Legacy of A Painter

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Award winner at Thrissur, the largely untold story of Jangarh Singh Shyam - the genius Gond Pradhan artist from central India. Directed by Nutan Manmohan | 2018 Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra Nutan Manmohan began as a journalist with TV Today’s Newstrack and was Vice President, News and Current Affairs, Star TV, followed by India Bureau Chief for Focus Asia Star World. Her children’s series Zara Hat Ke received the Best Children’s Programme Award at the Pinnacle TV Awards; her film A Second Hand Life the Best Environment Film at Vatavaran Festival and The Last Flight the Wild Wing OBE Award in UK. Rajiv Mehrotra is the founding Managing Trustee and Commissioning Editor of PSBT - his films have won more than 300 awards worldwide, including 32 in 31 years from the President of India. His nine books are available in 50 languages and editions. He serves as the Trustee/ Secretary of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of HH the Dalai Lama (For more, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_Mehrotra). PSBT was a not-for-profit that nurtured and supported the production of independent documentary films by a diversity of filmmakers from across India. Over two decades, it produced close to 700 documentary films, each film averaging two film festival selections and every second film an award. (Read more here: www.psbt.org, https://www.civilsocietyonline.com/cinema/psbt-story-630-films-230-awards-400-filmmakers/, https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/OnGlobalScreens-Article.pdf, https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/in-the-channels-of-trust/article3942019.ece, https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PSBT-Real-Films-on-Real-India.jpg) PSBT was led by some of India's iconic film personalities - Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Sharmila Tagore, with Fali Nariman and Kiran Karnik. From its inception in 2000, Tulika Srivastava was a key member of the Team, joined in 2005, by Ridhima Mehra. Credits Associate Director, Researcher: Vishwa Maurya Script Writer: Nutan Manmohan Line Producer: Ashok Sharma Cinematographer: Ram Babu Gupta Sound Recordist: Parvesh Kumar Editor: Masood Altamash Music Composers: Sudhir Rikhari, Milind Trivedi Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with Doordarshan India. http://www.psbt.org/; http://www.ddindia.gov.in/ For festival and screening queries, please write to us at [email protected] Last updated: June 2020