Balu Mahendra
Balanathan Benjamin Mahendran( 20 May 1939 13 February 2014), commonly known as Balu Mahendra, was a legendary cinematographer, director, screenwriter and film editor who worked predominantly in Tamil cinema.
Born in a Eelam Tamil family, he developed a passion for photography and literature at a young age.
After witnessing the shoot of David Lean's" The Bridge on the River Kwai"( 1957) during a school trip in Sri Lanka, he was drawn towards filmmaking.
He graduated from the London University and started his career as a draughtsman with the Sri Lankan Government.
In 1966, he moved to India and gained admission to the Film and Television Institute of India( FTII) to pursue a course in motion picture photography.
Upon completion of his diploma, he entered Malayalam cinema as a cinematographer in the early 1970s.
After working in over 20 films as a cinematographer, Mahendra made his directorial debut in 1977 with the Kannada film" Kokila".
Since then, he directed over 20 films in a span of 36 years.
Along with P. Bharathiraja and J. Mahendran, he is regarded as a trendsetter in Tamil cinema.
During the tail end of his career, he established a film school in Chennai, which offers courses in cinematography, direction and acting.
Following a brief phase of poor health, Mahendra died of cardiac arrest in February 2014.
Widely regarded as an auteur, Mahendra usually scripted and edited his films apart from shooting them.
He was the recipient of six National Film Awards( including two for Best Cinematography), five Filmfare Awards South and several state government awards.
W. Augustus Barratt
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Sathi Leelavathi (1936 film)
Sathi Leelavathi  is a 1936 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Ellis R. Dungan, and produced by A. N. Marudachalam Chettiar.
It is based on S. S. Vasan's novel of the same name, which was serialised in 1934 in the magazine "Ananda Vikatan".
The film has an ensemble cast, including M. K. Radha, T. S. Balaiah, M. G. Ramachandran, M. V. Mani, M. K. Mani, P. Nammalvar, T. N. Lakshmana Rao, M. R. Gnanambal, Santhakumari, M. S. Murugesan and N. S. Krishnan.
In "Sathi Leelavathi", Krishnamurthy, a wealthy Madras-based man is lured into drinking by his friend Ramanathan and brings misery on himself.
Believing that he murdered his other friend Parasuraman in a drunken stupor, Krishnamurthy flees to Ceylon to live anonymously; his wife Leelavathi and daughter Lakshmi are reduced to poverty.
Although Chettiar initially wanted to produce a film version of the Madurai Original Boy's Company (MOBC)
theatre troupe play "Pathi Bhakthi", another film version was already being made without him.
Madras Kandaswamy Mudaliar, who wrote the MOBC play, later told Chettiar about Vasan's novel, which had the same storyline.
After Chettiar obtained the rights to make a film version of the novel, Mudaliar began writing the screenplay of "Sathi Leelavathi".
It was Dungan's directorial debut and the film-acting debuts of Radha, Balaiah, Ramachandran and K. A. Thangavelu; all except Thangavelu were theatre actors associated with the MOBC. "
Sathi Leelavathi" was the first film on which Krishnan worked, and his second release.
The film was shot primarily in Madras at Vel Pictures Studio.
Cinematography was handled by D. T. Telang and V. J. Shave, and Dungan co-edited the film with Sircar.
"Sathi Leelavathi" explores themes such as temperance, social reform, selfless service and the plight of labourers.
It was one of the earliest Tamil films which was the subject of a court case involving copyright violation; the MOBC accused its filmmakers of plagiarising the "Pathi Bhakthi" play.
The case was resolved when Vasan testified that both the play and the novel were based on the British writer Ellen Wood's 1860 novel "Danesbury House", therefore neither party could claim originality. "
Sathi Leelavathi" was released on 28 March 1936.
The film was a commercial success, and made Dungan a sought-after director; several features he introduced in "Sathi Leelavathi" became staples of Tamil cinema, including strict discipline, shooting by schedule, camera mobility, cabaret dances and less-theatrical acting.
No complete print of the film is known to survive, making it a partially lost film, but what remains is preserved in the West Virginia State Archives.
Murdered Innocence
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Banaz: A Love Story
Banaz: A Love Story is a 2012 documentary film directed and produced by Deeyah Khan.
The film chronicles the life and death of Banaz Mahmod, a young British- Iraqi woman of Kurdish origin killed in 2006 in South London on the orders of her family in a so- called honour killing.
The film received its UK premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in London September 2012.
Deeyah Khan
Deeyah Khan( born 7 August 1977) is a Norwegian British documentary film director and human rights activist of Punjabi/ Pashtun descent.
Deeyah is a two- time Emmy Award winner and the recipient of two BAFTA nominations.
She has made four documentaries to date, all have been shown on ITV in the UK as part of its Exposure series.
Her debut film as director and producer," Banaz A Love Story"( 2012) about the “ honour ” killing of a British- Kurdish woman won an Emmy, Peabody and received a British Royal Television Society nomination.
Her second documentary,, nominated for a BAFTA, Grierson and Monte- Carlo Television Festival involved two years interviewing Islamic extremists and convicted terrorists.
Her 2017 documentary was also Bafta-nominated and won an Emmy award for Best International Current Affairs Documentary in 2018 — this film saw Deeyah travel to the United States where she shadowed neo-Nazis at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.
She is the founder and CEO of production company Fuuse, which specializes in documentary films, digital media platforms and content for television broadcasters and live events.
She is also the founder and editor- in- chief of sister- hood Magazine which spotlights the diverse voices of women of Muslim heritage.
In 2016 Khan became the inaugural UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Artistic Freedom and Creativity.
Sathi Leelavathi (1995 film)
Sathi Leelavathi is a 1995 Tamil language comedy film co-written and directed by Balu Mahendra.
It features Ramesh Aravind, Kalpana and Heera in the lead with Kamal Haasan and Kovai Sarala in supporting roles.
The film was produced by Kamal Haasan, with story by Ananthu and dialogues by Crazy Mohan, with Ilaiyaraaja as music composer.
" Sathi Leelavathi" was a commercial success and was remade by David Dhawan in Hindi as" Biwi No.1"( 1999) and by Ramesh Aravind himself in Kannada as" Rama Shama Bhama"( 2005).
Simple Agi Ondh Love Story
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The film was remade in Telugu in 2018 as" Idi Naa Love Story" starring Tarun& Oviya.
Hassan Zee
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Question: Which film has the director who was born later, Banaz: A Love Story or Sathi Leelavathi (1995 Film)?
Answer: Banaz: A Love Story