Amshan Kumar | |
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Born |
Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu |
Occupation(s) | Film director and Writer |
Years active | 1995 – present |
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.
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]
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Amshan Kumar | |
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Born |
Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu |
Occupation(s) | Film director and Writer |
Years active | 1995 – present |
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.
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]
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