Onir - The Famous Bollywood Director and Producer
Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 11:36AM Onir - The Famous Bollywood Director and Producer
By Samit Nandi
Onir was born in Samchi, a small town in Bhutan on the 30th April, 1969. After his schooling in Bhutan he came to Kolkatta(India) and graduated as a student of Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University in 1989. While in University he was also learning German, Russian , Bengali, and Tamil. Apart from it he joined the Film studies course at Chitrabani, Kolkatta.
In 1991 he co-directed his first documentary film at a work shop organized by Max Muller Bhavan and Chitrabani in Kolkatta. The documentary film was called “Glimpses of College Street”. In the same year he was offered scholarship to train at an advanced editing course with SFB/TTC Berlin.
Returning from Berlin he made his first independent documentary (it was also produced by him). ‘Fallen hero’ (1992) was a documentary, which was a portrait of an ageing painter Bijon Chaudry and his dilemma with the changing political scenario in Bengal. Soon afterwards he shifted base to Mumbai to work as a freelance editor, music album producer, corporate filmmaker, etc. all the while trying to move towards films, which was his ultimate goal.
In 1999 he got his first experience with on the job filmmaking. He was the film editor, song designer, and song director of the film “Daman” directed by Kalpana Lajmi. This is where he met Sanjay Suri. Sanjay’s encouragement made Onir start working on his scripts. Five years, five scripts and no producers! Finally in 2004 Sanjay and Onir decided to produce Onir’s first film “My brother Nikhil” which was to become the first main stream film that addressed the issue of homosexuality apart from dealing with issues of Human rights and HIV AIDS. Yash Raj released this film on 25th March, 2005.
The film fetched many international awards…
• Saathi Rainbow film festival , Kolkatta (Best director)
• Audience choice award, Leceister (UK)
• 2nd audience choice award, Hamburg LGBT film festival
• 2nd audience choice award, Bremen LGBT film festival
• Winner Jury Award, Best Film Montreal (Image+ Nation film festival)
• Winner Audience choice award, Best Film Montreal
• (Image+ Nation film festival)
• 20th Milan International Lesbian & Gay Film and Queer Culture
• Festival (12th June, 2006…. Best Film Audience choice award)
• ICASA 2005 Film Festival - Sbuja, Nigeria: The Mobilization and Critical Resistance Award
• Triangle Media Group award: By David Flint as one of the top achievers in Global Mainstream Media in the category of Film, Theatre and Drama (Dec 2006)
In Jan 2006 he started to shoot his second feature film ‘Bas Ek Pal’ with the cast of Juhi Chawla, Urmila Matondkar, Jimmy Sheirgill, Rehaan Engineer and Sanjay Suri. The film was released on the 15th of Sept 2006.
In Feb 2008, he started shooting for ‘Sorry Bhai!’ featuring Shabana Azmi, Boman Irani, Sanjay Suri, Chitrangda and Sharman Joshi under the home production Anticlock Films Pvt. Ltd.
For more details about him, his upcoming projects and complete details of film Sorry Bhai! visit the following sites
http://filmsdunia.blogspot.com/
http://filmsdunia.blogspot.com/2008/11/sorry-bhai-2008-film-preview.html
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