Brahmanand S. Siingh
Brahmanand S. Siingh or Brahmanand Singh (born 3 May 1965) is a national-award winning filmmaker and a vastly published author based out of Mumbai, India. He is best known for his films like "Kaagaz Ki Kashti", a biopic on Jagjit Singh and his feature-length documentary on R. D. Burman, "Pancham Unmixed: Mujhe Chalte Jaana Hai". He has also won the REX-Karmaveer-Chakra Awards, in partnership with the United Nations, for transforming lives through social impact projects and ideas of hope. Siingh's latest feature project, "Jhalki" is a feature film that attempts to create  public awareness of the global problem of child trafficking and child labor on a large scale through an engaging drama. He takes people through his discoveries and insights from his craft and worldview, into a range of unique experiential and rewarding self-discoveries for the viewers. Through his films, his speeches and workshops, consciously and strategically, lowers the normally revved up mind speed, he opens lives and makes them see all those delightful details, feel the depths of their experiences, and sense the exciting unseen things of the daily life and work in a special way. Early life and education . Brahmanand S Siingh grew up in Purnia, Bihar. Later he moved to St Xavier's College Ranchi and eventually to Kolkata University for his English Literature Masters. His journeys into cinema, however, started within a year of his moving to Mumbai in 1993. Career. As a writer / author. In the late 80s, starting off while still in college, Brahmanand wrote extensively on Cinema, Literature, Art, Music and other human stories of interest and excitement to him for practically all the prominent newspapers and magazines of its time for the next 15 years: Telegraph, Statesman, Times of India, Hindu, Indian Express , The Independent, Pioneer, Mid-Day, Afternoon Dispatch & Courier, India Today, Gentleman, Debonair, Frontline and many others and contributed chapters to international Books, alongside anthologies and collection of poems in India and abroad. Further, he extended himself to countless prominent digital platforms during the dotcom boom of the early millennium. Brahmanand has over 3000 published articles and features, essays, poems and short stories in print and on the web, spread over one and half decades of the active writing phase. He has also authored three beautiful biographical books, Strings Of Eternity, Diamonds & Rust and Lightness Of Being. As a filmmaker. The  late nineties onwards, filmmaking started gaining precedence over writing and since then he has made many biographical documentaries, independent and smaller films. Brahmanand S Siingh, a National-Award winning filmmaker, has been vastly recognized for his experiential and inspirational biopics on iconic legends like RD Burman and Jagjit Singh (Pancham Unmixed & Kaagaz Ki Kashti), movies that have acquired a cult status, in addition to social and emotional cause based films like Jhalki, a story of hope, courage, compassion and self-belief against the backdrop of a story of lost childhood & human trafficking. Many other films like Riding on a Sunbeam , Through our Eyes, Ashgari Bai, Ragpickers, Uncaging the Body and A Burden of Love continue to be popular and loved. He has been invited to be on the jury, of the film and script selection committee of various international film festivals and award platforms. He also conducts filmmaking and scriptwriting workshops in film festivals and institutes. In-the-pipeline projects like Surmayee Shaam on father-son bonding against an Alzheimer's backdrop, Rumi’s Secret with Rumi as a backdrop, The Dream Teller, with an occult world backdrop of spiritual communication and practical life; Kindness Series, Legacy Series and well -told Biopics Series of iconic figures along with many other films. Filmography. As a director and/or producer.