FILM DIRECTOR

Kalpana Lajmi

1954 - 2018

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Kalpana Lajmi (1954–2018) was an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. Lajmi was an independent filmmaker working more on realistic, low-budget films, which are known in India as parallel cinema. Her films were often woman-oriented. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kalpana Lajmi has received more than 496,922 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Kalpana Lajmi is the 2,007th most popular film director, the 1,488th most popular biography from India and the 62nd most popular Indian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Kalpana Lajmi ranks 2,007 out of 2,041. Before her are Rohit Shetty, Vikram Bhatt, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Jamie Babbit, Josh Cooley, and Vishal Bhardwaj. After her are Raghava Lawrence, Jonathan Levine, Kabir Khan, Hossein Rajabian, Deeyah Khan, and Amanda Kernell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Kalpana Lajmi ranks 754. Before her are Scott May, Thomas DiLorenzo, Willie Thorne, David Wilkie, Mark Foley, and Frank Gray. After her are Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Mary Hanna, and Charles Fernandez. Among people deceased in 2018, Kalpana Lajmi ranks 621. Before her are Meena Alexander, Victoria Marinova, Brian Christopher, Fazlullah, Labinot Harbuzi, and Daniela Samulski. After her are Rouzan al-Najjar, Liam Miller, Jonathan Cantwell, Dave Dave, Rasual Butler, and Ray Emery.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kalpana Lajmi ranks 1,488 out of 1,861. Before her are Shilpa Shirodkar (1969), Krishna Poonia (1977), Arundathi Nag (1956), Shubha Mudgal (1959), Vishal Bhardwaj (1965), and Keerthy Suresh (1992). After her are Pooja Bedi (1970), Kartik Aaryan (1990), Rana Daggubati (1984), Esha Gupta (1985), Floyd Cardoz (1960), and Nandana Sen (1967).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Kalpana Lajmi ranks 62. Before her are Ketan Mehta (1952), Puri Jagannadh (1966), Rohit Shetty (1973), Vikram Bhatt (1969), Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (1963), and Vishal Bhardwaj (1965). After her are Raghava Lawrence (1976), Kabir Khan (1968), Remo D'Souza (1974), Meghna Gulzar (1973), Imtiaz Ali (1971), and AR Murugadoss (1974).

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Filmography

The Churning
Director
A veterinarian, Dr. Rao, makes a visit to a village, where he intends to commence a co-operative society dairy for the betterment of the rural people. The film is set against the backdrop of the White Revolution of India (Operation Flood) which started in 1970. It was entirely crowdfunded by 500,000 farmers who donated Rs. 2 each.
Oct 1o 19766.9 / 10
Rudaali
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Shanichari is a beautiful girl born in lower cast and her life is full of sufferings because of lower cast, poor finances, lost parents, drunken husband, mischievous son. The title refers to a custom in some parts of Rajasthan—where aristocratic women were long kept secluded and veiled—of hiring professional women mourners on the death of a male relative, a rudaali (pronounced “roo-dah-lee”—literally, a female “weeper”) to publicly express the grief that family members, constrained by their high social status, were not permitted to display—or at times, perhaps did not feel. Underwritten by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) and Doordarshan (Indian national television) and based on a short story by famed Bengali author Mahasweta Devi—whose tales often focus on the travails of low-caste women.
Jan 11o 19934.8 / 10
The Market Place
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The denizens of a brothel deal with internal drama, as well as pressure from greedy land developers and an anti-sex work politician to leave town.
Feb 25o 19837.1 / 10