Rajan Khosa

Rajan Khosa is an Indian writer-director-producer who has worked between the UK, Europe and India for much of his career.

His most noteworthy film, Dance of the Wind (1997),[1] starring Kitu Gidwani in the lead role, won many national and International film awards, including Audience Award London Film Festival 1997, Public Prize & Best Actress Festival of 3 Continents 1997, Gold Plaque Chicago Festival 1998, Critics Week Venice Film Festival 1997, NETPAC Award Rotterdam Film Festival 1998, and Best Director British Asian Film Festival 1998.[2][3] The film was theatrically released in twenty five countries in 1998-2001 [4][5] However, it was commercially released in India, only in February 2008.[6]

His latest film Gattu, was awarded by the international jury at the 2012 Berlinale[7] and won praise and Special Mention - Best Film: Grand Prix of the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk at Berlinale in 2012. It was released in India by Rajshri Productions and sold worldwide by All Rights Entertainment.

Rajan was also creative director for 52 episodes of kid's animation Selfie With Bajrangi which appeared on Amazon in 2017.

Biography

Rajan Khosa started his professional education at Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, and Royal College of Art (RCA) London and also spend a few years at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad[8][9]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Filmography Rajan Khosa at nytimes.com.
  2. ↑ Dance of the wind Awards at IMDB
  3. ↑ Dance of the Wind at NFDC
  4. ↑ Dance with the Wind Preview radiosargam.com.
  5. ↑ Release info imdb.com.
  6. ↑ award-winning movie hits Indian screens Boolywood News, bollywoodworld.ca, 1 February 2008.
  7. ↑ Rajan Khosa’s Gattu Awarded at Berlin DearCinema, DearCinema.com, 18 February 2012.
  8. ↑ Profile rajankhosa.com, Official website.
  9. ↑ "Gattu". Children's Film Society, India CFSI. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
  10. ↑ Awards Wisdom Tree at imdb.com.
  11. ↑ Rajan Khosa Awards imbd.com.
  12. ↑ IANS. "Indian film Gattu wins special mention at 62nd Berlinale". India Today. Retrieved 29 February 2012.

Further reading

KOCIEJOWSKI, Marius. God's Zoo: Artists, Exiles, Londoners (Carcanet, 2014) contains a biographical chapter "The Burning of a Thread - Rajan Khosa, Film Director".

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