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FILM DIRECTOR

Mani Kaul

1944 - 2011

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Mani Kaul (25 December 1944 – 6 July 2011) was an Indian director of Hindi films and a figure in Indian parallel cinema. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) where he was a student of Ritwik Ghatak and later became a teacher. Starting his career with Uski Roti (1969), which won him the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie, he went on to win four of them in all. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mani Kaul has received more than 301,451 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mani Kaul is the 1,759th most popular film director, the 1,045th most popular biography from India and the 37th most popular Indian Film Director.

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  • 15

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  • 1.42

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  • 3.49

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Mani Kaul ranks 1,759 out of 1,581Before him are Virgil Widrich, Fede Álvarez, Ángeles González-Sinde, Mark Neveldine, Prabhu Deva, and Vidhu Vinod Chopra. After him are Goutam Ghose, Gareth Evans, Prakash Jha, Adam Wingard, Farhan Akhtar, and Alain Gomis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Mani Kaul ranks 643Before him are Doris Matsui, Ed Rendell, Sherwood C. Spring, Mike Oxley, Paul Scully-Power, and Willie Morgan. After him are Cyril Knowles, Emanuel Cleaver, Roscoe Orman, Peter T. King, Jim Gibbons, and Jan Schakowsky. Among people deceased in 2011, Mani Kaul ranks 480Before him are Mario Miranda, Jimmy Adamson, Mark Hatfield, Masanori Sanada, Uche Okafor, and Claudia Heill. After him are Tim Hetherington, Sunday Bada, Theyab Awana, Olubayo Adefemi, Mohammed Nabbous, and Death of Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb.

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In India

Among people born in India, Mani Kaul ranks 1,045 out of 1,493Before him are Ahmed Rushdi (1934), Sabeer Bhatia (1968), Hariharan (1955), Irom Chanu Sharmila (1972), Prabhu Deva (1973), and Mohammad Azharuddin (1963). After him are Goutam Ghose (1950), Ramya Krishnan (1970), Venkatesh (1960), Bhavana (1986), Emraan Hashmi (1979), and Anju Bobby George (1977).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Mani Kaul ranks 37Before him are David Dhawan (1955), Basu Chatterjee (1930), Kiran Rao (1973), Rituparno Ghosh (1963), Ram Gopal Varma (1962), and Prabhu Deva (1973). After him are Goutam Ghose (1950), Prakash Jha (1952), Farhan Akhtar (1974), S. S. Rajamouli (1973), S. Shankar (1963), and Ashutosh Gowariker (1964).

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