FILM DIRECTOR

Mani Kaul

1944 - 2011

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Mani Kaul (25 December 1944 – 6 July 2011) was an Indian director of Hindi films and a figure in Indian parallel cinema. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) where he was a student of Ritwik Ghatak and later became a teacher. Starting his career with Uski Roti (1969), which won him the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie, he went on to win four of them in all. He won the National Film Award for Best Direction in 1974 for Duvidha and later the National Film Award for his documentary film Siddheshwari in 1989. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mani Kaul is the 2,044th most popular film director (down from 1,854th in 2024), the 1,378th most popular biography from India (down from 1,156th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Indian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Mani Kaul ranks 2,044 out of 2,041. Before him are Lisa Langseth, Greg Yaitanes, Volodymyr Tykhyi, Destin Daniel Cretton, Casey Neistat, and Etan Cohen. After him are Rawson Marshall Thurber, Richard Taylor, Prabhu Deva, Sean Gullette, Roya Sadat, and Reza Mirkarimi.

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Among people born in 1944, Mani Kaul ranks 745. Before him are Sherwood C. Spring, Willie Morgan, John Komlos, Jan Schakowsky, Muzaffar Ali, and Roscoe Orman. After him are Cyril Knowles, Emanuel Cleaver, and Graeme Pollock. Among people deceased in 2011, Mani Kaul ranks 534. Before him are Jan Marek, Alexander Galimov, John Dye, Alexander Karpovtsev, Sunday Bada, and Seth Putnam. After him are Leon Botha, Olubayo Adefemi, Mohammed Nabbous, Robert Dietrich, Tim Hetherington, and Theyab Awana.

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In India

Among people born in India, Mani Kaul ranks 1,378 out of 1,861. Before him are White Town (1966), Lillete Dubey (1953), Kunjarani Devi (1968), Sulakshana Pandit (1954), Meena Alexander (1951), and Rita Bhaduri (1955). After him are Mohammad Azharuddin (1963), Indu Jain (1936), Rahul Bose (1967), Soha Ali Khan (1978), Saina Nehwal (1990), and Dinesh D'Souza (1961).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Mani Kaul ranks 52. Before him are Rajkumar Hirani (1962), Rituparno Ghosh (1963), Ram Gopal Varma (1962), Prakash Jha (1952), Kiran Rao (1973), and Muzaffar Ali (1944). After him are Prabhu Deva (1973), Farhan Akhtar (1974), Anurag Kashyap (1972), Ashutosh Gowariker (1964), Kalpana Lajmi (1954), and Rajkumar Santoshi (1956).

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