Bhavna Talwar

Bhavna Talwar (Hindi: भावना तलवार) is an Indian journalist turned film director. Her debut film, Dharm (2007), won the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration at the 2007 National Film Award.[1] Currently she is working on Happi, which is expected to be released sometime 2015.

Career

She started her career as a journalist at Asian Age, covering film, theatre, fashion, and later worked for over eight years as an assistant director with an Ad film company.[2] She was nominated as agency producer for the "Rain - Reebok" commercial at the Cannes Ad Fest.[3]

Her first film Dharm (2007), starring Pankaj Kapur and Supriya Pathak, premiered as the closing film at the World Cinema Section at the Cannes Film Festival 2007.[4]

She created a controversy recently by claiming that her film Dharm (2007) should have been selected as India's official Foreign Language Film submission for the 80th Academy Awards, but was rejected in favor of Eklavya: The Royal Guard (2007) because of the personal connections of the latter film's director and producer. She filed a complaint in the Bombay High Court in which she accused the Indian selection committee of bias, but later dropped it because the Foreign Language Film submission deadline had already passed.[5]

Awards

Karmaveer Puraskaar Noble Laureates,2008

References

  1. ↑ "55th NATIONAL FILM AWARDS FOR THE YEAR 2007" (PDF). Press Information Bureau (Govt. of India).
  2. ↑ Bhavna Talwar Profile Archived 2008-02-28 at the Wayback Machine. Bhavna Talwar on her film Dharm
  3. ↑ Bhavna Talwar, Creative Director Archived 2008-10-06 at the Wayback Machine. wsg pictures.
  4. ↑ Cannes World Premiere for Bhavna Talwar’s Dharm screenindia, The Indian Express Group.
  5. ↑ "India's entry to Oscars caught in a legal tangle". Reuters India. 2007-09-29. Archived from the original on 21 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-14.


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