Cinesprint - May 2015

Madhur Bhandarkar worked in a video cassette
library in Khar, a suburb of Mumbai. This gave him
access to a large collection of movies and he studied
film-making through it. After trying his skills with
small time filmmakers as an assistant, Bhandarkar
landed up as an assistant to Ram Gopal Varma.
He even played his first cameo in
his 1995 film Rangeela where he
was the associate director to Ram
Gopal Varma. A couple of years later
he made his directorial debut with
Trishakti which took more than three
years to make and released in 1999.
He made his directorial debut with
Trishakti and went on to direct several
critical and commercially successful
films. The drama film Chandni Bar
(2001), won him the National Film
Award for Best Film on Social Issues.
Bhandarkar received the National
Film Awards for theBest Feature Film
and Best Director for Page 3 (2005)
and Traffic Signal(2007) respectively.
Fashion (2008) garnered him several
accolades including Filmfare Awards
nominations for Best Director and
Best Screenplay.
Also recently, National Film
Archive of India (NFAI) which falls
under Ministry of Information &
Broadcasting, Government of India
preserved all the films of renowned Indian Film-
Maker Madhur Bhandarkar. Chandni Bar, Page-
3, Corporate, Traffic Signal, Fashion and Jail, are
all the films of the realistic film-maker which will
now find space in Government’s Archival data for
Indian Films. He is a great devotee of the Hindu
National Film
Archive of India
(NFAI) which falls
under Ministry
of Information
& Broadcasting,
Government of
India preserved
all the films
of renowned
Indian Film-
Maker Madhur
Bhandarkar.
God Siddhivinayak and has been walking from his
house in Khar, Mumbai to the temple for the past
16 years on every Tuesday. According to him, the
film Corporate was his most difficult film as people
in corporate world would shun him after he bared
Page 3 culture in his earlier film.
In most of his films, Bhandarkar’s
protagonist is female. (Tabu in
Chandni Bar, Raveena Tandon in
Satta, Konkona Sen Sharma in Page 3,
Bipasha Basu in Corporate, Priyanka
Chopra in Fashion and Kareena
Kapoor in Heroine.) The exception
here being Neil Nitin Mukesh, who
was cast as the protagonist in the
movie Jail. He has also depicted gay
characters in his movies like Page 3,
Traffic Signal and Fashion.
Madhur has been honoured with
Gangasharan Singh Award by
HRD Ministry of govt of India. He
awarded a number of awards both
at national and international level
for shaping the industry for making
some really good and worthy
movies. All his movies are now being
secured by National Film Archive of
India (NFAI), which is an important
body of Ministry of Information &
Broadcasting, Government of India.
After his movie Corporate, he is even invited at
various management colleges to deliver lecture on
different corporate issues.
“
After discussing many sensitive issues through his films,
Madhur Bhandarkar is now busy with his next project Calendar
Girls which discusses about the problems faced by the
upcoming models in film and fashion industry. He has been bold
in elevating and narrating the sensitive elements with utmost
interest and attention.
In most of his films, Bhandarkar’s protagonist is female. (Tabu in
Chandni Bar, Raveena Tandon in Satta, Konkona Sen Sharma in
Page 3, Bipasha Basu in Corporate, Priyanka Chopra in Fashion
and Kareena Kapoor in Heroine).
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