 February 1988
Om, an adolescent boy living in an Indian village, is good at only one thing: holding his breath for a long time.
29 May 1989
Salim Pasha, a man with a physical disability, is involved in crimes like extortion and robbery with two of his friends Peera and Abdul.
26 January 1989
A music student listens to stories and legends about the birth and evolution of the Khayal form of classical Indian singing.
01 December 2021
MOTHER and DAUGHTER are left alone in the house to navigate the grief of SON’s unnatural disappearance.
27 March 1985
In a poetic hour and a half, director Mani Kaul looks at the ancient art of making pottery from a wide variety of perspectives.
14 October 2017
An attempt to engage with the historical, mythical and the contemporary worlds of the city of Pushkar
01 January 1974
About a thoughtful, lonely child making his own discoveries.
01 January 2006
The idea of determinism and freedom in the Khayal tradition of Hindustani music.
10 November 2013
Rangbhoomi follows Kamal Swaroop as he attempts to trace the contours of Dada Saheb Phalke's life in Varansasi after he withdrew, disillusioned, from the world of cinema and decided to take up theater.
13 December 2015
An observation of the political climate in India leading upto a highly anticipated election.
01 January 2013
Director Kamal Swaroop and a group of students from the Film and Television Institute of India explore the origins and the roots of the founding father of Indian Cinema.
01 January 1994
Dada Saheb Phalke ( 1870 – 1944) the father of Indian film industry & his own eight children. The film traces his life & career through the reminiscence of his surviving children, family photographs and his films.
